What should a STI7 PPP do the quarter mile in?
30 March 2006, 10:41 AM
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Originally Posted by ewanrw
They said themselves that to get the claimed figures from the WR1 you had to spank it within an inch of it's life and beyond, and they would not recommend that owners do this repeatedly (if at all). I imagine that achieving the claimed figures for the other models will involve a similarly brutal treatment of engine/clutch/gearbox.
30 March 2006, 12:09 PM
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Originally Posted by ewanrw
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30 March 2006, 01:03 PM
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Originally Posted by ewanrw
30 March 2006, 02:54 PM
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Originally Posted by Scratch
Never known anyone other than Prodrive achieve these sort of figures though (without further mods).
They said themselves that to get the claimed figures from the WR1 you had to spank it within an inch of it's life and beyond, and they would not recommend that owners do this repeatedly (if at all). I imagine that achieving the claimed figures for the other models will involve a similarly brutal treatment of engine/clutch/gearbox.
They said themselves that to get the claimed figures from the WR1 you had to spank it within an inch of it's life and beyond, and they would not recommend that owners do this repeatedly (if at all). I imagine that achieving the claimed figures for the other models will involve a similarly brutal treatment of engine/clutch/gearbox.
30 March 2006, 04:36 PM
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Originally Posted by Neilo
IIRC, something like bounching it off the limiter then dump the clutch, full throttle changes etc....you only want to do that once
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30 March 2006, 09:18 PM
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We didn't do a PPP for STI until 2002MY which would make it an STi8..............
Martin
Any figures we quote are taken on our track and are done in a similar way to the magazines. One car did about 150 launches and still didn't break or wear out anything but we don't slip the clutch.
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Any figures we quote are taken on our track and are done in a similar way to the magazines. One car did about 150 launches and still didn't break or wear out anything but we don't slip the clutch.
Mike
31 March 2006, 06:44 PM
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i did a 13.4 in an sti 8 ppp without launchin 2 hard.
my m8 nex 2 me launched the f u k out of his and got a 13.1
my m8 nex 2 me launched the f u k out of his and got a 13.1
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Originally Posted by Neilo
what does that tell you Alex.........
As I said, I didn't want to not spank the **** off it! Would have liked to get better than 14.7 though.
Need a little more practice I think!
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