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MG Midget and Sprite General - 1/4 mile personal best

Every year I manage to knock another tenth of a second off. 15.59 this year at 84.5mph. Strangely the elapsed gets quicker - the terminal gets slower! 9.87 1/8 mile. I should get the autokhana and sprint times on tues.
I was up against an MGF (he lost).
It was 23.5 degrees with 32% humidity
Shawn

Well done Shawn...

Mark.
M T Boldry

good going Shawn - was the Queen watching?
David Smith

It was manly affair - no queens in sight!
Shawn

Bloomin' well done Shawn

"It was manly affair - no queens in sight!"

not even remotely surprised Shawn even if you do like a latte ;-)

mind you

I thought Manly was the other side of the country/continent, blarry long way to go to race an MGF




Sounds like things are better these days, I hope so mate.

Bill 1

It was a bloody good day. I have my mate Rick staying with us from the UK. We both drove the car. It was an autokhana first around cones, then straight on to the drag strip. leading to a sprint around the approach roads to the complex. I got back, handed my sweaty helmet to Rick, and he went straight out. When he finished, it was quick handover back to me. 4 runs each, and the car never missed a beat or even got hot! I never had to lift the bonnet. Lots of cars fell by the wayside, including many moderns. Rick managed a 16.2 second run, but had an amazing reaction time of 0.008 secinds in one of his runs! I was chuffed with my 0.08 until then. The hardest thing is stopping the car in the box on road tyres.
Shawn

What do you rev and hold to before dumping the clutch or do you drop the clutch and hard accel from idle ???

Nice runs ... Had to be a great day...im envious
Prop
Prop

I think about 4 and a half thousand, but not sure. I got too much wheelspin on the first run, so pegged it back a little and fed the revs in.
Shawn

"Every year I manage to knock another tenth of a second off. 15.59"


So you only need another 56 years to get under the 10sec time then. ;)


Sounds like good fun tho.
Still pissed I couldnt give it a go a Santa Pod last year (went on holliday without carrying a drivinglicence.... and thats the only thing they want from you to let you on the track) :(
Arie de Best

13.8 in the Caterham, not sure the thought of what it would be doing to the wire wheel splines would keep me awake at night!
Robin Cohen

Hi 13.6 @ 96 mph hoping to go a bit quicker now Iv fitted taller diff
Darren 2litre frogeye

Now that is a quick car Darren. 0 - 100 in what, 16 seconds. Donald Healey would be a bit chuffed with that.
Shawn

Hey Darren, good to see you back here!!
What diff have you put in, a Ford one as your axle is anglia or did you fabricate something else?
Arie de Best

Hi Iv fitted a 3:7 diff into my anglia axle the old one was a 4:1 and my problem was it would only pull 93 mph max in third @ 7800 rpm , which ment changing up just before I got to the line ( my et speed was 96 ) now it pulls 98 mph in third , also it will have made 1st ( iv got the long 1st gear ) and 2nd travel further to , its helped on the sprints and autosolos I do , Iv messured my 0-60 on my racelogic gps dataloga as 4.5 so Im quiet pleased with the acceleration :-)
Darren 2litre frogeye

Hi Shawn

Glad to hear you are giving the quarter mile a crack. I am over here on the Gold Coast in Qld and have been out once or twice. You get a real idea of what a car is capable of when you see its quarter mile time. As you and I would know, reducing those times by even a tenth of a second can cost you thousands of dollars because on the drag track, the gains are in tenths, not seconds. Your time is very respectable. A lot of drivers of V-8,s getting around would be surprised to realise their pride and joys are slower than that. The brand new V-12 E-Types could only do about 14.9!

Sprites running original Sprite motors are what I'm interested in. It's much easier to get fast times if you put in a huge Ameican super charged motor or a double over head cam, cross flow forced induction Nissan. But that's not really Sprite is it?

My Mk1 by the way did a 14.8 on its first outing running a highly modified 1275 Sprite motor. I'll take it back sometime and try for a better time as I have done some more mods so hope I might get another tenth. My aim is to eventually get to low 14's but that will be hard. See the 1/4 run here @ http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pDBBo3GWyGw&feature=related .

The English Sprite specialist magazine MASCOT is about to run an article on the car. Editor Gary Lazarus, saw the following clip and decided to do a feature http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P4Bh-OH-BeI

Cheers

Bruce

Bruce Roberts

I did and I am (if I can get my act together!).
Gary & Gaps

>>Iv messured my 0-60 on my racelogic gps dataloga as 4.5 so Im quiet pleased with the acceleration :-)

Hi Darren... that's a very very good time! With a 740Kg car, that indicates around 200 bhp; what do you have?

Car must be a monster on the road, if I compare with my 'modest' 154/170 bhp/lb-ft...

A
Anthony Cutler

Bruce, it is still forced induction! Mine is just unsympathetic use of revs!
Shawn

Shawn, it's a small world. I was out with Mark Boldry at a Sprite meeting last night. He tells me you are a good guy and you are like he, from the old country. I'm a descendant but born here. Apparently you were over this way not all that long ago. If you come again, come around and check out the car.

Bruce
Bruce Roberts

Will do, say hi to Mark and Anita next time you meet.
Shawn

Hi Anthony , yep it made 209 brake on the rollers , its not to bad on the road, drive it all over europe , and not(always ) flat out all the way :-)
Darren 2litre frogeye

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