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Twitch
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13th Jul 10 at 23:50   View User's Profile U2U Member Reply With Quote
In fairness to the guy i have done 164MPH in a C20LET astra with at F28 gear box and it did have a little more to go. it deffently is achiveable and with the mods too. just its not often you do it
Nick-S
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14th Jul 10 at 01:55   View User's Profile U2U Member Reply With Quote
quote:
Originally posted by Jambo
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Originally posted by nikkijamie
Had mine to 155 on an f20 at 8200 rpm on an spa dash that was calibrated


Have you changed the final drive ratio? If not im afraid to tell you you where actualy doing 139mph tops. Which is all an f20 is geared for no matter the power
thats wrong. if its reving to 8200rpm its going to have a higher top speed that something at 6500rpm
Robo C20Let
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Originally posted by Corsa_Sport21
So what if they break it on the 30mins of non stop abuse??


then i fix it because i saw it break simple
BarnshaW
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give the guy a break people are nit picking, he is saying he will let the new buyer drive it hard to show it has not issues and is strong.
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Originally posted by BarnshaW
give the guy a break people are nit picking, he is saying he will let the new buyer drive it hard to show it has not issues and is strong.


lol what else so they want me to do, do a full rebuild in front of there face lol
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Originally posted by Graham88
Whereas mine at 150 is scarily comfy still, could be doing 70 for all I know


Funnily enough, this brings me back to a post a while back about "why do you hate corsas".

Perfect example, at 135-140, my corsa flat out was like thunder, stearing wheel shaking, noisey, skittish etc.

But at 150 the Astra was like driving at 70mph.

Which is why the corsa was so much fun.
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14th Jul 10 at 08:06   View Garage View User's Profile U2U Member Reply With Quote
anyone forgot about the kid that let someone test drive his car hard and ended up both killing them?
Daimo B
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That wasn't the BMW M5 in america was it?

Edit, no it wasn't, he drove off a runway end at 170+ :lol

[Edited on 14-07-2010 by Daimo B]
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there was that one where the guy took him out in his 106 rallye on a test drive, killed them both.
nikkijamie
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14th Jul 10 at 10:19   View User's Profile U2U Member Reply With Quote
quote:
Originally posted by Jambo
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Originally posted by nikkijamie
Had mine to 155 on an f20 at 8200 rpm on an spa dash that was calibrated


Have you changed the final drive ratio? If not im afraid to tell you you where actualy doing 139mph tops. Which is all an f20 is geared for no matter the power



Spa dash, and road angel must be wrong then as well as my friends fiesta which showed him passing me doing 170, all on private roads though
Crana
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14th Jul 10 at 10:27   View User's Profile U2U Member Reply With Quote
130mph in a corsa feels weird never mind 170 :O
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14th Jul 10 at 10:58   View User's Profile U2U Member Reply With Quote
quote:
Originally posted by Jambo
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Originally posted by nikkijamie
Had mine to 155 on an f20 at 8200 rpm on an spa dash that was calibrated


Have you changed the final drive ratio? If not im afraid to tell you you where actualy doing 139mph tops. Which is all an f20 is geared for no matter the power


Complete rubbish.

RPM comes into it as well as rolling radius of the driven wheels.

Sorry to pick your post in particular but there is a lot of rubbish in this thread.

Top speed is determined by CoD (no, not a game for nerds), gearing and power. Nothing has been posted to tell you what any of those factors are.
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14th Jul 10 at 10:59   View Garage View User's Profile U2U Member Reply With Quote
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Originally posted by Crana
130mph in a corsa feels weird never mind 170 :O

100 on the clock felt wierd in mine
3CorsaMeal
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14th Jul 10 at 11:03   View User's Profile U2U Member Reply With Quote
155mph in mine
spikedjack
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14th Jul 10 at 12:00   View User's Profile U2U Member Reply With Quote
entirely possible dependant on:
a) power
b) rev limit
c) gearing/final drive
d) rolling radius of wheel
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14th Jul 10 at 12:10   View User's Profile U2U Member Reply With Quote
quote:
Originally posted by Jambo
quote:
Originally posted by nikkijamie
Had mine to 155 on an f20 at 8200 rpm on an spa dash that was calibrated


Have you changed the final drive ratio? If not im afraid to tell you you where actualy doing 139mph tops. Which is all an f20 is geared for no matter the power


look at the REV LIMIT

Gearbox are NOT geared for a certain speed, they reach greather speeds as rev's increase
Jambo
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14th Jul 10 at 12:29   View User's Profile U2U Member Reply With Quote
i have been misinformed
Col004
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170 @ 300hp is easily achiveable with an healthy engine and healthy turbo. Dont really see whats so funny about that.

I've managed 163 on a tom tom gps and mine wasn't 300hp.
SportBoy
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14th Jul 10 at 16:55   View User's Profile U2U Member Reply With Quote
bet those flys took some cleaning off after col.
Col004
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only tried it once.
3CorsaMeal
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i opresume the rear seats need to be folded down flat and the sunroof open?
Colin
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14th Jul 10 at 18:02   View User's Profile U2U Member Reply With Quote
You don't just jump into bed with Terry Tibbs!
Stu
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14th Jul 10 at 18:12   View User's Profile U2U Member Reply With Quote
Id say 175mph is def possible in a Corsa although I would have though you would need more than 300bhp?

There are two different F20's too! My old XE Corsa with an 8500 rpm rev limit topped out at 134mph on an F20 and that was timed at a Redline event.
Mieran
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14th Jul 10 at 18:33   View User's Profile U2U Member Reply With Quote
140 and 138 in a VTS... wtf

And I've took my XE Corsa to 140 a few times, didn't feel dangerous at all, maybe I'm a bit nuts?

[Edited on 14-07-2010 by Mieran]
Twitch
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14th Jul 10 at 21:49   View User's Profile U2U Member Reply With Quote
quote:
Originally posted by Stu
Id say 175mph is def possible in a Corsa although I would have though you would need more than 300bhp?

There are two different F20's too! My old XE Corsa with an 8500 rpm rev limit topped out at 134mph on an F20 and that was timed at a Redline event.


280BHP in a Astra MK3 with F28 took it to 165

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