Ian Griffiths

Please *don't* go to Corsa Sport if your only intention is to tell us all how crap Novas are. The fact is that a 2 litre turbo Nova overtook a presumably standard Scooby in a straight line and someone posted about it - not even the driver of the Nova, just someone who had seen the race. Not scientific, making no mention of driver skill or will to race and certainly not something to get on high horses again about how unbeatable Imprezas are. I'm sure had some corners or a standing start been involved, we'd have had a different story.

We've done this a few times before and I don't really want the whole 'yeah the Nova is quick but' thing again.

chiark

Why *should* an impreza be necessarily better than a well sorted Nova? Weight is on their side, so might they also be able to corner in quite a handy fashion?

(I can't believe I've just typed that... )

Anyhow, has anyone else thought that we don't really need any more people against us. Why antagonise people? We'll never persuade 'em that the only true way of enlightenment is to buy a scooby, so why bother just annoying people?

I think my next car will definitely be lighter than the scoob... For examples of how to humble a scoob, look at the Civic Type-R at Donington . Comparatively speaking, that was down on power but only weighed around 800kgs...

Someone, somewhere, has a grudge and we hardly need more people targeting the board.

Scoob99

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Hi guys just been looking at the Corsa/Nova bulletin board, And one of them was saying how he beat a Scoob with a courtney " litre version, Pi55ed me right off i can tell you plus they are telling us we can't drive. Are we gonna let them get away with this?????
Advice Lads please
Cheers
Colin.

Gerg2

Oh gawd not again....I'm only just recovering from the last skirmish we had with another bbs.

Dont know where this Nova bbs is so post a link and I might take a look

GaryC

..or alternatively leave them to it, and get on with an adult life


PS the Courtnay 2-litre turbo conversion can easily manage 200hp and with not much work over 250hp. That in a <900kg Nova would be quick (once the wheels stopped spinning )

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ChristianR

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what's the website? could do with a good laugh!!

The Zohan

Big deal, boys and their toys.
somewhere out there is bound to be a V8 mini which will 'do' a scoob or even a nitros Lada . It will always be the case, Mini/Nova/whatever.

Rising to it will only make their day. Hey, fair play to him/her if they can get a Nova to beat a Scoob in a straight line, that's not really what it's about though is it.

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Chris J

I believe that there is one at

TFyus

power to weight ratios would be much in favour of the nova if it is a good one...

it would be a crap car mind... but atleast a better power to weight ratio could easily be thers.

rw

MorayMackenzie

Hi guys,

Just thought it was amusing to hear about the easy 200bhp/ fairly easy 250bhp these courtenay conversion novas supposedly have... there was a recent nova rolling road day up at powerstation... i seem to recall that the most powerful car (by quite a long way) was a courtenay 2litre turbo which pushed out 213bhp at the flywheel... It was towed home as a coolant hose split when he was giving someone a demo drive.

I had a nova gte as a runabout until very recently (mr dhl white van man having now written it off )... they are fun cars and are quite quick, even with just 100bhp/90ft lb (powerstation)... the ~830kg weight obviously helps. I am tempted to buy back the car when his insurance pays up, strip it and build a track car/rally car/fun car.

Moray

ChristianR

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did u see the jeremy clarkson video where they race a nova and a rover(?) or something? both were standard, then they both suped em up.. that was quite fun to watch

ChristianR

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for a laugh:

Jza

As a friend of mine once said,

You cant make chicken salad from chicken ****

Jza

The Zohan

Jza - Nice one

I also quite like
You cannot polish a turd!

I take it it is not a BSM learner driver car then


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Hanslow

Hmmmm, so they've posted his number plate AND the fact that the observer was doing 110mph and the Nova 130mph. Obviously the Scoob was sticking to the legal limit

Now what's the telephone number for speeding offences ?

ChristianR

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just goes to show, nova drivers dont have many brain cells!!!

chiark

I'd not read the thread - that'll show me...

Seems like these boys are out to lose their license. I thought that there were documented cases of people being prosecuted after making a video of themselves being silly?

Still, is anyone *really* that spiteful?

Ian Griffiths

The only number plate posted was a show number - P1NKY, doesn't actually belong to the car and it wasn't that car anyway.

Can we *please* stop the insults. *I* don't wear a baseball cap backwards and drive at silly speeds, unlike the Subaru driver in the story.