RACE?

Tue Mar 08, 2005 11:30 pm

well you must drive better than the guy in the astra

Wed Mar 09, 2005 2:42 am

Simon13 wrote:well you must drive better than the guy in the astra

yep i think so to....

hear the astra GSI 16V is also a big oponent and i must say for the siz of the engine the thing rocks...a few modds and away it goes ....

but bm have the advantage of rwd and thus slower corner entering but faster exit this meaning a lttle advantage on fwd ...

Wed Mar 09, 2005 9:43 am

Honda Civic Type R - Molested it

Honda Civic old style vtec - Mutilated it

E30 325i Sport - Got smaller very quickly in rear view mirror

Lexus Gs300 - beat it off the lights and just kept pulling away

Ford Sierra Cossie making huge turbo noises - Pulling away ever so slowly.

I should mention I'm driving my M5 these days

Wed Mar 09, 2005 12:25 pm

M5pilot wrote:
Ford Sierra Cossie making huge turbo noises - Pulling away ever so slowly.

I should mention I'm driving my M5 these days

Wed Mar 09, 2005 6:31 pm

best one was in my starlet turbo... At a set of lights and a civic type R came up behind me on trade plate. Quite obvious it was a guy on a test drive as you could see the salesman say something along the lines of (take on that little black boy racer) so he pulled into the 3rd lane (lanes merge 200m down the road). Lights go amber, civic gets decimated. I wonder if he ever bought it??

I pulled away from a focus st170 from 30-80 in the iS, wasn't expecting this!

Wed Mar 09, 2005 6:35 pm

Dom wrote:I pulled away from a focus st170 from 30-80 in the iS, wasn't expecting this!

Thats cos they are w*nk

Wed Mar 09, 2005 7:27 pm

i used to bate imprezas in my old 2.7.

had i few races since. had an e30 with a 3.5 in a few months back, heres some races. mulered vectras, cavaliers etc.

honda civic R - e30 was slightly quicker

323i e36 - went past at around 90, he then got lost in my mirror

e34 m5 - killed me to 50, evens to around 85, he then pulls away

celcia gt4 - i couldnt get near him

like sal i also had an m5 a few months back. as follows

impreza - waved to him as i past at around 110

golf mk 5, r32 - evens, but he had some amd stickers on(tuned)

mk 2 fiesta - slowed and waited till he was up my ass at around 45mph(tacho at around 4k in second). the rest is history.

535i sport(e34) - not much in it till 60 mph, but i killed him after that

Wed Mar 09, 2005 7:34 pm

Jon ive been tryin to call u--u lost ure phone again LOL

can u please give me a bell on 07946 390067

cheers
Karan

Sun Mar 13, 2005 6:21 pm

well you ll be glad to know that i tried at a 308gts ( 250ch ) and i'm dead the same ewxcepte on start where i pull slightly , very slightly away...
on the road i'm stuck to its back and start tu overtake aroud 210 to get overtaken again at 230 ....lool so it wwas real fun especially as at the lights the guys snobed my bm

so he had me going there

really thought id get blown off , but after a ferari lover told me waht it was i was satisfied of my 2L5

imagine what karan would have done with his 318

pour ferari

Sun Mar 13, 2005 6:30 pm

woohoo!!!

great work greg!!!

ure car is fookin quick--i have seeen the vid, not much difference to mine until u hit 3rd gear.

must have felt great whooping a ferrari

Karan

Mon Mar 14, 2005 1:37 am

actually just passed it at 200 210 on the highway but once we got of and hit the country roads ( thanks mtech chassis

) i got the car just holding him and being really able to play faire ...

felt great , but i must say probably the ferari first day out since a long long time ...carbs smoke a little black at high revs

but , i mean , sunday afternoon, Sunshine , not much cars on the roads, and i come acros this great looking car that actually wanted to feal the metal

during our most unpredicted outrun, we crossed a carrera GT going the other way ( no dreams , he be at 200, id still be puting my first in

) 2 rolls , a bentley ....a rgeat day, i'm so pi...ed i didn't have my cam...

Tue Mar 15, 2005 8:49 am

jonb wrote: 535i sport(e34) - not much in it till 60 mph, but i killed him after that

I raced one the other day on the English Nuburgring (aka A406 North Circular). He couldnt get near me! Everytime I slowed down for speed cameras and then went a bit slolwy so that he could catch up he kept trying it. 50mph, 2nd gear........press the super long accelrator to the floor and the 535i is no where to be seen again.

Did the same to a 530i Sport E39. He rudely pulled out infront of me, flashed is hazards and then booted it. I think he got quite upset when he saw plain looking e34 incoming and had to pull over and hear this silent car sounding car go past.

