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[quote][i]Originally posted by Paul_J[/i] Basically, the 8v cars tend to be SOHC, and 16v cars tend to be DOHC. You'll usually find that the power band on a 8v car is in the low revs, so it may feel nippy - but when racing and holding long in gears it won't be. The 16v cars tend to only really get into their power band from say 3-5.5k rpm, so although you may not get any acceleration if you floor it at 1.5k rpm in say 3rd gear, providing you have it sitting at 3.5k and change so it stays in the power in every gear it'll accelerate pretty quickly. My car is a 1.2 16v - I had it dyno'd and I'm producing 81 bhp and 95 lb ft of torque. a 1.2 8v corsa only has 45 bhp!!! Big difference. But if you are a poor driver like my mum and don't keep it in the power the 1.2 16v can feel very slow (since it has all its power in the power band, anywhere outside of this is very sluggish unlike bigger cc'd cars which pull ok ish even outside the power band) [/quote]
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