I finally made it to the legal off street drags at Calder Park, Victoria tonight.

It was my first time competing and what a buzz.

Best time was a 14.030 @ 99.41 mph. 60' @ 2.201.

I had 6 runs and only had traction problems once. The car was great, I had a run against a GT-P and managed to beat him this was where I got 14.030 to his 14.775. He got bad wheel spin at the start and it was his worst run he was usually running in the 13.8's. The GT-P was a Herrod modified car and looked great. I was hoping to get sub 14's and over 100mph, so to miss by 4/100ths of a second and 0.59mph wasn't too bad.

For those interested my "T" is Auto and I have a second cold air intake and a BMC panel filter, shell optimax petrol was used, I also had the center muffler removed today and have done it in such a way that I can bolt either the straight through pipes or center muffler in when needed. (I will post a full write up with pictures on the new pipes tomorrow morning, cost was $150.00)

All up my mods have cost:

$150.00 center muffler removal

$170ish BMC panel filter

$40ish Second cold air intake.

Over all had a great night and recomend it, I took the wife and kids and we all had fun.

Well done Geea-Were there any other XRT'S there???

What was the fastest street car there on the night??

I finally made it to the legal off street drags at Calder Park, Victoria tonight.

It was my first time competing and what a buzz.

Best time was a 14.030 @ 99.41 mph. 60' @ 2.201.

I had 6 runs and only had traction problems once. The car was great, I had a run against a GT-P and managed to beat him this was where I got 14.030 to his 14.775. He got bad wheel spin at the start and it was his worst run he was usually running in the 13.8's. The GT-P was a Herrod modified car and looked great. I was hoping to get sub 14's and over 100mph, so to miss by 4/100ths of a second and 0.59mph wasn't too bad.

For those interested my "T" is Auto and I have a second cold air intake and a BMC panel filter, shell optimax petrol was used, I also had the center muffler removed today and have done it in such a way that I can bolt either the straight through pipes or center muffler in when needed. (I will post a full write up with pictures on the new pipes tomorrow morning, cost was $150.00)

All up my mods have cost:

$150.00 center muffler removal

$170ish BMC panel filter

$40ish Second cold air intake.

Over all had a great night and recomend it, I took the wife and kids and we all had fun.

Great stuff geea.

I was at calder last night and saw most of your runs. Looked impressive...and yes for eveyone else l saw it too 14.03sec down the quater mile. There was alot of interest form the crowd too when you did your runs. Great look with the blue lights. Can't wait to get mine..due in Mid October. Congrat's!! Do you think the mods have improved your times ??

Well done Geea-Were there any other XRT'S there???

What was the fastest street car there on the night??

Ducatijb,

I think the fastest car on the night was a mazda rotary (RX3/4 ??)turbo..10.17sec/400m. It was spretty awesome..really launched off the line.

Didn't see any other XRTs on the night..but geea did Ford proud :D

Best time was a 14.030 @ 99.41 mph. 60' @ 2.201.

Top stuff geea good to see some times at last.

They actualy had the gates open this week...

I had 6 runs and only had traction problems once.

Did you have the TC off for all the run's?

I had 6 runs and only had traction problems once.

Did you have the TC off for all the run's?

Yes TC was off for all runs. The only run I lost traction was when I lined up a bit to the right of center.

My best time was when I loaded the car up to 2000rpm and let go. I didnt do this all the time as sometimes there wasnt enough time. I will probably go again in 6-8 weeks time and with the experience of having done it before I hope to be able to get just under 14sec. This would need a perfect launch and everything going for me.

Did you use SSS or let the car change itself???

I used SSS in performance mode for 5 runs and shifted myself for one run.

The best time was in SSS mode and when I shifted myself I was worried that the delay from 2nd to 3rd might cause the engine to cutout at the redline so didnt use that method again.

just wondering have you ever had your T dynoed if so what were the results?

just wondering have you ever had your T dynoed if so what were the results?

I had it dynoed at the Melbourne dyno day. Completely standard using Optimax petrol it achieved 200.9rwkw. The optimax seemed to make a bit of difference too. With the mods I have now and the difference in the way the car feels I think that on the same dyno in same conditions it would be around the 220rwkw mark. I hope to get back there at some stage and find out. B)