Now A-B driving i have been in some awsome cars and the quickest was an 05 WRC Subaru awsome. Made my eyes bleed.

Now in a straight line then a recent stoll up the local bypass in a freinds newly aquired Sapphire Cosworth have changed the leaderboard. Now in my youth i have many Cossies inc Escort etc and working for Garrett turbochangers and in the 90s we did all the Group A and touring car stuff and dyno testing. I did have decent spec car with a gen 400hp.

Now this thing he bought for 8.5k and the recepits pack he got with the car show a 12.5k engine rebuild (3months ago)>!!!!!!! The Spec is basically a Touring car engine with more modern ad ons with a net result of 560+bhp at 8k rpm.38psi peak boost and maintains 36psi !

Now going out in it reminded me of the old days of cossy ownership - squeeky dash and having to put it in 1st before going for reverse so it doesnt crunch etc....

Car idles and fine and drives really smooth and you would not notice whats to come. Get to the bypass and it just a 3 mile straight dual carrageway in the countryside puts it in second and hoof it and 3k it statrt to come in very impressive and the 5k goes again all the way to 8250rpm limiter with no tail off and the push you get was like being on a missile. It was so quick i started to giggle as it was beyond scary.! then into 3rd and then realise that it must be slightly wheelspinning (no tramp) as the shove was even harder and then 4 then 5th and do know what the top speed is but we were on the limiter in 5th (8250rpm) on 17" wheels (greater RR than std) showing 1/2 inch past the 170mph mark on the speedo and we were not even half the way down the bypass.! Given the power and 2wd the tractions was very impressive but on the way back we say where we launched from secon and you could see black lines for about 100m....

His friend has an R1 and it pulled away from that comfortably (talked to the R1 owner and confirm this) and the local spiv in his gallardo got torn a new one and was drop like a stone too. Now round a track you would just kill yourself and how the old touring car drivers used to drive these thing beggers belief, bring them back i say Rouse and Soper, Harvey etc..

Amazing......8.5k (credit crunch) car LOL