maybe we should ask prodrive how they did it?? ive now looked at the times for the wrx ppp and they are damm close to the sti aswell??


hawk

 

does it really matter though?

To me 0-100, 0-60 times are completely useless.

What matters is in gear acceleration time, these would be much more usefull if the magazines, manufacturers printed these. It's good to see Prodrive do supply these figures. http://www.prodrive.com/uploads/03MY%20STi%20PPP.pdf

According to the road dyno on Delta Dash, 2 up with half a tank of fuel mine does.

In Gear Acceleration 3rd gear:
STi5RA STi8PPP STi8Standard
30 - 50mph = 2.4 seconds 2.7 seconds 2.9 seconds
40 - 60mph = 2.0 seconds 2.4 seconds 2.4 seconds
50 - 70mph = 2.1 seconds 2.6 seconds 2.7 seconds

In Gear Acceleration 4th gear:
STi5RA STi8PPP STi8Standard
40 - 60mph = 3.0 seconds 3.1 seconds 3.9 seconds
50 - 70mph = 2.6 seconds 3.0 seconds 3.4 seconds
60 - 80mph = 2.6 seconds 3.2 seconds 3.9 seconds
70 - 90mph = 2.9 seconds 3.5 seconds 4.2 seconds

so 30-90 takes 7.4 seconds in a 300BHP STi5 TypeRA using 3rd and 4th, an STi8PPP takes 8.8 seconds and an standard STi8 TypeUK takes 9.8 seconds using the same gears.

That kind of puts into perspective how shatering the performance of a very mildly tuned RA is with an almost identical power/torque curve to an STi8PPP and how it absolutely eats for breakfast a stock STi8 TypeUK. It also shows how fast in the real world an STi8PPP is. Those are impresive figures for a heavy saloon car, especially when you consider the allround ability the car has.

[Edited by johnfelstead - 10/4/2003 4:03:47 PM]

 

thanks for the info john, nice to see you again ( virtually anyways & i hope yr car is now well) interesting stuff I agree that in gear speeds are more real world than the 0-100 etc pub talk stuff it was just that figures didnt seem to stack up



thanks all

hawk


ps john if you read this I appreciate a bit of valued help with a brake problem i have, ive posted it in the relevant section

[Edited by hawkeye - 10/14/2003 3:42:31 PM]