Went out for a drive yest and was blown away by a CORSA of all cars, After he thrashed me a inch away from life we pulled up in a pub car park where he explained he had a 2lt red top turbo under the bonnet pushing 300bhp++++

I was amazed by how quick it was.......

 

red top turbo or not....it's still a Corsa

ask for a re-match on a wet day

 

Ahhhh.... the old C20LET engine out of a Cav/Cally turbo

300bhp is very easy to achieve, equivalent torque figures as well. Huge amounts of understeer and no control of course, but like a bullet in a straight line

 

Not really a revelation.

Both cars are rolling so the 4WD becomes a liability in a straight line. The scoob is going to weigh far more than the Corsa so the corsa probably has a considerable power to weight advantage.

 

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LMFAO - Typical Scooby owners response

 

Hahahahaha.....pleeeease lets not have another one of "them" threads :P

 

was that aimed at me Edd?

If so I disagree... the Corsa will be spinning up it's wheels on every corner trying to get all those 300 horses down in the wet... you don't need to be doing a standing quarter to use 4x4 advantage...

 

Power to weight simple as that and ur right as soon as we hit a corner i was up his *** in no time but in a straight line it was unreal !!

 

and an accurate one

The scooby has usable power, not stupid "straight line point and squirt" OTT pocket rocket power...

 

No one mentioned the twisties yet?

Tony

 

Hahahahahaha

Damn you, you beat me to it - heheheheh

 

come on lads it must be quite rewarding to spank a scoob in a race ...
My hat goes off to the lad in the corsa bet its a right laugh to drive

 

Had a little play with one of these a year or so ago when mine was about 300bhp and before it weng bang

It was up my rear end on every straight, but lagged on corners.

We stopped alongside each other at a roundabout on a dual carriageway after and paid mutual respect.

He wouldn't see me for dust now

 

Had a little play with one of these a year or so ago when mine was about 300bhp and before it weng bang

It was up my rear end on every straight, but lagged on corners.

We stopped alongside each other at a roundabout on a dual carriageway after and paid mutual respect.

He wouldn't see me for dust now

 

I had a play with one of these the other day... needless to say..it was wet..and the road wasn't straight... and guess what... it wasn't a problem...(hence my initial post)

 

Was followed by a 360 Modena approx for 4.4 miles on a road with a mix of straights and bends.He wanted to pass but could'nt.He followed me home and i looked at his car while he looked at mine.

 

I did realise my post would cause such a debate lol in all everyone is right coz round a corner I was in a beta position and in a straight line he was, In all id neva have a corsa ova my scoob but it did look to be great fun I must say !!!!

 

Yeah corsa's can be fun when tuned! But for an all rounder SCOOBY all day

 

You have a lard **** newage with <300bhp what did you expect?

The corsa would probably be quicker overall on a track too lol

 

i agree,my mate has a 2.0 corsa and its set up well,prob not quite 300bhp but last time he was at castle coombe he was spanking scoobs/evos etc!

 

LOL

dunx

P.S. I also reckon you'd survive an incident, whereas he'd be lining his crumpled crisp packet...

 

A mate had similar on his bike the other week.

" what engines do mk1 golfs have"

"I was doing 140 indicated and he could pull away"

LOL

Told him he should try harder

 

mate, hot little hatches with the bigger 2 ltr lumps in them are a match for a lot of quick cars once the power is down.

 

Totally different cars so its bound to be different with corners and wetness invloved, the OP was only saying how quick the corsa was in a straight line ffs

a corsa with 300bhp and lightweight will most likely have more power/weight anyway, good luck to the fella, nowt hurting.

 

yeh and a corsa with cav turbo 4x4 running gear and 300bhp would tear most scoobs a new ringpiece its all about power to weight ratio but traction does play a massive part . if you cant put the power to the ground you aint going nowhere in a hurry . demonstrated very well by chavs lighting up the front wheels at the lights when the spot a scoob or evo . i dont bother with them anymore just pull away as normal lol does thier heads in

 

I still quite like launching on boost in those kind of situations, especially in the wet.

 

dont forget them pesky nissan pulsars ...........

 

Haven't heard off any Corsas running the Cav turbo running gear. If there are any it must be a very small handfull

The transfer boxes were really weak on the Cavalier/Calibras, so 300bhp would probably kill it.

 

mark dennis down our way has done it with a nova . 2ltr let turbo 4x4 from a cav with 6speed group n box to say it shifts is a understatment . bearing in mind it weighs sod all its to be expected. matrix on here knows him and also ran a cav turbo 4x4 6speed with well over 300bhp which was bought by a lad in the army who spent a fortune on it and 1/4miled it against cossies etc