Can they be tuned to go quick ? reason i ask is i had one follow me to the local test track and tried it on,absolutely caned his arse twice,couldn't understand if he was thick as mince racing a cossie or if he genuinely fancied his chances.

 

They are very tunable, but few people bother as whats the point in ten grands worth of tuning on 1 grands worth of car.

 

Ah so he was just a muppet then.

 

Can be tuned to well over 600bhp if you want it.

250bhp or so is easy first steps, with more boost, exhaust, filter, etc, and that should keep up with a stg1 cossie.

I doubt he got a "cossie engine mods radar" fitted to his car, so couldnt tell you was on greens

 

Can be quick

dont handle for shit though.............trust me I know.........

 

ive raced against a few of these , the old Super coupe cup cars were quite quick for what they are, nimble FWD handling as well round short circuits . Cope with a Cossie up to 330 bhp round the twisties i reckon , didn't have the speed after that tho .

 

Pardon my ignorance about matters Rover (bad experience with a company Rover in 1985 means I've deliberately ignored them ever since) but what is a Tomcat?

 

He sure knows now though !!!

 

Me too,you should have seen the understeer lol.

 

its the 200 coupe, with a 2 litre turbo engine

I like em

 

My mate has one should be over 350bhp once he finally gets arounf to running the fooker in But they are a nightmare to get over 300bhp and a lot of money has to be spent compared to cossie quivelent.

Tomcats are the rover coupes they made fro about L plate to R?

 

This one was an m plate.

 

they come with nasp engines as well!

 

I had a 1.6 Honda engined one. Crap. Never let me down for 2 years and quite comfy etc but still crap.

 

seems like a perfect time...



Everytime you look at your hand Dom you must feel gutted

 

see thats the best thing about cossies no one ever no s what has been done because there cheap to mod

 

WTF happened to that? Was that Dom's car then ?

 

damm looks nasty hope driver was ok ?

 

Andy - Yes was Doms car after he rolled it, luckily he survived but has some war wounds...As he lost some fingers due to the sunroof coming out.....

Car was a total wreck! He was going fairly aswell, How he got out i really don't know Someone was looking over him that night!

 

Nasty!

Lucky man.

 

Lucky escape Dom!

 

i've just got an 800 Vitesse Sport while i get some funds saved up for another cossie... not too bad, but not sparkingly fast either!

pistons dont like much more than 12psi of boost for long, so need forged pistons i am told.

mems ecu is shite tho.

then theres the gearboxes lol.. mines had a rebuild, but you never know pmsl.

250bhp is easily achieveable, but you do need new pistons!

 

i had one with about 250 bhp, was very fast in a straight line and top speed, not very good round corners and the sub frame came apart!
the drive shafts come out all the time too!
got pissed of with fixing it all the time so sold it
now have a cosworth and it off the road half the time too! (but will not be selling it this time)