Blastin' past them

Went for a really decent couple hours of jabbing around tonight.

Now that the camber is at a more practical setting for the street, the car was pulling off the line reasonably well, allthough still had to modulate the throttle right through 2nd until I could totally floor it once in 3rd.

First Victim: Modified R33 Skyline GTS-T. It had a phat exhaust, big racing wheels and some jabba wing. There was a couple of young blokes in it.

First run at the lights, see you later the micra got several lengths ahead of them easily no sweat and still pulling hard away.

Second run I gave them about a 1.5 car head start and I did a baby launch. By the end of second gear I was back up with them, then in 3rd the micra screamed past them pulling away very strongly. hahah all that top end power to weight ratio is awesome. Got up to about 140kmh. Then we dropped back to 80kmh and they were checking the car out and saw the intercooler and big brakes etc. Then both of them all gave me a big thumbs up and had this massive grins on their face. So I gave them two quick toots of the horn. hahaha respect. Awesome to see.


Later on I was stopped at some red light waiting to come onto Northbourne avenue and this bloody N13 pulsar q hatch with factory suspension was squatted back to the max and spooling through the intersection then pssscht dump valve. I quickly reversed back and swapped into the left merging lane and caught up to him. I hung back for a while so he didn't notice me, then it turned into an 80kmh zone going out to the Federal Highway. Then all the cars were clear in front of me in the left lane, and he was about 20m in front of me in the right lane. Both of us doing about 70kmh and him not noticing me yet. Then I dumped it back to 2nd and floored it - bam redline, 3rd - spooooooool psccht prob up to 130kmh or something flew right by them. Then they woke up and noticed the micra. Then I did 80kmh, and they did a boost run past me. haha Then it was like all these repeated runs of flooring it and getting up to like 160max and then slowing down again. Was pretty funny. Totally wide huge straight safe section of road with no other cars anywhere (110kmh zone just into NSW again).

Then we both put it into 3rd gear neck to neck and floored it. Monster cained them and pulled away with excess ease. But they were still one quick little hatch. It was awesome to see. I gave them the thumbs up and they all laughed. haha.

So much fun. I haven't jabbed around for ages like that. The car is going well touch wood (my head).

*Cisco's Micra Files in no way condones the act of street racing in any way or form*

Bahaha

DUDE!!! You should have given me a call, I would have taken some boost pics!! And my car's off the road at the moment so I can't even drive that!!

Seano

Damn, I was thinking about it you know. I was about to SMS you and then the pulsar spooled past.

Soon soon.! Yes need to take some cool pics and get some footage for sure.

Holy shit that sounds quick..
You have got to get that thing on a drag strip or at least give it a few G-tech go's, it must be time to get some new video footage on the Monster i can't keep watching the old stuff for insperation.

Make sure you give us a post like this every now and again just to keep me going strong, i need motivation..

Hopefully there should be a few things done to the Super S (Silver Bullet) before Christmas comes.

Just maybe there will some other Micras that can keep up or stay close to yours one day.

I'm sure i asked about video footage first,

But i can't type any faster than an old snail...

thats awesome..i cant wait to get mine out again...ahh i miss it

I've been thinking..

And we need more inspiration on this site. Its gone pretty flat.

I will endeavour to record some cool vids of the boost happening.

And everyone should go and record some cool vids of their micra hacking around the place. Some cool corner/launching footage etc.. We need some decent media on here.

Hehe... Inspiration?

Hows about 10-12psi on stock internals with no intercooler!!!

Sean

That would inspire me mate.. So let's see it :) ?

fantastic read there cisco, gee >can't wait for melb, sooo much boost all in one place, just whish my bluey could have joined in,

Alex

Haha nice work cisco!

But but but TEH skyline can NEVAH loose!?1?

I'm impressed. :)

Haha..that's awesome,i 'd love to see those priceless face on video!

Nice one Cisco.
A good read and glad to see old Bluey is showing them who is boss.
Good to see the other drivers took it the right way and a bit of fun was had by all.Nothing worse than some drop kick who becomes all agro and well wants to run you off the road, fight you etc.

Good work there is nothing better then a Micra that bets bigger cars, or any car really, the element of suprise is the best thing, keep up the good work.

Good one Cisco. I am glad you and 'blue monster' are having fun. I really like the 'wolf in sheep's clothing' routine !.

thats grouse cisco...aaron got his car back and its awesome fun! running very very nice...i bet at this very second he is lining someone up hehe

lol it was a rather sedate drive home actually..

that r33 skyline was fun though :)

"what is that mate?"

Thanks guys, haha its enjoyable.

yay. Did you blow him away?

