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Rolling road day??

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Just gauging interested in a rolling road day, see if your car is really making the power it should be or better!
Need a minimum of 15 cars and it would be €50 per car and you get a power output print out.
Thinking of the 24th of October or the 7th of November.
It will be held in rathcoole, Dublin.
I'll start the list off!

1. Paul Glennon
2. Mick Glennon
3. Mick Glennon
4.
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6.
7.

So who's interested???
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1. Paul Glennon
2. Mick Glennon
3. Mick Glennon
4. Bert
5. Ray Finnegan
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1. Paul Glennon
2. Mick Glennon
3. Mick Glennon
4. Bert
5. Ray Finnegan
6. Dylan8660 (Two runs needed)
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Silly question, but how hard do the engines get pushed on a rolling road?
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antodeco wrote:Silly question, but how hard do the engines get pushed on a rolling road?
No more than giving it beans on the street to see how fast it will go.
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1. Paul Glennon
2. Mick Glennon
3. Mick Glennon
4. Bert
5. Ray Finnegan
6. Dylan8660 (Two runs needed)
7. KMG
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1. Paul Glennon
2. Mick Glennon
3. Mick Glennon
4. Bert
5. Ray Finnegan
6. Dylan8660 (Two runs needed)
7. KMG
8. Robin McLerie
9. Macker
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Purely power runs and a graph, or advice on the day for gains and set up? Should have the other halfs mini for this. But would be nice to get some advice (for a fee) on how to coax a bit more power out of it.
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If you want to know what you have to do to get more power, then get yourself a copy of "Tuning BL's A Series Engine" by David Vizard. (The newest edition is the 3rd edition and is just called "Tuning the A Series Engine")
It was originally written 30 years ago but the latest edition has nearly 500 pages on how to get the most out of your engine.
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1. Paul Glennon
2. Mick Glennon
3. Mick Glennon
4. Bert
5. Ray Finnegan
6. Dylan8660 (Two runs needed)
7. KMG
8. Robin McLerie
9. Macker
10.Paul Fowley
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Just after noticing that the 28th Oct is a Wednesday, you're aiming for midweek would that be right?
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1. Paul Glennon
2. Mick Glennon
3. Mick Glennon
4. Bert
5. Ray Finnegan
6. Dylan8660 (Two runs needed)
7. KMG
8. Robin McLerie
9. Macker
10.Paul Fowley
11. Neil Kavanagh
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Gonna have a good nosey on the day if thats allowed :-)
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macker wrote:Just after noticing that the 28th Oct is a Wednesday, you're aiming for midweek would that be right?
macker wrote:Just after noticing that the 28th Oct is a Wednesday, you're aiming for midweek would that be right?
Sorry Macker meant the 24th oct or 7th of November, will be a saturday
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1. Paul Glennon
2. Mick Glennon
3. Mick Glennon
4. Bert
5. Ray Finnegan
6. Dylan8660 (Two runs needed)
7. KMG
8. Robin McLerie
9. Macker
10.Paul Fowley
11.Neil Kavanagh
12.Ross Teeling
13.Ronan Connor
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1. Paul Glennon
2. Mick Glennon
3. Mick Glennon
4. Bert
5. Ray Finnegan
6. Dylan8660 (Two runs needed)
7. KMG
8. Robin McLerie
9. Macker
10.Paul Fowley
11.Neil Kavanagh
12.Ross Teeling
13.Ronan Connor
14. Stephen Lewis

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1. Paul Glennon
2. Mick Glennon
3. Mick Glennon
4. Bert
5. Ray Finnegan
6. Dylan8660 (Two runs needed)
7. KMG
8. Robin McLerie
9. Macker
10.Paul Fowley
11.Neil Kavanagh
12.Ross Teeling
13.Ronan Connor
14. Stephen Lewis
15. John Kelly
If ya can't fix it with a hammer, its an electrical problem!

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Any definite on a date yet, I have to book a day off.
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1. Paul Glennon
2. Mick Glennon
3. Mick Glennon
4. Bert
5. Ray Finnegan
6. Dylan8660 (Two runs needed)
7. KMG
8. Robin McLerie
9. Macker
10.Paul Fowley
11.Neil Kavanagh
12.Ross Teeling
13.Ronan Connor
14. Stephen Lewis
15. John Kelly
16. Maxi
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1. Paul Glennon
2. Mick Glennon
3. Mick Glennon
4. Bert
5. Ray Finnegan
6. Dylan8660 (Two runs needed)
7. KMG
8. Robin McLerie
9. Macker
10.Paul Fowley
11.Neil Kavanagh
12.Ross Teeling
13.Ronan Connor
14. Stephen Lewis
15. John Kelly
16. Maxi
17. Gareth Nathan
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This will be finalised tomorrow with the hope of having it on november 7th
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might not be able to go on the 7th, other commitments
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Booked for November the 7th guys!
If ya can't fix it with a hammer, its an electrical problem!

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Bump for this Saturday!

Kicking off at 10am and onwards

Tea, coffee and sandwiches for anyone coming, and anyone who wants to come up on the day and get there car is no problem
If ya can't fix it with a hammer, its an electrical problem!

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