1st time 1/4 mile experience in Euro

Well lads,

Last night me & Matell went to Willowbank and let our Euro loose on the drag strip!

I was pretty nervous as a 1st timer and made a fool of myself by revving too high and clutch slipping all the way from 1st 2nd to 3rd gear.....got a time of 20sec!!! woohoo!! the worst time of the night I think.

I then tried to beat my previous time & had David ( who has an automatic Euro, hope he will be on the board soon) teach me a few tricks.
2nd time I did a 15.8 OK time I guess. I only did 3 runs as I think I damaged my clutch at the 1st launch.

Matell did extremely well with his 15.5 pass with a near perfect start .

All in all, we had fun guys, with a bit of practice, I think the Euro has the potential to get to low 15s...

practice makes perfect ;)

I'll second baboo's comments on that! It was great fun and I think we both learnt a lot on proper launch technique, and how much of a difference a good launch makes on ones elapsed time.

As both of us were 1/4mile virgins I must say that there's still a lot of practice to be done before confidently being able to nail mid to low 15's on every run, but it's certainly acheivable!

Oh and the strip felt very slippery on stock tyre's, a launch technique use on road surfaces didn't work well on a dedicated strip. My first three runs were low 16's, and on baboo's advice on his last run I did my final run from 2000-2500rpm, slipping the clutch a little to get moving, then dropping it out smoothly and rapidly while quickly feeding on full throttle. That combined with flat shifting acheived the 15.5. With practice I'm sure it'll get lower.

Good Work!

Practice Makes Perfect!

well done guys!! : ) how much did it cost to go do it?

Personally speaking for my 1st 1/4 mile i wanna drive an auto just to get the feel of it

Provided you've already got a helmet it's $34 for as many runs as you want to try to squeeze in. Or abuse your car with ;) as you still have to drive home afterwards!:D

It all depends on your viewpoint.

what sort of terminal speeds are you guys reaching down the quarter?

Any euros into the 14's yet?

Nice work!

Now don't forget to submit your timeslip to the timeslip database baboo. Matell has already done his :)

OK I will!

Terminal speed is 146kph for me.

I punched some figures into an online calculator http://www.geocities.com/MotorCity/4601/hpcalc.html


The result was pretty close to the trap speed of 90 mph (146kph)

Vehicle Weight - 3,085 pounds
Horse Power Estimated - 190 hp
E.T - 14.75
Trap Speed - 92 mph

I wonder if a 14 second pass is possible for a stock euro.

Terminal speed for me was 147.56kph.

Unfortunately I honestly don't think a stock Euro could reach 14sec even with a text book perfect launch.

I agree, even a Stock Euro R can't hit 14 flat...

I'd be happy to go under 15 in my car LOL!... just a few tenths of a second to go LOL!