mk2 escort boy

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Ok I'm reading the paper a spot a little bit about skoda celebrating 10yrs of the vrs models what they did was take a octavia tune it to 500bhp then fly it to the salt flats in the USA and do 202.15mph thats pretty good

Porkie

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Keep up.... it did 214mph

http://www.evo.co.uk/videos/planetev...at_214mph.html

phil_focus

anyone got any better pics of it??

S1MATT

Was gonna say i thought i'd read it'd done 225 but depends which info you read.

http://cars.uk.msn.com/news/skoda-be...st-2-litre-car

Martin-Hadland

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Thats not fair!!!! They should have taken it to Brunters

DAN P

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was going to say it was not done at brunters so did not happan lol 1.5 miles

Brian ST-2

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It would possibly hit 200 at Brunters it Martin or Rod were towing it for the 1.5m........

R4N SS

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so what if it wasnt done at brunters

brunters is not eh be all and end all of all top speed testing is it ?

Brunters is just a place to see how fast your car can accelerate in 1.5 miles. Other cars may take longer to reach their top speed so it would not be possible to do a top speed run on those cars at brunters.

massivewangers

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No Ran, I'm afraid you're wrong. If it wasn't done at Brunters then it didn't happen

Big Will_

And unless the power figure came from a Dyno Dynamics set of rollers it can't possibly be accurate!

Fast Guy

Keep up it did 227mph.
http://briskoda.net/forums/topic/211...at-bonneville/

Martin-Hadland

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Less of the rolleyes, my comment was tongue in cheek !!

Porkie

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Lambchop

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For sure. Otherwise it's probably BS

It's Czech Mate

At least doing it over a bigger distance proves it wouldn't blow up being WOT for more than 15 seconds

Martin-Hadland

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If we had a usable bigger distance here I'm sure we'd all use it! Anyhow how mucho does it cost to get a car to the salt flats and back??

JayCC

Probably be cheaper to move and live out there Martin. Couldn't see it being very cheap!

mk2 escort boy

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I shipped my dodge ram over in 2005 it cost 3500 and took weeks to get here

It's Czech Mate

I'm sure that's true,no doubt about it. And it would be fascinating given how fast that Skoda went with under 600 bhp.

I always will regard brunters as an acceleration test more than a top speed test as cars that run there never reach their true top speed potential due to being geared to optimise within it's confines.

It's a great test and really fascinating, but not a topspeed test in the true sense , ie a two way pass over a mile

R4N SS

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so was mine

need to call you too for some gt30 bits

Martin-Hadland

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Im in Spain til Friday..........And thats if the 500 does 560 mile in 8 hrs tomorrow!