_Smudge_
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Hey Guys n Gals,
In the hope of raising plenty of dosh for Devon Air Ambulance, we are staging a marathon rolling road event on Saturday 14th October this year at www.apmotors.co.uk.
Total Vauxhall magazine have confirmed they will be in attendance as well as possible coverage by local newspapers and Radio stations.
AP motors have agreed to give us a great price so each car run will cost £25, £5 of which will be going to Devon’s Air Ambulance.
As this is a charity event we do require a deposit of £5 paid directly to AP Motors, just to ensure a good turnout.
Deposit can be paid by Card, Cheque, postal order or Cash if you are in the area.
Please be sure to give your contact details so that a reciept can be made out to you, also you will be given a number when you've paid which will indicate your place in the Dyno Queue on the day.
The event will be starting at around 8.00am
We have invited the following Forums/Clubs:-
VVOC
Cavalier crazy
Vectra Sport
Club Calibra
VxSCC
MK2 Cav
Astra Sport
Corsa Sport
Autobahnstormers
VXON
VXR Online
Club Vec
Mig
PVG
Vectra C
Tigra Club
The generous Guys on one forum have a few members that cant make the event but have offered to make a donation anyway.
If anyone else cant make it on the day but would still like to support the cause, you could make cheques or postal orders out to 'VxSCC Southwest Region' and send them to Mr W. Barker, 51 Gillards Close, Rockwell Green, Wellington, Somerset, TA21 9DX.
Many thanks
Smudge
P.S.......would be great if one of the chiefs could make this sticky 
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Welsh Dan
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TBH, down AP you'll be lucky if you get 30 cars on the rollers, as they take quite a while each car.
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_Smudge_
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Thats because they like to analise the result M8.............this will be all out one on then straight off.
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Welsh Dan
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No, its because they take ages. They didn't do any analasys of the results. Just took a while getting the cars on the rollers, then doing the runs and so on. When I was down there, I was down there for nearly four hours, and less than 20 cars were done.
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_Smudge_
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The guys at AP are nocturnal lol. they have said they dont mind working into the evening to run all cars. If needs be.....they'll do another session on the Sunday.
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csweatherston
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ttt.......just over a week away
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_Smudge_
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The running list of deposits paid now looks like this
1. Wayne Barker
2. Bernie Pearson
3. Andrew Thompson
4. Jason White
5. Barry Worth
6. Shane Gibbons
7. Richard Reeman
8. Will Belcher
9. Scott (Bonkers86)
10. Andrew Norman
11. Mike Grey
12. Rod Phillips
13. Mark Phillips
14. Michael Lampitt
15. Keir Manning
16. Stephanie Holmes
17. Dave Cook
18. Matt Perry
19. Adam Woodford
20. Chris Hidgekins
21. Stewart Pink
22. Paul Davis
23. Lee Collier
24. Mike Sanders
25. Matt Pascoe
26. Chris Petts
27. Paul Mills
28. Chris Arscott
29. Dan Barton
30. Gareth Clifford
31. John Dyer
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_Smudge_
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Dawn Convoy.
For those that have an early run on the rollers or for those that just want to be early the plan is.......
Meet at J26 of the M5 (off motorway,take exit for Wellington, Large layby just off roundabout) in time to leave at 06.00.
Reach Exeter services at around 06.20 to leave at 06.30.
Reach Sainsbury's carpark on Marsh Mills roundabout (first exit) at around 07.10 to leave at 07.20 for the 10 minute journey to AP motors.
Deposits paid/running order........
1. Wayne Barker
2. Bernie Pearson
3. Andrew Thompson
4. Jason White
5. Barry Worth
6. Shane Gibbons
7. Richard Reeman
8. Will Belcher
9. Scott (Bonkers86)
10. Andrew Norman
11. Mike Grey
12. Rod Phillips
13. Mark Phillips
14. Michael Lampitt
15. Keir Manning
16. Stephanie Holmes
17. Dave Cook
18. Matt Perry
19. Adam Woodford
20. Chris Hidgekins
21. Stewart Pink
22. Paul Davis
23. Lee Crocker
24. Mike Sanders
25. Matt Pascoe
26. Chris Petts
27. Paul Mills
28. Chris Arscott
29. Dan Barton
30. Gareth Clifford
31. John Dyer
32. Lee Evans
33. Mark Ingoheart
Raffle prizes.......
A Kenwood KDC 334SA cd/radio from Turbulls of Plymouth
Custom set of Reg plates made to your design from Pimp my plates.
One years subscription to Total Vauxhall magazine
A set of race pedals from Carnoiseur of Plymouth
Meguiars gold class Wash and Wax also from Carnoiser
A Richmond gearknob set with Vaux badge from Soresons of Plymouth
A set of 2 Chrome Irmscher door pins from VxSCC
VXR pin badge....VxSCC
2 packs of Vauxhall playing cards....VxSCC
5 pots of VXR Carnuba Wax ....VxSCC
A one litre spraycan of 'Muc-Off' wheel cleaner from Performance 3000 of Yeovil.