Looking for a E39 540i now to race, aparently thats going to be very close!

Tue Mar 15, 2005 11:33 am

M5pilot wrote:
jonb wrote: 535i sport(e34) - not much in it till 60 mph, but i killed him after that
I raced one the other day on the English Nuburgring (aka A406 North Circular). He couldnt get near me! Everytime I slowed down for speed cameras and then went a bit slolwy so that he could catch up he kept trying it. 50mph, 2nd gear........press the super long accelrator to the floor and the 535i is no where to be seen again.

Did the same to a 530i Sport E39. He rudely pulled out infront of me, flashed is hazards and then booted it. I think he got quite upset when he saw plain looking e34 incoming and had to pull over and hear this silent car sounding car go past.

Looking for a E39 540i now to race, aparently thats going to be very close!

An e34 535 sport isnt really a "sports" car is it?..So an M5 is going to kill it,having said that its still a markedly quicker car than a (standard) 325, will a similar performance to a (standard) e30 M3 (???)

Book for a 535(manual) is 0-60 in the 7's and 147MPH top speed.

I sold my 325 and the same day got my 535, it is a noticeably quicker car than the 325

A few of the guys on the 5 forum have chipped their 540's, an easy 300+BHP apparently....

What do you reckon to the new 535 "d" M5Pilot?, 0-60 in the 5's apparently and standing qtrs in the high 13's....They are going to surprise a few people thats for sure...

Tue Mar 15, 2005 11:19 pm

my friend was in my bmw and i was in my saab 9000 s turbo
and at 70 ish he beeped and we both dropped a gear and i had a half a car lentgh but then i looked for him and he then started disapearing...in front of me!

Tue Mar 15, 2005 11:39 pm

psychochild187 wrote:my friend was in my bmw and i was in my saab 9000 s turbo
and at 70 ish he beeped and we both dropped a gear and i had a half a car lentgh but then i looked for him and he then started disapearing...in front of me!

excuse my ignorance , but what the engine on the saab ?
must be fun racing ( wantingly ) your own car

Tue Mar 15, 2005 11:40 pm

2.0 16v turbo in the saab

Wed Mar 16, 2005 7:23 am

I was at a race track today with my 323i and went out at the same time as 2 Corvette's ( I think early 90's, maybe 80's?). One of them spun on the 3rd corner and I went passed, from then on as far as I could tell in my mirror I lapped about the same speed. Someone watching from the side said I was slowly pulling away. Anyway it was fun to be quicker than a much more powerfull car.

There was also a Holden Commodore SS (similar to the Vaxhual Omega but with a GM 5.7L V8 and about 300hp to 350hp) and for the first few runs I was slowly catching him, after that I couldn't tell because we were too far apart.

I was also about 0.5sec a lap slower than my Father in his Lancer Evolution VI but he was taking it a bit easy because he got car sick

.

Aston

Wed Mar 16, 2005 7:55 am

I forgot to mention that I was also about 1.8sec a lap slower than the lap record for the Holden Gemini (I think Isuzu actuall made them?) series that runs there

. In my defence all I can say is that they are full race cars with, stripped out interior (weigh 950kg with driver), modified suspension and alignment, race tyres (not slicks but very close, actually Yokohama A032R), and some engine modifications (exhaust, cam, maybe some other stuff).

Aston

Wed Mar 16, 2005 1:31 pm

Afternoon guys.

Although I am a distant member of the forum i still regularly keep an eye out on whats going on. I saw this thread and thought id post my experiences....in the WILLIAMS.

As some of you know I had a nice example of the Hartge H26, a fairly rapid car - good top speed, decent accel etc etc. I had beaten many cars in that during the odd race, and im all over the torque and straight six noise.

However I now own a Clio Williams 2.0 16v (6th Best Drivers car as voted by EVO) (BM baiting here!!

) This is not a slow car by any means and have skinned many a BM around my local roads.
I find that the skill is in beating them / getting away from them around the lanes rather than just planting the right foot on a straight and letting 6 cylinders do all the work.
I think if you were to race a Williams away from a two mile straight you'd be pleasently surprised.

But still at Santa Pod I have beaten:

Golf R32
Civic Type R's
205 Mi16
E30 325i

Wed Mar 16, 2005 8:55 pm

beat a fiat 600 it was very close about a bumpers gap in it.
but mine did have a V shape in the side and was being towed,
(backwards of corse)

Wed Mar 16, 2005 10:54 pm

Geoff wrote:Afternoon guys.

Although I am a distant member of the forum i still regularly keep an eye out on whats going on. I saw this thread and thought id post my experiences....in the WILLIAMS.

