HOW MUCH BHP

[Jules86]

Look out the window and tell me you dont wish you had quattro - i love it when it rains, i can leave nearly everything on the road behind wheel spinning 

[a16pse]

The only thing is though mate the 4 wheel drive flatters you into thinking your a good driver when actually its the car doing it for you, so having 4 wheel drive does not make you a good driver, all it does is cover up your mistakes, bet i would get round a track faster than you in most conditions. I speak from experience as i have an 06 impreza sti which is for sale and trust me it makes no dam difference on a dry day. on most track days the front wheel drive cars are quicker even with less power.

[chungster]

The only thing is though mate the 4 wheel drive flatters you into thinking your a good driver when actually its the car doing it for you, so having 4 wheel drive does not make you a good driver, all it does is cover up your mistakes, bet i would get round a track faster than you in most conditions. I speak from experience as i have an 06 impreza sti which is for sale and trust me it makes no dam difference on a dry day. on most track days the front wheel drive cars are quicker even with less power.

that's cos the STI is one lardy fecker and even wiv 3 diffs it WILL still understeer.

Lighter more nimble things with less power can run rings round one if they're driven well.

[a16pse]

LOL mine dont understeer, got fully adjustable WRC ohlin suspension on and all the other goodies to go with it, not short of power either, just under 400 bhp, laps the ring in 8.23, nuff said mate.

[chungster]

ha and how much did all that cost...remote reservoirs on the ohlins too i bet.

is that 400bhp on the OEM Twin Scroll turbo? Who's it mapped by?

[Saint Steve]

Look out the window and tell me you dont wish you had quattro - i love it when it rains, i can leave nearly everything on the road behind wheel spinning 

Not really, i dont drive like a looney in the rain.

The R32 S3 is the fastest car in the world 

[a16pse]

Ill just say cheap , right place right time mate.I think i have a buyer for it now so it should be gone in the next few days.

[Sunglasses Ron]

The end of the day they are just numbers, power is nothing if you can't get it down properly.

That sounds like my sig...  

Without quattro power is nothing is going in my sig  

let me correct that for you

With quattro: power is almost nothing with all my transmission loss and AWD weight

 

Beat me to it.. 

[Jules86]

Look out the window and tell me you dont wish you had quattro - i love it when it rains, i can leave nearly everything on the road behind wheel spinning 

Not really, i dont drive like a looney in the rain.

The R32 S3 is the fastest car in the world 

You dont because you cant, simples.

The only thing is though mate the 4 wheel drive flatters you into thinking your a good driver when actually its the car doing it for you, so having 4 wheel drive does not make you a good driver, all it does is cover up your mistakes, bet i would get round a track faster than you in most conditions. I speak from experience as i have an 06 impreza sti which is for sale and trust me it makes no dam difference on a dry day. on most track days the front wheel drive cars are quicker even with less power.

lol what a pointless statement. The car does it for you regardless of fwd, awd or rwd. You still have to put your foot down in a way that works best with the car. A quattro car is not as easy to launch as you think!

[Janner_Sy]

what kind of bloke comes on and bets someone he can get around a track better than someone else because he has an impreza. 

he could be a professional racin driver for all you know.  for instance we have a guy who has been a member for years wh races in the le mans, maybe your faster than him as well.


iirc the S3 doesnt have quattro.  it is a haldex AWD system that is predominantly FWD unless the car detects slip.  cars like the A4 4wd have proper torsen diff quattro permanent 4wd systems.  i could be wrong

[Jules86]

what kind of bloke comes on and bets someone he can get around a track better than someone else because he has an impreza. 

he could be a professional racin driver for all you know.  for instance we have a guy who has been a member for years wh races in the le mans, maybe your faster than him as well.


iirc the S3 doesnt have quattro.  it is a haldex AWD system that is predominantly FWD unless the car detects slip.  cars like the A4 4wd have proper torsen diff quattro permanent 4wd systems.  i could be wrong

Quattro is just audi's haldex (DSG/S-tronic for example) The RS models have 'proper' awd with better splits although the facelift S3 has haldex 4 which can send 100% either front or rear.

Oh and im not a racing driver at all  Though i do agree with you. Imprezza's are awful noisy chav wagons!

[Hurdy]

LOL mine dont understeer, got fully adjustable WRC ohlin suspension on and all the other goodies to go with it, not short of power either, just under 400 bhp, laps the ring in 8.23, nuff said mate.

Must understeer to get such a slow time















Only kidding mate - here's one of my slower laps. 

[Janner_Sy]

pretty sure that iv read on a spec sheet somewhere that it cant sned no where near 100% of the power to the rear. 

[Jules86]

Im 100% sure it can

[vRS Carl]

A quattro car is not as easy to launch as you think!

Yup, it's amazing how many people with 4WD/Quattro/AWD are crap off the line because they think they can just sidestep the clutch and hold on. Not realising it will just bog down. They also dont realise that unless it is persisting down or snowing then FWD/RWD is better anyway. IIRC they did a test a few years back in EVO magazine and it turned out that in anything but Rain/Snow 4WD was slowest & RWD was the best

what kind of bloke comes on and bets someone he can get around a track better than someone else because he has an impreza.  

Maybe his dad is bigger than everyone elses, he has a 2 sh!ts to your 1 and goes on holiday to Elevenarife