Prize from LMF is not yet known and may not be available on the day ...........but it is confirmed (may keep this as a gamble choice against the first few cheaper prizes.
If you fancy a run but haven't paid a deposit there is still a strong chance you will get on if you just turn up.......AP Motors still reckon they could run up to 50 cars in a day.
You know you want to ;-)
Cheers
Smudge
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_Smudge_
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Big thanks to all that supported the event.
Well done Lynne for selling all those raffle tickets.
Total Money raised for Devon's Air Ambulance came to £405.00 which we reckon aint too shabby for a one day event.
Unfortunately some Guys had lower than expected results due to running probs like Wayne and His Courteny cams causing the nasty rattle of the new set of lifters. Bernie's had a misfire and David's Courtenay Turbo was not running the Power they claimed (hope you get that sorted M8).
Wasn't overly happy with my cars performance as I'd borrowed a nice big Cone filter from Keir hoping to gain a horse or two over my previous result of 199 bhp (with very worn plugs and a dodgy MAF sensor). Those nice chaps at AP agreed to run the car again just to see the difference between Cone and Panel filter setups on a Vaux V6 (old and very contraversial talking point amongst V6 owners).
Imagine my joy as the car running with the standard box with 3 pipe mod, extra cold feed and a pipercross panel filter hit 220.9 bhp with 221 lbs/ft of torque.........I'm still grinning now.
Here are the results.....
1. Wayne Barker, Vectra GLS 2.5, 192.9 bhp....190 lbs/ft
2. Bernie Pearson, Vectra SRi 2.6, 177.6 bhp....194 lbs/ft
3. Andrew Thompson, Vectra ST200, 199.9 bhp....207 lbs/ft
4. Jason White, Omega 2.5, 177.9 bhp....160 lbs/ft
5. Barry Worth, Zaffi GSi, 213.4 bhp....220 lbs/ft
6. Richard Reeman, Astra SXi 1.8, 114.6 bhp....136 lbs/ft
7. Mike Grey, Cav GLS 2.5, 188.8 bhp....171 lbs/ft
8. Rod Phillips, Vectra SRi 2.0, Gearbox problem.
9. Mark Phillips, Vectra SRi 2.5, 195 bhp....205 lbs/ft
10. Keir Manning, Cav GSi, 155.1 bhp....153 lbs/ft
11. Stephanie Holmes, Mk2 Cav CDi redtop, 158.1 bhp....146 lbs/ft
12. Dave Cook, Astra Sport 2.0 Eco, 152 bhp....149 lbs/ft
13. Matt Perry, Astra Club 1.6, 105.5 bhp....115 lbs/ft
14. Adam Woodford, Calibra Turbo, 241.2 bhp....281 lbs/ft
15. Chris Hodgson, Calibra Turbo, 268.7 bhp....316 lbs/ft
16. Stuart Pink, Calibra Turbo, 254 bhp....324 lbs/ft
17. Chris Emery, Vauxhall Sierra Cossy, 216 bhp....243 lbs/ft
18. Matt Pascoe, Mk2 Astra GTE, 154.6 bhp....158 lbs/ft
19. Chris Petts, Cav SRi 2.0 redtop, 146.2 bhp....155 lbs/ft
20. Chris Arscott, Corsa SRi, 135.5 bhp....142 lbs/ft
21. Dan Barton, Corsa SRi redtop, 154.9 bhp....155 lbs/ft
22. Gareth Clifford, Vectra SRi, 2.6, 182.6 bhp....196 lbs/ft
23. John Dyer, Cav GSi, 152.6 bhp....155lbs/ft
24. Lee Evans, Astra GSi, 162.3 bhp....166 lbs/ft
25. Mark Ingleheart, Corsa Sport 1.4, 102.4 bhp....102 lbs/ft
26. David Byers, Astra Courtenay Turbo, 177.4 bhp....200 lbs/ft
27. Hagen Lawton, Cav Sri Eco, 131.5 bhp....153 lbs/ft
28. Martin Atchinson, Cav Turbo, 225.4 bhp....269 lbs/ft
29. Allan Day, Prototype ST Cav turbo, 228.3 bhp....253 lbs/ft
30. Barry Trehane, Astra VXR, 245.6 bhp....250 lbs/ft
31. Danny Trant, Impreza STi, 285 bhp
32. Steve Melville, Pulsar GTiR, 327.9 bhp
33. A Massey, Escort Cossy, 338.7 bhp
34. J Wills, Sierra Saphire Cossy, 450 bhp (first run)...lost info on last run but think it was even better.
35. Matt Maddock, Rx7, 263.4 bhp
36. Lee Griffiths, Ibiza, 229.1 bhp
37. Mike Sanders, Celica GT4, 366.2 bhp
38. A Pring, Forgot wot car, 126.9 bhp
39. Mark Phillips (Second Run), Vectra SRi 2.5, 220.9 bhp....221 lbs/ft.
Thanks once again fellas..
Smudge.
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