Valver vs Rover 214 Si vs Celica GT4 vs 106 GTi

[clowo16v]

Me and my mate in his Rover went for our usual cruise to Pontefract last night. We always have a steady cruise their, fill up with petrol, cruise round abit then have a rally back.

For a 1.4 16v with only a IK & exhaust his car is pretty damn quick, and runs low to mid 16s at York.

Anyway we'd seen this bazzed up 106 go speeding off in the direction of home so we gave it 3 or 4 mins then chased after it. Anyhow on the way we caught up with this Celica so he booted it. My mate was losing ground to it slightly but I was closing up on it really easy. We raced back for quite a while then caught up with the 106 in Ackworth, and he was booting it so I decided to go past them both. I got past them quite easily, which I was quite suprised at, and my mate did the GT4 aswell as he's a good drive so he held 15mph extra into a corner and went round him as the Celica was accelerating again.

It's the first time I've properly tested the handling on the car, and it's bloody excellent. The 106 and Celica had absolutely no chance round the corners, I was going round roundabouts at well over 50mph without a hint of over or understeer. Great lol.

See ya

Matt

[Andyvalver]

:D Nice one. In the dry a valver/willy has awesome grip. In the wet though,

[clowo16v]

They have too much power for the wet. I don't have to turn to get off roundabouts in the wet lol just boot it and it understeers itself off. Its a problem almost all fwd cars have though.

See ya

Matt

[VIPERONE]

wet and round abouts do not go in clios lol

[Andyvalver]

A guy in a new transit van beat me down a set of twisty near where i live because it was wet Everytime i put the power on i was heading straight for the hedges :D

[2 live]

lol.iv had a new transit van for the last couple days......they a lot better than the combi iv had speed wise, but the cornereing is a bit dodgy on em lol

[Andyvalver]

They are rear wheel drive and have wider track lol. He had the seats stripped out the back too lol

[Tommo]

You fellas wanna get yourselves a Gripper LSD and some Bridgestone Potenza S02 tyres, mine handles almost as good in the wet as it does in the dry with this combination!!

Col

[1fast6]

someone in a 1.4 16v rover beat a Celica GT4 hmm

[clowo16v]

He was loosing ground slightly but not a great deal. When he overtook him he had at least 15mph extra going into a nearly 90 degree corner, the GT4 was doing about 30 and he was doing nearly 50 so he cut inside and overtook it.

It should be faster soon though, he's tuning it to about 130bhp so he can keep up with me, should be a laugh until I 2 litre mine.

See ya

Matt