The Central Ford RS Owners Club Day to JapShow 2012
“Since the last update, it’s been a troublesome few months . Many of the events have been plagued with bad weather and thereby reducing the number of runs we have done.
Big Bang was a total wash out with none of our 5 scheduled runs taking place. X Fest was much the same with only 1 run on Saturday and rain beating us again on Sunday and bank holiday Monday.
Street Nationals was slightly more successful with one run each day but the car was still in the 6’s. We were promised that the good engine would be back from the States ready for the Main Event.
The weather improved for the Classic Ford Show and we experienced a mini heatwave meaning that we managed both of our runs on the Sunday albeit still a 6 second pass. The primary engine has arrived all intact and now it’s just a matter of getting the power plant fitted in time for next weekend at the Main Event.
Main Event was still cursed with the British weather and although we managed a run on Friday, we only had one of our two scheduled runs on Saturday with the last run being cancelled due to racing reaching the 9pm curfew. Sunday was a complete wash out with rain all day and Monday we experienced a repeat of Saturday with only one run and the last one being cancelled. All in all, not the best event to test the engine, although the performance of the car was improved. It was still not running as good as expected and a little more tuning is required.
The following weekend saw the Performance Vauxhall Show and the forecast was yet again more rain. Luckily though, the forecast was wrong and we had a fairly sunny weekend with two runs on the Sunday. The first run was a steady 6.0 with an early click off which was promising for our second run. The second run was better and we ran the long awaited 5 second pass, the first since the end of 2011!! Needless to say we were all very pleased and ready for the next event.
JapShow weekend with a run at RWYB on Saturday at 6pm. Although it was dry, we now had to contend with gale force winds which meant only a half pass was run. Sure the summer is just around the corner. Sunday and the JapShow, with only one scheduled run, we managed to back up our previous 5 second run from the weekend before and this time it was 5.87 @ 273mph.
The car seems to be settling itself down with the primary engine reinstalled. We now need to find a baseline for the car’s tuning and to gain consistency in our runs.
Hopefully the weather will be kind to us at Summer Nationals and we can get some good runs under our belt.