CossieRich

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shut it Q. Nik actually wants a ride in mine too

Mike Rainbird

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No he doesn't, he was just being kind and didn't want to hurt your feelings.

CossieRich

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He wants a go in mine.

Mike Rainbird

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Sorry, he just PM'd me and advised that he would, but only if Mark was driving. There was something mentioned about slippery sticks and dog's arses when it came to you and driving .

Luca

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Nik - Can I ask although the car was ran in the went and you got that speed. What revs were you pulling at topspeed and is there any more in the car if say it were dry?

CossieRich

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is that right. Funny how Marks lets me drive for mapping

Mike Rainbird

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Only because the car drives marginly better than with no-one behind the wheel.

Rod-Tarry

7200 rpm I believe, looking at the graph thats already on falling Power so on this gearing which I think is just about perfect, theirs not much left I guess. 180 with 503bhp is going some & I recon pretty much optimum.

Would get to 180 in a shorter distance in the dry, but without more Power wont go much faster, thats my opinion, whats yours Nick.

dunketh

Bloody hell!
Well done!

For me the performance is almost irrelevant with these cars, it'll always be cooler than anything else (cossies included) just because its a Capri.

I bet its a handful.

Stu @ M Developments

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I bet thats terrifying. Fastest Capri i have done only had 430bhp on a TT-T38 and the damn thing wouldnt get traction until 5th Gear. I salute your balls doing 180mph in it, in the WET!!

R4N SS

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awesome

CossieRich

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when have you been out with me to assess my driving exactly?

Mike Rainbird

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Don't shoot the messenger. You should here what Jim says about your "skills" behind the wheel. Allegedly that Jehova bird could do a better job.

CossieRich

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rofl then Jim must be telling us both a different story, as his words to me are, you were so fast around the nurburgring towards the end of the holiday that i thought you were going to be as good as me

Mike Rainbird

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Obviously yet another who doesn't want to hurt your feelings....

Chip

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Thanks for all the useful on topic postings in this thread about an MAD engined capri Mike

And to think, lots of people say that you deliberately shit stir in every MAD post just to give you an excuse to move it to the dummy room or anywhere else you can move it to where people cant see the results, im sure thats all not true though based on how useful you are being here

CossieRich

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did someone mention a roundabout a lack of talent and a sapphire cossie? Specifically a moonstone blue one

Chip

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He's got you well and truely in the keep net there Rich, thread will be in the spat your dummy room in no time at this rate, and if not, certainly no one is talking about the capri anymore.

Why not just rise above him (you can do so and still be in the gutter after all so its not hard) and just stop replying to him mate?

ECU Monitor Enthusiast

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Absolutely love this car !

Dont give a fuck who tuned it - No disrespect to MAD.

Chip

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Agreed, much as the engines output is a credit to Mark's tuning skills, the car itself is just a nutty concept wonderfully implemented by Nick, irrelevant of who did the mapping etc

Mike Rainbird

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That was clearly a lack of eyesight and poor forward planning. I've been to spec-savers since. However, I think I have a pot and a kettle to go and paint black .

Luca

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Agreed, Ive said the same to Nick and openly admitted I have never liked capri's but with this car there is something just different!
Not associated with the power........ it just looks so right

CossieRich

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Go for it mate. I have never crashed a car in my life

Porkie

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I agree! 180mph at Brunters in my 911 is almost BORING (according to Maria! )

Cant imagine how scary it is in a Capri!!

Well done to all involved

Cossie Helen

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Awsome car, well done to all involved

Mike Rainbird

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You must have one coming then . Quick touch some wood!

Graham S1

Nice Capri! and top figures, must be a crazy car on roundabouts.

We've just sold ours.

Ade

Stunning! Love the subtle looks as well, so many get it so wrong with Capris and just fire on a shitload of plastic tat on them..... especially big power ones!

Suprised and impressed that it managed 180 with 500BHP coupled with the prehistoric aerodynamics! I would have expected more to be needed.... old Escorts can't do those numbers after all.

4parajon

Congratulations Nick, dont think I got chance to say it to either you or Mark on the day.
Was very nice to meet you and see for myself the car that planted the seed for mine althose years ago.

4parajon

I'm pretty certain there's a black MK2 RS2000 thats reached 179ish at Bruntingthorpe and the Hippy in his Mk1 Escort did a 170mph in the wet last year there at a CF mag shoot.

b16nyk

Rich
Unfortunately not around the next couple of weekends but deffo hook up soon

Mike
Engine made 500.2bhp and 500.7ib/ft on the Norris dyno

Rod
Basically I agree that there is not much left in the car,but I reckon without a split diaphragm in the dump valve,with no headwind and a dry track that maybe,just maybe the car might make 185

Chip and Rod
Congratulations for predicting the top speed reached within 0.1mph!

Next time I'll save all the stress,cost and time off work and just phone you guys for my top speed!!

RS2.7

Nice Capri .
Terry Davis' mk2 escort YB turbo also done 180mph at brunters so you're doing great

marco polo

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great stuff , well done

Mark Shead

As you can see as the run was done in 3rd the engine did not quite see the same boost lower down as the engine dyno, So you dont quite have the same Tq as the engine dyno but when you look at it its only 15ftlb down from the max it showed on the dyno,
This shows you a proper engine can make within a few % of what is recorded on a engine dyno and 2 diff companies owning them,
This is not a advert only a reply to your question by someone that is the best qualifed person to do soso no deleting this.

Mark

b16nyk

Terry's car did 178.9mph which is almost unbelievable in a flat front Escort set up for drag racing

sunny

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Totally awesome achievement!!!!

Ryan G

thats a lot of tourque for 500bhp ent it ??

b16nyk

2.6 bar boost tends to do that!

Martin-Hadland

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That's a strange thing to say, why does it require a 'proper' engine to record consistant figures between the two dynos?

Mike Rainbird

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Thanks for the reply .

Always loved the car and can't believe you still have it .

Interesting that the torque is more out than the power, where power is just a calculation of torque when comparing the two, I suppose it's just where the rollers can't load the car in the same way the dyno can? .

Would be good if someone could overlay the two to see a direct comparison between the rolling road and dyno.

I have yet to take my car to a rolling road (tried once, but the turbo ingested part of the air-filter and each run the power got less and less ), but am interested to do likewise - especially with 4wd .

Car is a credit to you .