Racing! 1.6 8v mk3 vs saxo vtr

and this is all a load of cobblers!

none of saw this race and making paper assupmtions on who should of won.

 

none of us saw it, but thats irrelevant in terms of who should have won. who actually did win isnt in question. its who should have, based on what the respective cars should have been capable of, thats under discussion.

if miss daisy drives a ferrari 360 modena but wont go over 30mph I can beat her in my scirocco. Doesnt mean that my scirocco is faster than the ferrari though!

now if the bloke wasnt trying, then he should have won. but there seems to be some confusion over this.

and wez, I was asking if it was the same engine as my rocco, because I hadnt seen the mk3 bit in the title while I was guffawing at 75bhp beating a saxo VTR

either:

1) thats no ordinary 1.6 75bhp mk3 golf
2) it was a very ordinary and probably not VTR saxo (or a fecked one)
3) saxo man wasnt trying / couldnt drive
4) the original post is a load of cobblers

But not the replies!
Edited by: Jeff

 

which is about as useful as a carb, except in emissions terms.

 

what i was trying to say in less words, i couldn't be bothered to type any more about it, as it is indeed cobblers

 

yep...and that they don't keep needing to be set up. basically a electric carb, but give much poorer throttle response.

 

my old 75bhp car used to stick to vtr's....

1.4gs metro (my 1st car and was free off my uncle ) 75bhp in a tin shell

don't know if the same power engine in a mk3 would do the same though!

 

you could probably put pedals on a metrol and keep up with a lot of things, they weigh so little

jonboy I thought you were saying the opposite!

 

I stick with my opening post!

 

there's something just not quite right about this thread, for one...

lighter car, more power, no heavy install - he would have obliterated a 1.6 8v mk3 golf

and...

full throttle gear changes? around town? from 1st gear into reverse or what?






Edited by: darrynK

 

Yeah.. the 'racing around town' helped me pen my 1st reply!

 

Fukkin town racers....WTF is the point?

 

You canna beat a VTR in a 1.6 mk3, simple as that. However in a 1.8 mk2 driver

 

no worries i was trying to stay out of it!

 

well i did??

 

racing through a town is just asking for trouble

 

at near 1am with no one about i dont see much harm.. was going no faster than 60 neways

 

lol

 

It only takes one person to step into the street at an inopertune moment.

Things like that ruin others lives.

I'm not saying i'm innocent but i never blat it round inner city/town long out of town roads are the places to do things like that.

At least there isn't as much risk of someone ending up under your wheels.

 

would i be right in saying you passed your test relatively recently? (please say yes)

we all did stupid things when we were younger, but trust me, stick to (well) below 40mph in 30mph zones...or you'll either kill someone or loose your licence.

 

Sound advice