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Willyhybrid
12-10-2005, 12:40
A mate of mine is after one of these and I wondered who would win overall? Willy or Ibiza? Bare in the mind the Willy I'm getting is cammed, chipped, filter, zorst..... :? :D

Lunner
12-10-2005, 12:42
Test drove the FR, whihc is the one down from the Cupra, very good once the turbo kicks in, handling isn't a patch on mk1 clios imo.

Thing i disliked was the fact that there is no feel to anything, you can't feel the road through the stearing, when i fisrt went to ut my foot on the clutch i almost put it through the floor lol, and you can't even feeel teh accelerator under your foot, not a drivers car imo

J o n
12-10-2005, 12:47
good cars to go fast in a straight line... look OKAY and that's pretty much it... bit characterless and dull if you ask me...

as regards performance I'd have thought the Willy on that spec would smash it

Lunner
12-10-2005, 12:49
IIRC BHP wise its pretty much even wiht std willy, maybe slightly under, really can't remember figures of them driving one put me right off

Willyhybrid
12-10-2005, 12:50
0-60 7.2 apparantly, 180bhp stock but weight quite a bit I would imagine!

J o n
12-10-2005, 13:50
will get owned by a cam'd Willy then, they will be running circa 180-190+bhp... some maybe more...

Swervin_Mervin
12-10-2005, 13:55
Could be easily modded to silly power figures but would still be shit round corners.

Lunner
12-10-2005, 13:55
Could be easily modded to silly power figures but would still be shit round corners.

Did someone say Revo, lol

Willyhybrid
12-10-2005, 13:55
What about if the Ibiza got lowered, shocks, springs etc?

Lunner
12-10-2005, 13:56
Dunno, haven't driven a modded one, only a stock one, whihc i abused wiht 28 miles on the clock :twisted:

Swervin_Mervin
12-10-2005, 13:57
It would still be shit round corners, just not as shit. End of the day they weigh a ruckload and physics dictates that a smaller, lighter, better damped car would still pan one.

Sticking good suspension on a car doesn't always mean it will handle.

Willyhybrid
12-10-2005, 14:01
That's it exactly Swervin my boy! Although the Willy I'm looking at has been decked 50mm, will that affect it's handling in a bad way?

Swervin_Mervin
12-10-2005, 14:03
I couldn't say mate as I've never driven a willy, modded or not.

Zollo
12-10-2005, 14:03
That's it exactly Swervin my boy! Although the Willy I'm looking at has been decked 50mm, will that affect it's handling in a bad way?

Oooo, don't get me started :wink:

If you do a lot of track days, the pay off is worth it, but otherwise, standard is better.

lewis_willy2
12-10-2005, 16:56
my m8 went from a cupra r turbo with chip,d/valve front mount to a 172 back to a cupra r turbo n he loves it getting it fully modded including internals, a chip from a place called impossible performance boosts it from 180bhp to 230-240bhp for £400, good investment in my opinion.

not all that of the lights till the turbo kicks in, and i drive a valver, had him every time and he did look a bit scketchy on the corners

Slithers
12-10-2005, 17:03
I can feel a mitchy post arriving soon.

Swervin_Mervin
12-10-2005, 17:04
I find it hard to believe a chip alone will give those gains. If it does I expect his engine will go pop very soon after.

Lunner
12-10-2005, 17:08
Yeah Revo do a chip for Seats etc, hippy chick got her leon chipped wiht them, they give massive gains

Willyhybrid
12-10-2005, 17:26
Still I do think a TB'd Clio vs one of these with the revo chip.........no problem destroying!! :twisted:

Martin
12-10-2005, 18:54
I think we all know you don't need throttle bodies to take a Cupra R... :P

kj16v
12-10-2005, 20:28
will get owned by a cam'd Willy then, they will be running circa 180-190+bhp... some maybe more...

Practically no car in the World would gain 30+ bhp from some uprated cams alone - unless they were forged in Mordor.
I'd bet my Willy on that - and I don't mean the car!

Doesn't really add anything to the topic, just thought I'd add my two pence anyway.