Novaneil
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To be fair though Mark, 95% of people are still struggling to get near Jamie's long standing figure.
Excuse my lack of Ford knowledge.... Jamie? Would this be the Jamie with the Blue RST from a few years back (Jamsport)??? I remember that thing from TOTB a few years back, Awesome Car!!! 400bhp+ wasn't it?
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TBF it might do it, but there a diffrence it seems to having a very fast vaux, and the fastest RST
dont know why, just will allways be that way
we have had this discussion many times at work, there is no major following with the vaux like the fords. i mean vaux boys dont want to spend a penny, granted you get a few who do, i.e. you, me dave etc...... but on the whole theres just not so much passion for speed 
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To be fair though Mark, 95% of people are still struggling to get near Jamie's long standing figure.
Excuse my lack of Ford knowledge.... Jamie? Would this be the Jamie with the Blue RST from a few years back (Jamsport)??? I remember that thing from TOTB a few years back, Awesome Car!!! 400bhp+ wasn't it?
yeah thats him
1.9 cvh on throttle bodies and turbo, 350bhp ish!
1st to get 1/4 miles in the 13's
1st to do 160+ mph
been off the road pretty much since!
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jr
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yep mark, i suppose its also that the RS brand is massive, and for 20 years people have had the oppretuniyt to build the fastest RS about, vauxhall havent run a sporting brand thats decent for that amount of time to even get near that
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robin the SVM car was the white 2 on venoms that was jacked up at the back and was set up by leda for drag racing, was in the 12's iirc
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Rob B
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Reyland escort had trouble at donnington i think aswell...sierra was going well though.
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indeed, its a shame.... there is a lot of potential, we need more andy hamiltons to spur people into thinking that tuning a corsa/nova isnt just about dropping a c20xe in.
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Reyland escort had trouble at donnington i think aswell...sierra was going well though.
on the 29th or a while ago rob ?
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there's more than enough cars to persuade TV to do something similar though, surely?
not just on here, but MIG and all the rest, loads of big power turbos and 200 + bhp 1.6s which would also be entertaining...
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indeed, its a shame.... there is a lot of potential, we need more andy hamiltons to spur people into thinking that tuning a corsa/nova isnt just about dropping a c20xe in.
 very true, and a LET with phase software isnt the end of tuning turbo vauxhalls
Adam F/Muppetpsort/Rickdraper etc are the people who are building mental cars, but the problem is you can remember all the mental vauxhalls, there isnt many 
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there's more than enough cars to persuade TV to do something similar though, surely?
not just on here, but MIG and all the rest, loads of big power turbos and 200 + bhp 1.6s which would also be entertaining...
how many 200+ 1.6's do you know of?
there is a few c20lets with good power and a few c20xe's with good power.....
Dougie contacted me a while ago about some airfield thrash and vxon are sorting somethig
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indeed, its a shame.... there is a lot of potential, we need more andy hamiltons to spur people into thinking that tuning a corsa/nova isnt just about dropping a c20xe in.
very true, and a LET with phase software isnt the end of tuning turbo vauxhalls
Adam F/Muppetpsort/Rickdraper etc are the people who are building mental cars, but the problem is you can remember all the mental vauxhalls, there isnt many
how many lets run standalone for exaple! answer......... not many!
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yeah when i spoke to dougie at the RR day he said about the sites chip is involved withare going to sort somthing
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be nice to know when/if something is going to happen! see if we can get some 1.6's out there
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looks gd and some very cool card but some of the times arent that overly impressive, yes they are impressive for the size of the engine so in clases i think they would win hands down but there are some very fast corsa`s on here that im sure would give them a gd run for there money!
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Originally posted by Robin
there's more than enough cars to persuade TV to do something similar though, surely?
not just on here, but MIG and all the rest, loads of big power turbos and 200 + bhp 1.6s which would also be entertaining...
how many 200+ 1.6's do you know of?
there is a few c20lets with good power and a few c20xe's with good power.....