I just got back from driving around with mighty.
We ran into these funny guys in a GTi-R, the same turbo N13 pulsar again and this sleeper really old turbo honda civic.

Pulled up after a while and had a chat and checked out all the engine bay's etc. A few funny things. Turns out the N13 has a CA18DET with GT25 running 15psi. Surprising because blue monster was pulling away from him comfortably yesterday. But it still hauled along and you can hear it spool a mile away - its a very cool sleeper car.

Before we really knew them when we pulled up next to the GTi-R guy, he says "is this the crazy turbo micra?". haha reputation. Sean said "No mate, she's just stock".

Then later Seano says "We're running the same brakes as you mate" haha.

We did a couple of G-tec and 0-100kmh runs. I'm pretty disappointed. Only got a 14.5 quarter mile on the gtec with us both in the car, nothing fantastic at all. Could only manage a 6 seconds flat 0-100kmh time today also. And that was with Seano in the car. Without him it was even slower (best of a 6.33) (his weight helped the traction more).
I'm certain the VLSD does almost nothing for launch traction now, only seems to pull tight during power cornering etc. I'm honestly disappointed with those times. Its weird though, because I got that very low 5sec 0-100kmh time previously (and without the LSD also). The car seems to be losing too much traction. I think all the slowness was from doing burnouts in 2nd gear. The car definately beats cars which are faster than 14.5 in reality. So seemed weird to me. But still extremely happy with how its driving and how it feels and performs.

Oh yeah and Seano took HEAPS of footage. Going through it now.

Should be some pretty cool stuff. I'll try to make a decent compilation video.

One of the vids shows 5.9sec 0-100, I missed that one.

Still slower than last time though. Must be wheel spinning more.

sounds like fun, im sure you can pull better times that that too. damn too much power spinning through the wheels? get some better rubber! lower the tyre pressures a bit..

were you guys gteching in the same spot as you did when you got the 5secs and stuff?

i was pretty much equal with the skyline..it was rolling and i kinda planted it when he tried to get around me (after being u my ass for ages) and yeah i kept in front, pulled away ever so slightly though but nothing to say really..im happy with the way the cars going now..cant wait for heathcote today!

i think i might crack a high 14.

had a look at some test runs (on the old motor before it blew) and was comparing it with my original dyno run on the emanage..torque was cool:

323NM vs 169NM

fair difference i thought..

will get a dyno run with the current tune/motor hopefully this week sometime.

Far out that's an awesome improvement. So this time round your car is by far the strongest that its ever been? A few improvements finally all in there at the same time??

I bet Mr Skyline was surprised hahaha.

I dropped them to 30psi at the front last night, but probably nowhere near enough for pure drag runs heh.

Yeah completely different road to last time where I timed it. Think I was only running 13psi last time also, maybe better traction even though it was making less. The power to weight once I'm moving seems awesome and you can pass most street cars, but yeah putting it down is the art.

Most of the vids were too dark. But a couple have very good sound and you can see blue monster by the tail lights, might compress and upload one or two of those.

Here's a couple of clips that mighty recorded tonight.

Unfortunately it was way too dark (no street lights), but the sound is good and you can just see the lights move. hah.

Apart from that, great enthusiastic footage from mighty lying down on the side of the road to get the right perspective.

Not many of the other clips came out too well, again too dark etc. Will try to get something decent tomorrow in the daylight.

http://www.micra.hl.com.au/nissan-micra-movie-clips/stealth.avi

http://www.micra.hl.com.au/nissan-micra-movie-clips/stealth2.avi

whenever i drive my car by myself i never find people who want to run!!!!!!!!! except for that commodore, boy would he be regretting saying "why are you going to bother" to me
awesome stuff aaron and cisco, you've got me itching for more power its not funny! See how i go at heathcote today but!

"No mate, she's just stock".

goods stuff fellas sounds like heaps of fun.

sounds like its time for some r-comp rubber cisco...

Hmm yes... lying on the highway at 11pm at night with a camera and a 130kW Micra screaming past... MMMMMM

Bahahaha that N13 was awesome!! Without the cooler you wouldn't be able to pick it visually at all!!

Bluey was easily the fastest there I think, the GTiR would have you on launch but not enough top end...

Ahhh fun night. Can't wait to get my car out and have cisco as passenger recording!!!

Seano - Suffering from boost withdrawl

Yeah definately need some better tyres or something.

Keen on getting some Rs sometime I think. My street tyres are half worn, next refill I might get some. Wonder how long they will last on the street :)

But for now, last today I might try a run with 20psi tyre pressure.