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Mats · Post by **Mats** » Mon Jun 11, 2007 9:38 pm

Your little sprint yes.

Not so interesting fact: My GTV does 0-100Km/h in 7.8 seconds.

grant · Post by **grant** » Tue Jun 12, 2007 1:29 am

That's pretty good. That's like half of the time as stock?

Quicker than my 3.0 atleast.

Nikoror · Post by **Nikoror** » Tue Jun 12, 2007 5:59 am

half the time as stock??? can you imagince alfa making a 15sec 0-100 car with gtv in it's name....
should be sub 10 from the factory... maybe 9.5

Fernando · Post by **Fernando** » Tue Jun 12, 2007 6:13 am

Z nice to see you giving a Scooby a spanking,1cm or 500 miles,a victory is a victory...

That is what makes these impromptu street dices so interesting because the so called logical form book gets chucked right out of the window.

I have only ever raced two Scooby's on the road and both times were with my 3.5 12V motor.One I won and one I lost.The one I lost was me sitting with too much wheelspin in 1st,2nd and only in 3rd could I peg the gap to him.Unfortunatly we hit traffic and had to give each other the thumbs up.I found out later that this particular STI was highly modded by a company in SA called Nxgen.My mate was good friends with the owner of said company at the time.

Didn't bother me losing as I hadn't really expected a N/A car to beat a turbocharged one at our elevated altitude anyway.

The Scooby I did beat one Friday night was also a WRX STI but I didn't exactly hand him a can of whip ass but pipped him by a half a car length from a rolling start from 1st well into 4th gear one Friday evening.

Mat's that's a pretty good time for a 2 litre N/A motor.

grant · Post by **grant** » Tue Jun 12, 2007 8:06 am

Nikoror wrote:half the time as stock??? can you imagince alfa making a 15sec 0-100 car with gtv in it's name....
should be sub 10 from the factory... maybe 9.5

Dude, let's see you get an stock American Alfetta GTV to 60mph in under 12 seconds...and I'm not joking. I have never owned one, but I've got atleast 6 road tests on them by different magazines. The Alfetta GTV was slower than the car it replaced, but you also must understand everything was slow in the alte 70's, uncluding firebirds with 380+ cubic inches and 140hp.

Nikoror · Post by **Nikoror** » Tue Jun 12, 2007 11:22 am

don't know about us version, but the car in europe has a stated horsepower of 130 and a weight of about 1100kg. you do the math.
about everything being slow in the 70's i can imagine us cars with 3500lbs steel frames were slow, but euro cars were quite often sub 1ton. there were a lot of fast cars in that period. lancia stratos

Mats · Post by **Mats** » Tue Jun 12, 2007 11:33 am

Fernando wrote:
Mat's that's a pretty good time for a 2 litre N/A motor.

It's not so bad considering it's got 130Hp if I'm lucky.

grant · Post by **grant** » Tue Jun 12, 2007 12:29 pm

Plus I think 130DIN = like 117 HP. Alfas, and other cars of the period, were overrated.

Mats · Post by **Mats** » Tue Jun 12, 2007 12:37 pm

More like the other way around actually.

Post by **Zamani** » Tue Jun 12, 2007 1:37 pm

Did you guys check out one of the recent articles in..hmmm.... I .forgot...maybe European Car or Sport Compact Car magazine, the Audi 2.0T FSI Quattro had 146 wbhp. That is pretty low for a 200 bhp car. With a chip, it was still lower than 200 wbhp.

grant · Post by **grant** » Tue Jun 12, 2007 3:18 pm

Mats, you mean 117 Din = 130 HP? If so, that's the opposite of everything I've read in the states I think.

Mats · Post by **Mats** » Tue Jun 12, 2007 10:21 pm

DIN= Power with all the ancillaries on the engine
SAE= Power with external ancillaries

That's why the SAE numbers usually are rated higher.

Z: with US gas?

Maybe it was on Barrys dyno (6000 feet, remember)? Sorry Barry! Couldn't resist!

grant · Post by **grant** » Wed Jun 13, 2007 12:20 am

Zamani wrote:Did you guys check out one of the recent articles in..hmmm.... I .forgot...maybe European Car or Sport Compact Car magazine, the Audi 2.0T FSI Quattro had 146 wbhp. That is pretty low for a 200 bhp car. With a chip, it was still lower than 200 wbhp.

Wait, I thought that wasn't too rediculous for an AWD car? I dunno, what do Evo's/Subbies get?

Micke · Post by **Micke** » Wed Jun 13, 2007 12:36 am

DIN = Deutschland Invented Number

Mats · Post by **Mats** » Wed Jun 13, 2007 12:51 am

Zamani wrote:Did you guys check out one of the recent articles in..hmmm.... I .forgot...maybe European Car or Sport Compact Car magazine, the Audi 2.0T FSI Quattro had 146 wbhp. That is pretty low for a 200 bhp car. With a chip, it was still lower than 200 wbhp.

200 wheel hp? You mean they expected to see 200 wheel hp? lol.