karl you know its because they all have to much power wickid init, and just cannot stop the wheels spinin

 

i think rs2.7 is either jealous, or blinkered!

I'm a ford man through and through, but i can admit total defeat when it comes to being competative with other tuned cars these days. Lets face it, we suck so much that we can't even string a team together for totb, even if it means losing! We had 1 fwd ford there this year, 1 4wd car and a small amount of rwd ones. Isn't it about time we started trying?

 

Half correct, i think most people want a car thats quick on the road (in a road car), getting the power down in first and second isn't an issue really like it is down the strip.

Was the time set on slicks?

 

While i don't run nitrous and i'm not the biggest fan off it. It would be like saying adding a turbo or using petrol not diesel is cheating.

 

best of luck with it Karl

sounds like its gonna be an monster!

 

nice one karl,i look forward to seeing this.we will have to get together to discuss suspension set ups.

 

Lloyd

Tim and Oli have so much fun with their cars and they are as fast as 500bhp cossie's so I had to join in with something that can beat their sorry arses! LOL (I hope tim and oli read this!

I'm not building it for qtr mile use, it's a track car, but mk 1/2 fiesta's are so great at launching anyway I don't see qtr mile as a problem. Suspension wise everything is adjustable up front, normal solid beam at rear with adjustable camber, and bilstein coil overs all round.

 

will you enter it into totb next year?
i have something totally different in mind for suspension, i will have to bring it over when i have modded it.compare notes.
430 sounds good power, zt?

 

Hi lloyd

No its cvh turbo, it's actually the rebuilt engine that powered oli to 173mph as Oli now has a more powerfull engine.

I don't know about totb next year, will see what my bro is doing at the time, main purpose of the car is track/sprints and santa pod.

 

If you did, it might spur a few more onwards with it, and potentially we could see a proper battle at TOTB between a ford team and a vauxhall team in the FWD class, as someone who is into both marques, I reckon that would be AWESOME

 

thats very good power for a cvh,did you ever build that twin engined fiesta?or is this the same shell?

 

hi lloyd,

Originally I built the twin engined car as a twin cvh engined car, when at the time I was getting around 300bhp from cvh engines. This lead to me changing the shell design to accept two YB cosworth engines as I felt 600bhp (2 x 300bhp) was not enough power. Then the car sat doing nothing whilst my time was taken up with my son and family commitments, during which time I developed the cvh unit's which in their final form are making nigh on 450bhp, so I'm going back to cvh power. However the twin engined car will not turn a wheel until year after next as my 3dr and fiesta are taking up all my spare time, as the 3dr is having it's new engine and the fiesta is a new build. Hence I'm rather busy!

 

spekys tigra is running low 11's on road tyres ffs

 

i wouldnt call a 11.6 a low 11, lol

 

its not bad for a thrown together corsa chip!! effortless power feels quick at full chat, with relatively low boost compared to similar powered cosworths

 

Sorry about leaving you last night chip but i'm back now (and by the way my names not phil) .

So to get back on track i've listed the following for you to sob about :
1= The vauxhalls aren't faster than the Fords when comparing similar vehicles to each other .
2= Anything that's stripped out and with 150-190bhp of nitrous will be fast .
3= Normal rwd road cars on street tyres (so no 7 litre v8 specials with 2 foot wide rear tyres) run similar 0-60 foots to the fwd set up in the Nitrous Corsa despite you saying it's 1.9-2 sec 0-60 foots are crap .
4= x-flow powered mk1 fiesta's have run low 13's without gas on street tyres the same as the Corsa does without gas .
5=You and you mates on here don't like the truth and gang up on anyone who puts you straight about it !

 

ok lets compair road legal FWD cars

ill show you the vauxhalls (with proof if needed) and you show me the fords.

fastest FWD vauxhall 1/4

with gas 11.5
without gas 11.6

top speed

highest FWD vauxhall top speed inside 1KM 169mph
highest FWD vauxhall at brunting thorpe 182mph

lets see your simular fords ?

 

Il let you know on mine soon.. my gt3071 buddy.


However the FWD Fiesta owned by szabyk I think his name is wins hands down on 1/4miles.

 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4xwz9voeRLQ

But this on slicks I think!

 

Why doesn't the one without gas use it and kick his arse? He would be the fastest then, would he not. And from what I've read in this topic, he could be in the 10's?

Benni.

 

Sorry but we need more info on the vauxhall cars please .
fastest fwd with gas 11.5 = street legal or slicks etc
fastest fwd without gas 11.6 = street legal or slicks etc
top speed vauxhalls = gas or no gas
cheers

 

ALL those were on street legals, no car ive mentioned in this thread runs on slicks.

 

You haven't givena any information. And for the love of Ford, I would prefer it if you never.

Benni.

 

Benni, the one doing 11.6 has 500bhp without gas, more power wont make him much quicker, he needs to find more traction to go faster, he is doing 136mph terminals already.

No point straining his engine to make even more power before he has worked out how to get it to the road.

 

Which makes them even the more

 

Yes mate , 450bhp turbo zetec fiesta ,fwd , NO GAS on slicks and now down to a 10.4 sec i think .
BYE BYE Vauxhalls and it will run 9's on gas

 

What engine is this? Sounds mega.

Benni.

 

Thats a non road regal car (ie on slicks)

So its currently nearly FOUR seconds behind the fastest GM cars

BYE BYE fords

 

Redtop turbo

 

fastest FWD with gas 11.5 = street legal tyres mot'd taxed insured.
fastest FWD without gas 11.6 = street legal tyres mot'd taxed and insured.

top speed 169 inside 1km without gas.
top speed brunters 182 without gas.


oh and p.s luke if you want to compair FWD cars on slicks ie drag cars
this runs low 9's

 

read above NO GAS

 

the point is, it's not on road tyres... and it's not in this country. you show me a fiesta or escort in this country that can currently match the vauxhalls? what makes you think that specky's tigra wouldn't be faster than that on slicks?

 

Does anyone know if this blokes run his car on street legal tyres yet then ? Let's hope he can spank the chav vauxhalls when he does

 

its not nearly as mega as it could be

 

Because of it not having Gas?

Benni.

 

because of the engine spec itself... there's still lots more he could do.

 

agreed however instead of pointing that out what i have done is just matched ( and bettered) what he is babling on about

 

There's not many people who've bothered drag racing with fwd Fords is there and that's the problem ? A few are being built now and they will go as fast as the vauxhalls if you compare similar vehicles to each other . So a tuned 2 litre fwd fiesta will go as fast as a 2 litre fwd vauxhall corsa when stripped out and on the same tyres . We just need to find one !

 

Chevrolet cobalts such as this:



Are doing 6 second quarters at over 200mph

 

so i tell you cars you cannot reply so you then just go well its because not mny ppl drag race them WTF are you smoking