tried it reving high about 4-5k and it bogged down so down it a bit less and it flew... Straight past a meat wagon

 

Am I missing something? If it bogs down and you give it less revs how can it fly? It will have less power so it should bog down even more. Or did you mean it lit the tyres up?

 

LFM is fast I couldent believe how well it took of the line wicked I bet mark is driving in both the vids?

 

Lukey has trolled this to perfection

 

I know mate nearly page ten just need chip to make some comments then it could be a 15pager

 

taken from page 6 and no one commented about this

Surely not!? Not a well set up stage 3??

 

I think what people dont quite get is you can have 800bhp in a car and it could drive like shit and really struggle to get the power down, and even be nowhere near as quick as a car with less power thats been done properly as no doubt has been seen many times before, to make a fast car its not as simple as fitting a crazy engine.

To take that kind of power and put it in a rwd car and make the figures you do is a true bit of engineering.

 

My old nova with a lightly modified c20let was quicker than a stage 3 cosworth.

You are talking about 270bhp typically from a c20let nova/corsa, and 330 or so for a stage 3 cossie, and the nova/corsa suffers less transmission loss, so at the wheels its only probably 15% in it

Nova/corsa c20let weighs around 900kg, sierra weighs more like 1300kg, ie nearly 50% more

do the math!

 

Thats a fair point with a 2L 16v nova/corsa but this fool is on about his mates 1.2L bog standard corsa lol

 

Good to have u back chipity chip. Wouldnt the chassis need strengthening though as the novas i've been in are loose as fuck

 

apologies, not read whole thread, but to sum up : 1.2 corsa = shit

 

The bay requires some welding to stop them ripping apart over time as they fatigue, but its all pretty simple stuff.

getting one to handle genuinely well is harder though, not there yet with my corsa, still nowhere near as nice to drive as my mrs standard 172 clio even though the corsa is faster round a track overall, it just doesnt "feel" nice when you drive it, even though its quite effective, its not in a nice way.

Definately not a "sweet chassis" on the nova or corsa, although the corsa c are a lot better.

 

ROFL....

 

Matt i cant believe chip hasnt read the whole 9 pages yet!

 

All in good time pal.....

 

Your joking aren't you?

 

Thats where your all going wrong, this is why 1.2 Corsas are bastard fast!

 

I often launch in neutral, don't you!?

 

hahaha cunts i didnt say i did did i, just that SOME do.

Looks like basic reading comes after sarcasm in the curriculum these days

 

Fuck neutral I sit in 4th before I slam it into first before a mega launch...

 

i was at the lights a few years back, up against some chav car. Heard him rev up, i was set to launch then when the lights went green he put it in fucking reversed and smashed the car behind him pmsl those were the days

 

I bet that was you really.....

 

In the chav car too.

 

Clearly, because neither of us said that it was you that did it.

 

How would you know, anyway? You clearly never went to school!

 

And what are u basing that statement on?

 

Obviously your intelligence on this thread.....

 

See Mat's post above.

 

About power to weight ratios and their impact on real world performance? Nope, never joked about that ever as far as im aware, tis serious subject

 

That's where the issue lies i'm afraid. I'm pretty sure he's going to get hedgehog as an answer.

 

Oh I see what you mean

His favourite colour is ham etc?

 

Is favourite colour is ham.....

 

if u say so... But the fact is a lighter car will get of the line quicker unless there is a massive difference in power. Im talking about 0-30s or 0-60s just purely of the line. The reason this is nearly ten pages long is because u are failing to realise this!

 

Santa Pod need to pick up on this... fuck the 1/4 & 1/8 mile... 30cm dash

 

Thats actually not true at all that a lighter car will be inherently quicker off the line.

The car that will be quicker off the line is the one with the winning combination of grip to weight ratio and the power to exploit that grip.

In many cases in drag racing by adding weight in the right place to increase the grip of the driven wheels you'll find your 60ft gets better even though the car is now heavier, especially if in a restricted formula where you have to try and make good use of road tyres etc.

 

Whats gets a car off the line fast is the driver! i bet i could get a 42 ton tractor and trailer off the line faster than my gran could get your mates super corsa off the line! but the corsa is much lighter!

 

 

I disagree, a car has a physical limit of how fast it can get off the line, all the driver can ever do is manage to achieve that or make it slower.
A driver cant actually make the car faster than its capable of going.

 

If you are racing 30cm, you would probably be quicker on foot than in a car

 

Possibly the funniest thread going..