I finally got the Skid Wagon out to another burnout comp. I offered my mate Dazza a co-drive since he'd been helping me out with the car alot. Daz is no stranger to the burnout pad so I knew the car would be in good hands.

The car was pretty much ready to go apart from the diff. I destroyed the last one and haddn't got around to building a decent one. A while ago I put in a bog stock VN wagon diff (factory 28 spline) which i was planning to have a full spool and 4.11 gearset installed into it. I haddn't got around to it and the comp was in a few days so Daz brought around his stick welder and we locked it up. Not a good thing to do if your planning to modify the diff in the future, infact not a good thing to do ever but it got us to the comp.

I took the car out in the first session and it was going pretty well considering the tall 3.08 ratio. I managed to get it up to 3rd gear and I was pulling some nice 360 whips which the crowd seemed to like. Next thing a hose lets go and theres steam pissing everywhere so i shut it off. I got pushed off the pad in style by the fire crew.

I found it pretty strange that it overheated since I was only going for about a minute and a half... Once we got it back to the pits we had a look and found that it spat the bloody belts off again! Last time it only threw off the power steering belt but this time it chucked them both off which obviously stopped the water pump spinning. So once again I leave the pad with tyres still inflated... :(

Luckily I brought a couple of spare belts along since the old onces were now lying on the burnout pad somewhere. Me and Daz fitted up the new belts and tightened the crap out of them this time. The hose that blew for me had only popped off so we were able to just slip it back on and refill the water. Daz took it out on the pad with some fresh tyres and went up to 3rd almost straight off the line. The car was under a fair bit of load but it was smoking like a demon. He managed to blow both tyres and get the whole exhaust red hot. When he stopped and got out of the car a small power steering fire started but then the hose blew off and extinguished the fire!! I'm so jelous!! He had to get towed out of there aswell but atleast the car went the distance this time.

I was glad to give Daz a go in the car since he's a good mate and it kind of makes hauling the car out there a bit more worthwhile since the car gets to go out twice. The CIG locker went the distance although after the second burnout it had 1/4 of a turn of play in the wheels. Despite cutting half the exhaust off since last time, the car's still not loud enough! We've got to do something about that before next time.

Dazza smoking it

The radiator lets go on me

Me doing doughies

Daz's victory wave just before it caught fire. Note the red hot exhaust pipe

My embarrasing departure from the pad

Daz letting it rip

Popped

Awesome guard damage!!

Please Note: Photos in this post are copyright of Badger Photography and Fully Sick Photos where watermarked. More images from this event can be found on their websites.

On Friday I got a voicemail from WSID letting me know that they're having a burnout comp on October 4th. Unfortunatley the wagon is still out of action so it'll be sitting this one out. I'll be there watching the carnage from the stands.

For details on the event see WSID's site.

The rain held off so we hauled the car down there. We had some dramas getting it onto the car trailer because the thing was too low.

I got it onto the pad, got it into 2nd gear and took off nice and slow making plenty of smoke. Things were going great for about 30 seconds when I threw the power steering belt then it all suddenly got alot harder. I hooked it in for my first doughnut while in 2nd or 3rd gear and as it flung around it bogged down.. The dreaded fuel surge! So I smashed it back to first which brought it back to life and rode the limiter for a while. Most of my attention was wasted hanging off the wheel trying to steer the damn thing. I eventually got it back into a higher gear and off the limiter but then as soon as i turned it around it surged again.

Next thing I know I hear a large bang in the car. Woohoo, I've done the tyre! Oh wait, no thats the axel... I looked across and saw an official waving at me so did a 3 pointer and started driving out. As I started heading for the exit I thought f*ck it and jumped on the gas and did a single legger line locker all the way out trying to finish the tyre that still had drive. I ended up sitting there on the limter waiting for it to blow but then the car started sounding a little unhappy - the gap between the limiter bounces started getting slightly further apart so I took that as a sign to drive out of there while I still could.