Valver vs RSI

[Lunner]

Still i'm open to challenges, on the road, track or strip, as long as tehre are no engine mods bar breathing mods

[Lunner]

In a straight line they are faster, i'll admit that, but round a track RSi is faster, you all know as well as i do that you have all the valver's power in the last 2k of the rev range, on the RSi you have full torque from 2.5k upwards, ie pulling faster out of corners, faster intial speed downt eh straights, can overtake

I've got to say Lunner, that's not really going to be the case, is it?

F1 cars, BTCC cars, hell, almost every race car, has stacks of power all stuffed at the top of its rev range. On a track you're always on it, always at the top end of your rev range. If you're in the lower part of your rev range coming out of the corner, you're in the wrong gear. Low down torque is always useful, but it isn't nearly as important as outright power

Its not all 16v cars, just valvers, the williams has low down torque, the valver just doesn't

[Zollo]

What I'm saying is though, a Valver's lack of low down power shouldn't count against it around a track at all, because - so long as the driver doesn't mess up - it'll never be below 5k anyway.

[Lunner]

You managed to keep your williams between 5 and 6.5k revs

[Justin..]

on the boil. LARVELY

[Zollo]

:P Nah! I don't need to keep it above 5k cos, as you say, the Willy is more grunty low down. Plus a Valver revs higher than a Willy, so there's more room to play with after 5k.

Ok, perhaps staying in a 2k power band is a bit much over a whole lap, but you get what I mean... ...

[Martin]

tbh I think lunner's is pretty quick round the track but thats more due to the driver than the car....stripped out deffo helps too.

I'm bored enough to put together a little comparison vid..

nana chasing lunner's stripped rsi then tom16v's 150 bhp fully loaded 16v...draw your own conclusions.

http://media.putfile.com/hybridvsrsivs16v

[Lunner]

Nice, didn't realise you had any film of me, not fooking bad considering i'm, what 50+ bhp down on you....running 110, and i think i had a passenger in then too

[Andyvalver]

Obvously never done a track day then

If you enter a longish corner at 4k, you'll be backing off before you get out of it or hitting the limiter

So if entered a longish corner at 3k you would have me for a hole 1k of my rev range and then the valver would pull it back from 4k to 7k and i will make the corner without letting off

[Lunner]

Yeah but you can't go full throttle in the corner, which is where the RSi has the advantage wiht the lower down torque.....i'll see you on track at FCS