The car in my avatar is the one I'm driving.... and even though it has a good few visual mods to 90%+ of the population all they see is a 1.4L badged old Estate.
So I end up on the receiving end of every twat wanting to give me aggression from 1.2 Corsas to vans

It's running a 2.0 Zetec on throttle bodies after all, and can match the average modern hot hatch (Astra VXR Focus ST etc ) yet still I get fuds in taxis and other random slow shit wanting races..... I'm all for giving the quicker stuff a fright, belive me it's great fun, especially the arsey reps. But it gets a bit boring after a while being cut up by pensioners in motorised wheelchairs who think they can beat you....

Anyone else experience this whilst driving sleepers/stuff that's out of the ordinary?

 

i get more people trying it on since i added the cosworth graphics to my touring. they must think "bmw never built a cosworth" before learning the hard way......

 

love the touring fuzzy, great sleeper

 

Whats worse is when your out in your non sleeper daily driver....in my case a punto 1.2,lol, and you see all kinds of sporty machinery on the road you could have a run with but when you bring your....in my case not so sleepering sleeper out there nowt but old fuddeys in there 1.2 punto's kicking about.

 

Dozy twats have no imagination.......
First rule of a sleeper after all is 'don't believe the boot badge'..... kinda defeats the purpose when you have to spell it out for everyone

I'm sticking with my original boot badges for now!

 

i sometimes think this! then think of the look on some peoples faces when there behind me and think its all worth while

 

not boot badges as such....
but you cant do something like this and not brag about it just a little.

 

hehe, nice....

Gaz, you're totally right, it totally comes together when you give something quick a proper fright..... just been stuck in too much traffic today I think

 

I had similier problems (Believe it or not) in my Esc Cos, due to no rear spolier from factory. Bloke down Southend stopped me and asked if it was genuine as in his words "Its a good replica" I removed the rear boot badges and another bloke in a BMW pulled up to a set of lights and asked if it was genuine. I said no

 

i put all my running gear into an old sierra estate a few years ago over the winter
had a right laugh for a while
then got bored of the shite looks and handling(rear suspensions differant on estate so cant be swapped)
even went to crail with 420bhp, shocked a few evo's that day
by the summer i wanted my saph back on the road
but i loved my winter in the shell that i didn't care if i wraped it round a lampost and the day at crail beating skylines and evo's in an old soerra estate i will remember for ever

 

I used to get it in the S1, EVERYONE wants to sit an inch off your bumper goading you you, drove me mad.

But, when sitting at some lights one day, two lads on hairdryers are chatting to each other and say "that's a replica, bet it's just a shitty 1.1"

As the lights change they went for the big over take, couldn't help myself, nailed it and left them way way back in the mirror!!

The civic tends to attract all the chavs in corsa's and puntos, makes me laught when they hammer it past you as you tootle along and give the look as if they have just had you?? HHHMMM a race tends to need both people participating lol!!

 

FUZZY i love your car mate! love the way you wear the RS Cosworth badge with pride!!! the way poeple go on here these days its like its embarassing.

i got Passionford.com sticker on my back windows of my 200sx s14a and i get people going...."errrr thats a nissan" i love rs's and fords and wont ever forget it.

 

when i had my s2 rep i never used to give it anywhere lol, that used to piss people off more i think trying to race but no gettin it

 

Just love sleepers

My 4i only has the original graphics on the boot

Steve

 

I notice a marked difference on my dads xr4i, when we have the V8 badges on to when they are not on(magnetic), with badges on everyone one is up ur arse, badges off not a hint of it.
tabetha

 

i love sleepers, the look on folks faces is priceless when you beat em!

 

Its just as bad in cars that scream out
"DONT EVEN TRY IT PAL!!"

When ever we have to take the rally car anywhere on the road people try to have a crack at it.
I normally find that the noise and flames from the launch controll & anti lag scare enough people to not bother, when they start revving at the lights.

 

I want a car that dose that sounds like fun

 

Most the time they wind down the window and say,
"What the fuck is that!!!!!"
You tell or been the odd occation they want a look. They then say,
"Shit me!!, I thought it was a 1.1 with a chav kit on it."

The bloody kit is a real one from M-sport. And bloody expensive aswell.

 

Best sleeper i've ever had




they just didn't have a clue this was under the bonnet

 

A mate of mine has got a boggo looking clio 16valve with a heavily modified 240 bhp williams lump on throttle bodies under the bonnet. That surprises a few

 

have you got a thread for this car?

I wanna see it!

 

I got busted by one of them at Santa Pod.

I was in a Escort Cossie running about 370, and thought it was just standard Nova comple with rust.
I didnt give much effort off the lights, as I thought I would smoke him by the end. He had a wicked start and if it was 1/4 & 10 feet I would got him.
But it isnt & I didnt. Which ment I spent the rest of the day with my mates constantly telling me
"You got Nova taken!!".

 

Web sites in my sig.
Bit out of date though.

 

am in the middle of sleeper after crashin my saph putin everythin in to my 4i, it will look abit like cossie4i's white xr4i........

 

i think it is possibly just as bad when you do drive a car witha cosworth bage on the boot, i cannot drive to work in the morning without some cnut having a go

 

silky what engine is that???? used to have an astra mk2 gte but didn't know you can get turob'd versions... unless you strapped it on after?

 

indeedy... and why do they tailgate when your crawling over a speed hump like they're keeping up? fucking twats

 

i know exactly what you mean, my journey home consists of a short road upto a large round about, this is where you usually spot them, they sit at the lights revving the tits off it, i then show them the error of their ways down the bypass, then they finally catch me up going through a housing estate and overtake me whilst going over speed bumps

 

Must be a Ford thing, I've had my VR6 for 4 years and never had anyone try and race me!

 

funny thig is its not always 17 years olds, alot of the time its grown men!!!

 

happens in the nissan 200sx too!

 

And women trying to prove that they are just as good as men, in their husbands 3 series.

And normally when I'm in my work van.

Well done. You beat a wankey old smokey Escort van with a miss fire.
I always wonder if they pat themselves on their back.

 

I get people all the time wantng a race so when I chew them up I get asked WTF is in that, so I just say 1.6mate as that's what it says on the back LOL recent chew up was an a4 20v

It's proper fun

 

I get people all the time wantng a race so when I chew them up I get asked WTF is in that, so I just say 1.6mate as that's what it says on the back LOL recent chew up was an a4 20v

It's proper fun

 

classic love it miss mine everyday as it was just such fun, once i finished it was running 300bhp with 321ft-lb torque and pretty much wasted anything in a straight line

it is a C20LET from a Calibra Turbo, custom built and altered to fit in a NOVA engine bay along with the 6 speed gearbox, the Nova GTE only ever had a 1.6 8v engine fitted from factory abet this 1 had a full Group A spec engine running 150bhp and quaife gearbox when i bought i then bought stripped and rebuild a C20let engine and fitted it and ran it on Phase 2 Chips with a MBC holding 16psi spiking around 18psi

Here is vid of it on standard chips and 7-8psi of boost

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u94uFgentuU

 

on the way to work the other morning their was bird in a VX220 right on my bumper, dropped it down a cog and launched it sideways through the round about, she tried the same and ended up facing the wrong way on the dual carriage way, how she didnt crash i dont know!

 

oh and p.s it had Gumball stickers all over it and a ferrari badge on the front

 

sleepers are great fun!! my cortina with 17" alloys and a big exhaust made for some funny moments


The fact it has a cossie in it helps a bit

Paul

 

Glad you find it funny. 5 years on and I still get told about the time I was Nova taken.
I was fucking there!!!

My friends are plebs at times.