TurboShed at Santa Pod Round 1! Father vs. Son LS400 1UZ Turbo drag race challenge
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- čas přidán 26. 08. 2024
- In this video we take TurboShed to Santa Pod dragway (down south) and run a Father vs Son challenge for who can run the fastest ET. We also record 0-60mph, 60-120mph, top speed, elapsed time and show live datalogger data as we do our runs. Enjoy the competition, and see who ends up buying supper on the way home :-)
We were pleased to get a chance to show what Turboshed can do, the times and speeds we ran were not half bad - we certainly embarrassed a good few expensive supercars, and our 60-120mph times are well into supercar territory. Pretty good for a 30 year old home built super-budget 4 door saloon running budget street 225 tyres....
What an awesome father/son day out! Love the build, those are impressive runs for such a heavy car. Would be interesting to see how it runs against my 1UZ mk1 Mx5, it's stock power but under a tonne. I'm sure you'd smoke me, but it would be fun!
Well done Leon!
loving the build and all the videos👍
LS400 turbo series is epic! also like how you guys have the data in the corner for viewing pleasures
Looks like a awesome day. I really like watching drift cars trying other racing disciplines. Keep up the good work👍
haha nice to see the furphey merch getting around
Loving it building my own turbo shed currently
i love this i need to learn how to boost my sc400
I was there and my god it was VERY windy indeed. Wanted to respect your privacy and allow you two to enjoy yourselves but in person your car sounds absolutely amazing and your car was my favourite at that event. Really love your car 👍🏾
Thanks for the great comment👍 we will be back to Santa Pod again soon, please come and say hello 🙂
I was in the red corsa on the run u got a missfire. I missed 3rd agaisnt u 🙈😂. Fairplay that thing shifts 👍🏻
czcams.com/video/GPoG_sdhgpQ/video.html that Corsa had us for the 60ft! it was no slouch either, didn't expect that to run so quickly :-)
Well done guys! I want to go to pod Saturday night special try beat my pb... 11.8 to beat still
Without that massive headwind, a bit more practice and with the car on all 8 cylinders I reckon we'd be good for an 11 second run close to 130mph :-) We also have the option of cheating and turning the Haltech traction control function on, might try it next time and see
@@Concept5North yes with them terminals you're getting it should see 11s. What was your quickest 60ft? I think you're probably losing a bit of time on the 1st 1/8th. Still well done! BTW..The black Honda with the drag slicks was one of my friends haha
2.1s was the best 60ft, but the car is just so heavy, and running 225 road tyres, it is not fast to launch, we lose loads on the 60ft to most cars. It makes up all its time at the big end. Mind you, the black Honda was moving, no way we could catch that! We were only 4mph off it at the 1/4 mile though, we'll have that with a few more runs :-)
@@Concept5North 2.1 on road tyres isn't too bad considering the weight lol.. If you get some slicks on it then the shafts and diff might need some upgrades. 1.5 60ft will probably see you into 11.2 11.3 with the terminals you're doing! Yeh you need to see his other Honda... That will be going into the 8s very soon fingers crossed 🤞🏼
@@Ghaffur2005 you'll have to point out his other car, make sure we don't pick a race with that😫😁
Looked like a great day out! With some better tyres and some more fettling it looks like you could go much faster!
So you've accomplished drift, and now drag but how about top speed?
Elvington airfield hosts "Top speed Tuesday" on selected dates. £150 for the full day as many runs as you want over the measured mile.
