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Come on Gustavo, a lot of that is bollocks with added marketing bullshit thrown in :lol:
In terms of production the engines ARE thrown together as cheaply as possible as they were forced to use as much pre-existing stuff as possible, and the other stuff that's supposedly unique is merely things made from the same blank material but with different numbers put into the CNC machine.
The engineers were given a target cubic capacity to meet and to do it as cheap as possible and using as many off the shelf items as possible. They weren't allowed to go with their preferred specification because it would have been too expensive, that spec only happened when Sodemo were building engines for the BTCC. Their F7R's were a completely different spec as they used a shorter throw crank and even bigger bore - NOT cheap and NOT put together with as many pre-existing parts as possible so the complete opposite to the Williams engine which makes cheap & cobbled together a pretty accurate way to describe it I'd say.
Original Cup Racer is a bit of a grey area tbh. They were all built & started life as normal 1.8 16v road cars apart from the engines being blueprinted to make sure everybody had the exact same thing to keep competition even & fair. No idea if they had the Cup ecu fitted or if that was supplied seperately.
For the UK series, the 1st bunch of cars came off the boat & were parked next to a pile of boxes which had everything in them needed to make them into race cars. Not sure if this applies to the rest of Europe but the Cup Racers predate the normal 16v road cars being available in the UK & are easier to identify, mostly down to the non sunroof shell
Well I think I've made my mind up. If I keep the Cosworth then I'm going to buy a valver as a second toy. If my Cosworth sells then I'll buy the best example of a Williams 1 that I can find. It'll just depend on whether I get any bites on the Cosworth.
There really is not much in it between the 16v & Williams, admittedly the Williams is a little bit better but in no way is it as big a difference as many people make out, which is why I was bitterly disappointed when I got to drive a Williams for the 1st time
This is such a shame. The thing is, most people on here would be trying it the other way around. As I said, if I was looking for a 205gti, I'd only want to look at 1.6s.
If I was in the market for an old Clio, I'd only be looking at 16vs, or an RSI. I only bought the Williams because it had excellent reviews of its seats and I had a really bad back at the time!
I can tell you only one thing (as a french man)... get yourself a 16V or a Williams rapidly, because prices will start to shout seriously soon... both models are great fun for so little money... One of my french friend described to me the Clio 16V/Williams as a Swiss knife, she can do it all, track, rally, snow, dry, rain, cold, hot, etc... no excuses for not using it!!!!
http://williamsclio.co.uk/forum/atta...tid=8272&stc=1 Took her for a spin yesterday on the dry, mean machine...
Yep very true paddy....when I bought my first 16v the seat was so bad for my injured back that I bought this...it is still used today and just as good.
Regards Ian
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