Corsa badged up as 1.2 pulled out on me on roundabout this afternoon then booted it up slip road. This thing was real fast. I own a Merc S500 which would easily keep up with my STI PPP to 60 then beat it hands down on Autobahn.This Corsa was well quick and it waltzed up to 140 (mpy) miles per year in no time! What was under bonnet? Must have been 2 litre turbo GSi motor at least!!

 

Was it grey? It's probably the famous Corsa, running a 2 litre GSi turbo setup with stupid amounts of bhp.

 

thats the thing you NEVER know what your coming up against with corsa,s astras and to a lesser extent now the old nova's

 

There are also alot of bull**** brigade Corsa drivers though a local lad has a metalic blue XE engined Corsa with a big gay bodykit and he recons its running nigh on 300bhp... He showed me the engine bay, lots of shiney bits but still running the standard throttle body.

So 300bhp from N/A XE lump on a single throttle?.. OKKKKKKKKKKKK MATEEEEE.... He wouldnt take me for a spin or have a little play he just told me "I dont drive it fast", then when he left he clearly gave it death, and for some reason all I could think about was the skin on a rice pudding?

Also used to be a lad round here with a Burgundy B reg Nova, with "1.2 Merit" on the boot... It was totally stripped out and running an XE on twin webbers.. That was fun

And this is in a tigra:



bonkers!

 

Used to be a Nova round here that was running 260bhp with a Calibra Turbo motor in it. Maddest thing I ever saw! Remember seeing it try to stop though after a quick blast along our seafront one Sunday afternoon. It smoked it brakes big time.

 

Well there's an easy answer to that, don't bother with them and save some fuel.

Honestly, this place sometimes

 

A fast piece of sh*te is still , at the end of the day, a piece of sh*te though

 

Agreed!

 

And another thing.

To have got to be clinically insane to want race on of these chaved up small cars...why?

Because I would hazzard a guess that these cars are mostly uninsured, due to undeclared mods, as there's no way the average young driver could get or afford the insurance for the mods they've got.

So in short, racing a young, immature, uninsured driver, with little road sense, in a car that was clearly not designed for the power it has, is a very quick route to jail. Remember if they crash whilst you were racing them, you'll have the book thrown at you.

Rant over.

 

Hmm, 99% are POS pimped up chav charriots driven by Barries on drugs full of thier mates on the way the mccy d's for their only hot meal of the day, it is the 1% that are the sleepers and need to be watched.

 

Why do they need to be 'watched'?

 

..I didn't see anyone specifying anything about racing on the road....

Just devils advocate..

I remember seeing some crappy old brown Nova with a XE Turbo (I assume it was an XE.. and as for crappy - it really was a crappy shell - rust and everything!) destroy an Impreza at Shakespeare raceway, the nova sat on the line - gave the impreza a good 2 to 3 second head start, and still got over the line a good 4 or 5 car lengths clear of the Impreza. I hate Nova's but even I found it funny

 

sleepers rule.
Here's the two important componants of mine.

aaaaaaand this

and FYI I'm fully declared and fully insured, so ner
astraboy.

 

XE is a n/a engine

 

apologies.. C20LET.. I guess....

*stupid vauxhalls*

 

My mates astra with c20 let engine
C20 LET engine with low comp pistons, ARP rod bolts, uprated rods, Z20 LET oil pump, uprated cams, vernier pulleys, 550cc injectors, cosworth inlet manifold, SARD fuel pressure regulator, equal length exhaust manifold, T34 stage 3 turbo (only 5 months old and done about 1000 miles), EDS phase 3.5 chips, 3.25 inch down pipe, iridium plugs and magnecor leads.

Apexi AVC-R boost controller

F28 gearbox with LSD

Full stainless 2.5in exhaust

Autometer air/fuel ratio gauge

Autometer fuel pressure gauge

Autometer oil pressure gauge

Innovate Motorsport wide band lambda sensor and gauge.

nos ( 50 bhp shot)

Hi Spec 4 pot callipers with 325mm discs and braided lines.

Intercooler with 60mm polished stainless pipework plus samcos

Astra GSi shocks with Courteney lowering springs.

17" Compomotives MO wheels in anthracite with Yokohama Parada tyres

Fusion Fabrications rear polished stainless strut brace and roll cage. -

Two Corbeau bucket seats in blue and black with blue Luke 3 point harnesses

at the last rolling road in may 2007 she ran 350.9 bhp

More mods but not certain on what

There hoping for close to 400 bhp when the phase 4 software is completed

(All figures without NOS)

 

i was actually talking about my experiences with vauxhalls and coming up against a few in my impreza at crail and once at santa pod and getting my *** handed to me,should have put that sorry

 

thats the ones i was talking about,the ones with standard wheels no bodykits etc but the only giveaways usually are a 5 stud wheel pattern from a cav turbo,theres a 1.5 td corsa near me its white looks like a normal corsa but is running over 200 bhp with the chassis sorted as well,but i agree with the pimped up chav chariot,the worst thing ever is a combat kit and small wheels

 

happened to me at santa pod but was a silver (silk violet) nova,he ended up runnin 11.something