Avon Park Today

[Bison]

Hi guys nice to meet those of you who I met to today, I think there were more Volvos there then anything else which was nice, Some nice motors you guys have and I picked up a few ideas for future mods to my car to.

Justin was running a 14.2 which was impressive in the hot weather, I didn't run cos my torque bushing needs replacing and well mine is standard at the mo so i want to wait till I get my RICA!

I had some very positive comments about my car which gave me a big head, i'm glad those of you who viewed my baby liked it. Sorry for deafening yous lot with my sound sytem lol.

Can't wait for the bigger meets in the summer! We should all go for the USC weekend at santapod in August! We could get our own area in the show would be great!!

Bison

[Ross9]

Nice time from Justin, what car/spec is it again?

I look forward to hearing what everyone was running, so come on peeps, own up lol. 60ft, time and terminal speed would be great, I do like a good nosy at peoples times, terminals etc lol.

Ross

[Justin]

Well, what can i say, the biggest ever turn out to a Volvo meet, no fewer than 24 cars from the site made the effort today.....ASTONISHING!

Its been a awesome day, Avon were more than accomodating, i will be writing a letter from the site to thank them for the warm reception.

As said, the turnout was amazing, it really is a sight to behold driving down a winding country lane with 8 T5's behind you one after the other, there was some exceptional cars there today, a real credit to all of you.

I managed to scan my 2 best runs although with oily finger prints and creases they are just readable

http://www.volvot5.co.uk/volvogaller...lbum=124&pos=5

For all of you that turned up i would like to say a massive thankyou, this site can only go from strength to strength with meets like that and members that are that commited It was good to see the sun shining on the old faces from last year and a pleasure to get aquainted with the new ones. I will very much look forward to the next, and hopefully have an even bigger turn out.

My sincerest thanks goes to GuyT5, who has no T5 at the moment due to it needing new parts on back order from Volvo, however he still turned out with his Bro running the yellow Porsche 911 (who got a 13.5 )and got over an hours worth of film to go on the first ever forum DVD, these will be on sale shortly @ £5.99 inc P&P. That will cover Guys time in editing the vids and also the cost of the DVD and postage, at the moment we are non profit making.

Once again thanks to all that showed up, even those who didnt run, and still made the effort. Cheers people

[mulletboy2]

I had an excellent time too

Great to meet so many new people, and see you all at the next one.

Oh, and I'll get some of my pics up in a bit - there's some fairly good ones.

[fraz13]

Sounds like it was an ace day

Glad yeez all had so much fun, am just gutted it was so far from me

Cant believe there were 24 cars thats just nuts

[Mrsmopp]

THE best meet we have had so far!! Avon Park is definately the place for VF!! They made us very welcome!

An astounding turnout for our first meet of the year and some really good racing!! None more so that Siamblue who raced the whole day in agony due to his recent op but still managed some excellent times!! A very well done to all of those who broke into the 14's today!!! (Including Winnie ) And well done Ad for some excellent times out of a DIEsel!! LOL

Thank you very much to everyone who attended - you made it a great day!! It was great to see so many new members and as always good to see the "regulars"

I look forward to the next meet and hopefully seeing a few more of you!!



THANKS GUYS!

x

[Justin]

Forgot to say, if anyone has photo's from today please email them to me justin@volvot5.co.uk

I will create a new album and add everyones pics to it, if you could blank out reg plates and resize them it would be much appreicated too

[Goof]

Will do, but I've got 91 files totalling 81Mb...
See the PM I just sent you.

[Al115]

Yeah, I've got a load of photos as well... what size do you want them, Justin?

Great to make so many new acquaintances today, thanks to all the "old hands" for making Debbie and I so welcome, and to **EDIT** VF for organising of course. First time for me on the 1/4 mile track and I loved it.

Blew the temp sensor out of my intake pipe at 90mph, which was amusing after the event. Thanks to Adam for taking time out of his racing to VADIS my car and thus help me back onto the track.

Anyone know whether the 760 broke 16 seconds at any stage?

Happy with a 15.0 (technically a 15.1 but let's not be picky) from my unhappy 230bhp:

REACTION 0.52 (still getting used to it!)
60 2.46
TRAP 95.9
1/4 15.07

Roll on this summer's upgrade programme and the next meet!


Alastair

[Pedro Fandango]

a classsic meet certainly one to remember, & as usual i got my best time of the day when everyone left 14.779@94.75 (not a personal best but BT wasn't happy today)

well done to J for his 14.2

[mulletboy2]

Justin - I'll send my pics over to you now mate. I'm off out to a party, so don't have time to re-size/host, so if you could stick them in a photo album that would be great

Cheers

Mark

[Justin]

Will do mate

[Ross9]

Sounds like it was a quality day out. Good times Justin, 14.269 @ 98mph best I could tell from the slips Was that the best of the day from you lot?

What times did the D5 do?

I await other peeps times, you Volvo peeps are always really cagey about who did what at events lol. It'll get me in the mood for Crail tomorow.

Ross

[Justin]

I think Adams D5 did 16,6 secs Ross

[mulletboy2]

By the way, sorry if I didn't get a pic of anyone's car who went up.. a fair number missed the cars altogether because of the delay from pressing the button until taking the shot.

[chriskay]

Well, folks, although I didn't run, it was a great pleasure meeting so many of you. See you at Stretton Fox? (& maybe I'll wear my old fart's hat ).
Cheers, Chris.

[Justin]

14.269 was the best as far as i know, Giles got a 14.4 sec ¼ and madness pulled a couple of 100mph trap speeds around the 14.7 mark.

I struggled like mad for traction till the track warmed up, then it was ok, definately a better venue than santa pod for us.

Also the time boards were not working am, they got them fixed tho

My car is an 855 T5 96 with a rica remap and an ITG filter, thats it, done just over 100k, i am quite chuffed with the time

[Ross9]

Nice, though I do remember an old thread elsewhere a while back where people reckoned a D5 could do similar performance to petrol turbo's, or not far off anyway, and others didnt, I disagreed on the grounds of limited power band, I dare say people will make their own minds up if 1-1.5 seconds is "not far off" or not

Still, none to bad time for a diesel indeed, be interesting to see how it goes when its rica'd and the torque is silly. Theres a 3.0 TD Audi goes to Crail, I'm pretty sure its a 3.0, and it does low 17's, so the D% is fairly showing it up.

Ross

[swordy21]

What a good day guys!!!!! - throughly enjoyed it . Fantastic to meet every one, and get to see your cars. I was amazed by the number of peeps that turned up, we certainly did make our mark, I think the raceway were quite chuffed. I certainly think you guys who ran did the marque proud. I am itching to have a go now when mine gets RICA'd in a couple of weeks.

Thanks specially to Dave who let me have a go in his 850R to convince me how good his suspension and brakes are ........... just unstuck my eyeballs from my glasses.

I got quite a few good piccys - will flip them over as well, most likely t'morro, as need to edit reg no's etc.

Can't wait fofr the next one.

And see I got my sticker in pride of place now

[Justin]

Lol, Ross it was Rica'ed and pushing 430nm