NATS help: how to make a silvertop trueno fast in a day?????

[The_Lorax]

Does the alternator suck power in the same way as Air Conditioning? After all, it's belt driven off the engine...and it also weighs a bit.

You could pull the alternator off and run it down the strip soley on battery power? Make sure your battery is fully charged if you are going to try this.

P.S - i've never done this and i'm not sure if it'll work. Check with someone else first.

[Infinite]

yea u can just get a good battery

[RAZA]

Cheers guys. Just went and saw it and it's coming along nicely...

I did find out that we may have been under estimating the competition slightly - it's not an early 80's accord, it's actually a late 80's prelude. (auto carby prelude though)

Anyway, I took a few pics:







the competition:

[no_8wire]

Going turbo?

[RAZA]

The idea's been considered, but in the end due to difficulties with constructing a manifold and providing adequate fueling I think a decision was made to mount the turbo they had on the top of the strut brace and have it poking through the bonnet for looks only....

[RAZA]

OK, they have a problem now, the car wont start anymore.

the suspicion is that the ecu has taken a dislike to arc welding being done on the car while it was all plugged in, so they would like to borrow a silvertop ecu for quarter of an hour, at the showgrounds today, to plug in and see if it makes the car start. if anyone has one please text Joe on 021 333 837.

thanks

[Loudtoy]

If they get it going again take the trumpets out of the inlet plenum and ditch them. ou'l only be aiming for top end anyways. Worked a treat on mine, Ditch the stock airbox and run whatever you can find out to the front headlight location and leave that there with no filter. Breathing will be the best thing they can do. May have to turn battery sideways to make it work tho. They got the right idea with the straight pipe, as close to the extractors as they can get should be the best spot to start it at.

My expectations for time is high 14-s - mid 15-s depending on driver and how tired that motor actually is. I did mid-high 14's in mine when it had done 180 thousand clicks

[strap-on]

Make it a convertible , take out the powersteering as well, fuk it while you want to reduce paralytic loss take off the oil and water pump as well and just change the oil and coolant between runs

[Infinite]

can i have it once its finished

[AceSniper]

haha be fun to watch it runing the sard if he bounces it off 9000rpm

[AceSniper]

weld the rear strut rods to the houngs an lock them?
wouldnt ditch the alt... water pump runs off the same belt

get them to change the vacume line on the fpr from the single TB to the vacume line just above the fuel in hose so you get a even vacume from all 4

[crshbndct]

HA HA HA HA team onboost got an early 80's honda accord there is like a 10 year difference between the two cars. Gutted for team onboost.

if it is an accord aero(aerodeck? cnat remember which) then they are in a winning positon already.... b20a motor with 20.9kg/m torque and 121kw. and about 10%more power is easy to get

also about 900kg weight

[Boosted_162]

HA HA HA HA team onboost got an early 80's honda accord there is like a 10 year difference between the two cars. Gutted for team onboost.

if it is an accord aero(aerodeck? cnat remember which) then they are in a winning positon already.... b20a motor with 20.9kg/m torque and 121kw. and about 10%more power is easy to get

also about 900kg weight

If you read above, you'd see its a late 80's prelude, XX model (dual carb) and its auto. I used to have an Si one, which actually went not too bad, but the dual carb auto one would suck pretty bad, especially to a silvertop!

[sergei]

SO how this whole thing went? Do you guys manage to start it?

[AceSniper]

They got it started but never ended up runing

[RAZA]

Yeah it sounds like the organisors basically ran out of time to have the race between these two cars

[skoty]

Yeah it sounds like the organisors basically ran out of time to have the race between these two cars

Yeah, went over and had a look though. Bit of a laugh with the turbo hanging out of the bonnet doing nothing but adding extra weight lol
Good day I must say, especially those 7-second supras

[AceSniper]

spoke to the guy who was ment to race it, He was just going to go as fast as he needed to keep infront of the honda... felt the welded rear shocks were going to make it very hard to control. They were going to enter it in burnouts an hold 9k till the engine or tires went