Ciaran

iTrader: (16)

what does everyone think and have u had one?

Andy Tang

iTrader: (3)

I've not had one, but they are quite a rare car, with the added bonus of out accelarating a mk2 Golf 16v up to 60mph from their 'puny' 1.3 engines!

At least that's what I remember reading at the time!!

Ciaran

iTrader: (16)

thinking of buying a mates not standard has all the cams 4 brancher lightened bottom end and chipped kicking out about 150bhp all 4 1k

weird thing u said about the golf as i had a mk2 16v sittin outside until a couple of months ago!

falkster

How on gods earth can you get 150bhp out of a swift??? I had one when I was 19 and it was chipped, cams and pipe etc and was pushing out 133 on the rollers.

Was a flying machine for a 1.3 and, at the time, confused lots of other road users.

Ciaran

iTrader: (16)

well is basically a race spec engine and not %100 of every mod thats been done but the sheet shows the results!

MooseRacer

If it's a genuine 150bhp then that's a very trick engine.

Ciaran

iTrader: (16)

well mate has the graph showing it has all the usual uprated brakes cluth etc.
engine is from a smashed swift which was used for rallying!

tad usless in the wet as 1st 2nd and third it's aboot impossible to get the power down!

mikelmr

must have cr@p tyres then 150bhp at the flywheel in fwd car isn't exactly unusual for a near standard 80's/90's hot hatch

gossythevaleter

They are greatlittle cars

Had one for 2 yrs the guy that bought it from us and is still runnin on same engine with 180 000 on the clock goes to france and belgium in it once a month too

There is a guy in Bristol does a lod of mods for these cars too

MooseRacer

urm Astra and........

falkster

Not usual for a car weighing the same amount as a crisp packet with only 1300cc under the bonnet

AllanB

Great little cars but getting rare like its nemesis the Charade GTti.


AllanB

skiddus_markus

That's excellent bhp/litre-modern cars struggle to get that and I think they only weigh 800/900kg so bhp/ton is superior too.

I can't think of many 80/90's hothatches getting 150bhp in NA form other than the GTE.The 90's saw the RS2000,Sunny GTi,Rover 200's all around the 150 mark but needed 2litres to do it.The CRX was around that too with 1.6litres.
Cars from last part of 90's started performing a bit better but still not many over 150bhp.

MooseRacer

The more I think about it, the more i'm shall we say a little dubious - that's 115bhp/litre from a n/a motor.

Ciaran

iTrader: (16)

well all u have to do is have a seach about these cars through the net some running turbos and stuff meant to be doing seriously fast 1/4 in australia not sure about the times though.

also as the man says that much power in a light car with little weight across the front wheel makes very hard work getting grip!