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First time trying this so hope it works. Taken at the recent Summer Party. Not my best run with a stumble & red light. Did get it down to a couple 13.70s and best of 13.61 @ 100.45mph.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XGcW3DRZHE0

72 MGB BRG
80 TR8 Persian Aqua
If women don't find you handsome, they should at least find you handy.

Now that looks like fun, thinks you left the other chap behind a little.
Well done. I have bought things from the roadster factory recently and really fancied a trip to the summer party.

Cheers
Ian

Ian Freeman
1979 TR8 DHC California car that never crossed the pond, started life as KDU 315V.
1962 Triumph Courier

Looks pretty quick to me. The gear changes sound unusual. What box have you got & how do you get the change done so quickly?


Never say die. At least not while you're still breathing.

Stock LT77 box. What we here refer to as powershifting. Something I learned as a teenager and had a lot of broken parts on my old Ford to show for it. [;)] You hold the throttle to the floor the whole run. Stab the clutch & pull the gearshift at the same time as fast as you can. Done right the engine doesn't have enough time to over rev. Not many there doing it I'm sure. Seeing as I only live an hour and 1/2 from the track and have a spares for most of the drive line makes me a little braver. [}:)] I have a rev limmiter also...just in case.

BTW, our slang for regular shifting, leting off the gas in between is called "Granny Shifting"[:D]

72 MGB BRG
80 TR8 Persian Aqua
If women don't find you handsome, they should at least find you handy.

Good stuff. She's reving nicely there.
I do lift when changing gear, but you can change gear quite quickly with an LT77 without crunching the gears. Quite a strong gearbox.

1979 TR7V8 FHC 3.9 Litre.
280bhp and 13.31 secs standing quarter.
20 years of tinkering and tuning......So far!

Yes, from what I've seen of Tricky's car and your setup Phil, I'm not too frightened of breaking things with a 3.9. The weak link now appears to be the stock clutch. I did 5 runs, the first 3 in rather quick succession. I could tell the clutch was starting to slip on the 3rd run and the MPH fell off. I let it cool down for about 45 minutes and it did it's best time & MPH. I hope to be able to fund one of Wedgeshop's flywheel & clutch setups this winter.

I have another vid from the autocross I will put up soon. My buddy and his TR4 got thier revenge there. [:(] Just got the camcorder last week so this is a bit new for me.

72 MGB BRG
80 TR8 Persian Aqua
If women don't find you handsome, they should at least find you handy.

Nice!!!!!! [:D] Sounded coooool. Really makes me miss my last TR8 [:(]

Johnny

<blockquote id="quote"><font size="1" face="Century Gothic, Verdana, Arial, Helvetica" id="quote">quote:<hr height="1" noshade id="quote"><i>Originally posted by windy one</i>Really makes me miss my last TR8<hr height="1" noshade id="quote"></font id="quote"></blockquote id="quote">

really makes me wish I had a tr8 [:p].........

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Stock LT77 box. What we here refer to as powershifting. Something I learned as a teenager and had a lot of broken parts on my old Ford to show for it. [;)] You hold the throttle to the floor the whole run. Stab the clutch & pull the gearshift at the same time as fast as you can. Done right the engine doesn't have enough time to over rev.
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really,really makes me wish I still had my 5.0!![B)]

Ron.