Dougie contacted me a while ago about some airfield thrash and vxon are sorting somethig
I think there's a lot more Powerful LET's out there than you think.... And XE's..... There's hundreds over the 200bhp @ Wheels figure.... (Mind you 80% are in Kit Cars  )
Admittedly we're still miles behind the Blue Oval lot for out and out power
[Edited on 31-12-2006 by Novaneil]
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be nice to know when/if something is going to happen! see if we can get some 1.6's out there
im sure the critria for it ruled out anything sub 300bhp or something silly
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broster
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Originally posted by broster
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Originally posted by Robin
there's more than enough cars to persuade TV to do something similar though, surely?
not just on here, but MIG and all the rest, loads of big power turbos and 200 + bhp 1.6s which would also be entertaining...
how many 200+ 1.6's do you know of?
there is a few c20lets with good power and a few c20xe's with good power.....
Dougie contacted me a while ago about some airfield thrash and vxon are sorting somethig
I think there's a lot more Powerful LET's out there than you think.... And XE's..... There's hundreds over the 200bhp @ Wheels figure.... (Mind you 80% are in Kit Cars )
Admittedly we're still miles behind the Blue Oval lot for out and out power
[Edited on 31-12-2006 by Novaneil]
there is but my 200+ comment was aimed at the 1.6 engine.
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Oh I see....
But saying that Power isn't everything.... Oli (DHDev) he posts on here. Has just 164bhp from his 1.6 16v and yet his PB 1/4 is 13.8!!! Which beats a lot of these boys with over double the power!
And my Turbo'd 1.6 8v used to do a 14.1 and when it was running rough
[Edited on 31-12-2006 by Novaneil]
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be nice to know when/if something is going to happen! see if we can get some 1.6's out there
im sure the critria for it ruled out anything sub 300bhp or something silly
to be honest thats daft! your not going to get that kind of power from people who tune, only people who have dumped a c20let in a corsa and spent some money on phase software. wheres the tuning skill in that, daddy thrash is good, it proves tuners, its what keeps the tuners going in the ford world. the vauxhall world is all:
" me and my mate bob build this rotten nova in my shed with some left over kitchen forks from my days at McDonalds, got 490218bhp from it too......yawn yawn yawn"
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broster
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Oh I see....
But saying that Power isn't everything.... Oli (DHDev) he posts on here. Has just 164bhp from his 1.6 16v and yet his PB 1/4 is 13.8!!! Which beats a lot of these boys with over double the power!
yes agreed, but look at their top speeds, you cant have a 1.6 doing 160+map and do a 1/4 mile in 12seconds! its all in the gearing!
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200bhp 1.6s
Andy
You
Dave
Lee303
off the top of my head.
LETs with big power
Rick Draper
Muppetsport
AdamF
Beardy
Lee Mitchell
Timrud_
that's just off the top of my head.
Go to MIG, there's 400bhp calibras, cavaliers, astras, that rwd cavalier, pete thingys LS1 astra, 4x4 mk1 astra, that bloke willay knows' let astra, then there's the random things like the twin turbo rwd astra mk2 being built on mig.
Loads of cars which are quick. they might not beat the ford lot, but they'll do pretty damn well at trying.
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On the 29th JR, they had the grey escort Cos out all day aswell as the reyland sierra but the escort cos the new one they made only went out in the morning i think, then stayed in the rest of the day..
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ah i see, the grey one is dangerous car, that was owned by sean bicknell, who now onws the exige in reyland colours
did you see the Red dolly sprint 
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200bhp 1.6s
Andy - is this finished?
You - not finished
Dave - not finished
Lee303 - not finished but along with andy prob the closest to finishing
off the top of my head.
LETs with big power
Rick Draper - not finished
Muppetsport - granted it runs and goes well
AdamF - not finsihed
Beardy - not finished
Lee Mitchell - not finished
Timrud_ - finished but dont he have running issues? or am i dreaming
that's just off the top of my head.
Go to MIG, there's 400bhp calibras, cavaliers, astras, that rwd cavalier, pete thingys LS1 astra, 4x4 mk1 astra, that bloke willay knows' let astra, then there's the random things like the twin turbo rwd astra mk2 being built on mig.
Loads of cars which are quick. they might not beat the ford lot, but they'll do pretty damn well at trying.
thing is the ford boys build cars and they work. look at christian, only time he trailered his car away was this year. jamie drove his home after he set his times...........
dont get me wrong im not saying the vauxhall boys are rubbish, we just have some catching up to do
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