As some of you know I had a nice example of the Hartge H26, a fairly rapid car - good top speed, decent accel etc etc. I had beaten many cars in that during the odd race, and im all over the torque and straight six noise.

However I now own a Clio Williams 2.0 16v (6th Best Drivers car as voted by EVO) (BM baiting here!! ) This is not a slow car by any means and have skinned many a BM around my local roads.
I find that the skill is in beating them / getting away from them around the lanes rather than just planting the right foot on a straight and letting 6 cylinders do all the work.
I think if you were to race a Williams away from a two mile straight you'd be pleasently surprised.

But still at Santa Pod I have beaten:

Golf R32
Civic Type R's
205 Mi16
E30 325i

What is the Clio Williams? I know someone with a Renault Clio (not sure what sort, but one of the sport versions), they were at a track once when I was there. They did 1:23.5 I was doing 1:21.7. To be fair I think his was standard when I have slightly lower springs and Koni dampers, but the Clio was faster than me in a straight line.

Aston

Thu Mar 17, 2005 8:32 am

FYI: www.williamsclio.co.uk

Thu Mar 24, 2005 2:46 pm

Not had much opertunity to race really as I've only had the 318i for a couple of months. Pulled up alongside an e36 318i and though that it would be a nice test. Gave him the obligitory nod and he pulled up. A little fish tailing off the line and he was history, big time. He wasn't happy. His lovely shiny red e36 beaten by a very sorry looking. Score for the e30s!

Another time I was driving up the motorway in convoy. My 318i, a civic estate aerodeck 1.8 vtec and an accord saloon 2.0i

I was the slowest of the bunch unsuprisingly in the 60 - 120 area but a week or so later we tried some drags, just me and the civic and I plastered it off the line, all the way up to about 90. Although this guy couldn't get himself off the line very well at all. So I guess with a better driver I wouldn't have got so much of a lead, if any.

Won't be long before I piss all over him though, unichip, maf, and supercharger are still in the works

Ohh, I love it!

Thu Mar 24, 2005 3:17 pm

I got overtaken in a 30 limit the other day by a Punto GT with SLUT-DOG in foot high letters across the back window. Got to the end of the 30 and gunned it after him, went past at about 120(old roman road) with my four mates mooning and gesturing at him pissing ourselves. He caught me up when I got stuck behind traffic and overtook approaching a blind corner, luckily the focus that came round the corner was holding up the elan behind. He might have 'won' but I think he learnt his lesson.

Thu Mar 24, 2005 3:47 pm

My cab is only a 320i I've beaten lots of chav efforts and rep mobiles and other mainstream crap.

I do distictively remember been whooped off the line by a 130bhp vectra. That annoyed the sh!t out of me. esp as it pulled into the place I was going for a job interview at!!!

I would love to do some serious upgrading but I have greater priorites with the car (a new roof, a dent in the front valence to fix) and no real cash reserve to call on!!!

Oh well, I guess I'll have to stick to looking cool!!

Thu Mar 24, 2005 4:23 pm

bryang wrote:
M5pilot wrote:
jonb wrote: 535i sport(e34) - not much in it till 60 mph, but i killed him after that
I raced one the other day on the English Nuburgring (aka A406 North Circular). He couldnt get near me! Everytime I slowed down for speed cameras and then went a bit slolwy so that he could catch up he kept trying it. 50mph, 2nd gear........press the super long accelrator to the floor and the 535i is no where to be seen again.

Did the same to a 530i Sport E39. He rudely pulled out infront of me, flashed is hazards and then booted it. I think he got quite upset when he saw plain looking e34 incoming and had to pull over and hear this silent car sounding car go past.

Looking for a E39 540i now to race, aparently thats going to be very close!
An e34 535 sport isnt really a "sports" car is it?..So an M5 is going to kill it,having said that its still a markedly quicker car than a (standard) 325, will a similar performance to a (standard) e30 M3 (???)

Book for a 535(manual) is 0-60 in the 7's and 147MPH top speed.

I sold my 325 and the same day got my 535, it is a noticeably quicker car than the 325

A few of the guys on the 5 forum have chipped their 540's, an easy 300+BHP apparently....

What do you reckon to the new 535 "d" M5Pilot?, 0-60 in the 5's apparently and standing qtrs in the high 13's....They are going to surprise a few people thats for sure...

535i sport is defo faster than a standard 325i sport. E30 feels faster though.
535D is a brute, I was behind one in the M5, wasnt racing but he obvioulsy was trying to get somewhere quickly (company meeting etc etc) and put his foot down.......I was very surprised at how quickly he dissapeared. MASSIVE TORQUE! I want one.