Ah yes you are ahead of us! We don't live too far from there. From the runs we did on the drag strip I think we'll hit the rev limiter in 6th gear long before we hit vmax. It will top out at ~145mph currently we reckon which is no good for top speed runs. I think as standard the LS400 has a 3.62 rear end, it needs swapping for a Supra manual gearbox 3.13 ratio really I suppose before it would be worth heading for Elvington
@@Concept5North that would make sense, in Lincolnshire where I am there are no drift events close by and I cant fit the LS400 on my trailer so I've decided that the most economical thing for me to do would be to build a road / top speed car. Using the stock 4 speed auto combined with the later 5 speed diff 'theoretically' the car could approach 200mph if it had enough power🙄
Its definitely possible but doing it in one mile is the hard part🤣
Congrats on a great build and keep up the good work👍
200mph - we have enough power to do that, but you need some aero mods. Have a read about this car: www.evo.co.uk/jaguar/9740/jaguar-xfr-225mph it claimed 600bhp (I don't believe that, I'd say a bit more....) flat floor, slam it down, rear spoiler and smooth wheels/arches you'd get an LS400 over 200mph
I'm not an expert but next time clean up tires before every run, get lower psi if its not getting traction, dont just go front, be careful and stand just when 2nd light pops, turbo needs to charge so you guys need to learn heel-toe to stay on gas while going slowly to get 2nd light, when those light shows up let go the clutch before green lights shows to improve RT, you were shifting too early, let the engine go to @6500rpm or even higher if u can, shift faster, practice to shift like a sequential gearbox
20psi is way too high on even budget tires. Try dropping it down to closer to 12psi in the rears next time you’ll be able to launch harder and stick better. Leave the fronts at 25psi or higher as you want less rolling resistance from them and soften both the front and back coilovers to the softest to transfer the weight to the back wheels or better traction. I go to the drag strip by me quite a bit in the summer. Other then that loving the work you guys are doing keep it up!
Cheers for the tips! We'd never even been to watch a drag strip so just guessed a few settings. We went down to 20psi there, but still very much traction limited in the first 3 gears. We'll drop the pressures in the rear more next time, maybe even try to sort some better tyres :-)
Scottparts At least where I live (US) I can pick up used slicks or semi slicks at a very low price but what an older gentleman who drag raced back in the ‘60s-‘70s told me is he used to buy almost bald tires for the rear that acted just like slicks
We tend to find on modern road tyres that they offer more grip when about new, they start to lose grip when worn, and by the time the tread is about gone they are terrible for grip. Either way, drag radials are the way to go for 1/4 mile times!
Good terminal speed what 60ft you getting?
60ft is not so good because the car is so heavy, I think our best was 2.1 seconds. Next time will be faster, we've already done some tweaks👍
Scottparts drop them tyer pressure’s start with 15psi then drop to 12psi see what happens and find a happy medium. Car would go a low 12 with a good 1.8 1.9 60ft for sure but the terminal speed would drop
needs some nittos or some mickey thompsons for an easy 10 seconds you guys change differential bushings?
Agreed, we need a lot more traction off the line as until half track we cannot useful throttle! We'll have to see what finances look like as we would need some 14" or 15" rear rims too, all ours are 17" and 18". The diff is solid mounted to the rear subframe :-)
@@Concept5North oh man if you actually got a small rim tall tire set up that would be nutz you should name the next drag video "750hp Lexus LS400 goes drag racing" something along those lines, as far as youtube goes you guys have the fastest LS400 and people need to see this 👍👍🔥
@@HumbledGod cheers! We would like to get some MT's when all this lockdown stuff is over then get back to Santa Pod and see what the old girl will do😎 under 11s and over 135mph should be no problem😬
Are you guys running this on ethenol? Or pump gas?
98 or 99 octane pump gas, whichever we can get at the time. We don't have the funds to run race gas or alcohol
Yeah nice. They are some great results for just being on pump gas! Is it conservative on timing?
@@HowieTRD we run knock control on the haltech and the ign map was set up on the rolling road so we are running timing for best power, if you watch the live lights data you can see how much base ign it runs, more than I though we could!
Yeah nice. Yeah I always wondered how knock limited they are under boost. I know when mine was tuned n/a it was not knock limited at all. Currently making my turbo setup but I'll be running E85. So will be interesting to see.
how is the tranmission do ?
Transmission has been fine, we've only changed the oil once since we installed it after the 3rd gear update we designed and made
@@Concept5North the z350 z33 6speed？
yes