had a go in a mapped vectra VXR today

[jhtrophy]

That's some funny s..t lol

[keith]

but its a vauxhall, with half of halfords attached to it...............

 

[Janner_Sy]

 

stop driving crap cars and just buy an ed30 stop F ing about   

Im partial to a test pilot or two  if i buy k04 its not going to be a golf.   it'd be a cupra, or S3.  need to save a little more.

i need to try a stage 2 cupra with LSD i think.  driven the red temptress, but the roads were sopping, and the car was squirmingall over the place trying to get grip

[MAT ED30]

stop driving crap cars and just buy an ed30 stop F ing about   

Im partial to a test pilot or two  if i buy k04 its not going to be a golf.   it'd be a cupra, or S3.  need to save a little more.

i need to try a stage 2 cupra with LSD i think.  driven the red temptress, but the roads were sopping, and the car was squirmingall over the place trying to get grip

the red one is running a supersh1t map thats not the best and the diffs also needs changing on that car as i think its a little suspect as grips lots more than that car in the wet and in the dry and does have a diff 

[Janner_Sy]

the red one is running a supersh1t map thats not the best and the diffs also needs changing on that car as i think its a little suspect as grips lots more than that car in the wet and in the dry and does have a diff 

after getting out my vRS(at stage2+)  into the red temptress the first thing i said to tfsi_mike was is this k03 or k04 because it really wasn't that much different.  do you mean your car grips better?

[MAT ED30]

Yeah my car grips better as I had the car for around 3 weeks so know it very well and my diff just seems to handle it better some how

[Janner_Sy]

must admit that superchips map on the temptress was pants compared to othr k04 cars ive driven

[T88OMM]

Had a play with one of these the other day in the S3 which is bog standard at the mo and there was a knat's dick in it! Sounded well though! 

[Jules86]

They are about 100KG heavier than an S3 so with 300 horses it would sound about right being the same speed.

[M7AXB]

They are about 100KG heavier than an S3 so with 300 horses it would sound about right being the same speed.

how heavy is the s3 mate ?

I thought the vectra weighed the same as a p & o ferry, at least it handles like one 

[Janner_Sy]

They are about 100KG heavier than an S3 so with 300 horses it would sound about right being the same speed.

could well have been either the older 252Hp or 280hp version. they are 1580kg so power to weight of 159Hp/ton and 177Hp/ton respectively as standard.

S3 weighs 1495kg with 261Hp so power to weight of 174Hp/ton  so theres not much in it between them

[Janner_Sy]

they seem to map well though

this is thorney motorsports on a 280 VXR


huge midrange gains and 420Ibft isnt to be sniffed at either
strange though looking over all the VXR tuners graphs, they all peak at about 3.5-4.5k and then tail off, unlike the TFSI which peaks at about 6.5k

[Jules86]

They are about 100KG heavier than an S3 so with 300 horses it would sound about right being the same speed.

how heavy is the s3 mate ?

I thought the vectra weighed the same as a p & o ferry, at least it handles like one 

Well built and quattro = weight!

Done the low weight/low power car combo already = Big power/well built and comfy FTW!

[jhtrophy]

They are about 100KG heavier than an S3 so with 300 horses it would sound about right being the same speed.

could well have been either the older 252Hp or 280hp version. they are 1580kg so power to weight of 159Hp/ton and 177Hp/ton respectively as standard.

S3 weighs 1495kg with 261Hp so power to weight of 174Hp/ton  so theres not much in it between them

thought they were much more than that, my clio was 170 per tonne! cant see how a map could make it as fast as k04 stage 2+ it would need another 100bhp

[Janner_Sy]

i said it wasnt too far off being as fast.  and i believe without even looking back at the thread i placed the perofrmance as inbetween a stage 1 and 2 k04.

looking at that graph it echos what i felt.  stage 1 k04 makes 280-300Hp at say 6k+Rpm.  this is already making that at 3600rpm-6300rpm.   the GTI/cupra would have the weight advantage though