SR20DE vs C20LET

Now me and my friend were having a discussion, (well he wer a bit drunk so on his side it wer more like a cat fight) and i was wondering which would be faster. almera gti-r or a corsa-b with a C20LET. (know incase you dont kno the C20LET is the 2litret lump out of a calibra) He wuz saying the corsa would strip the almera, but i took the view of not being sure, because i have seen a corsaB with C20let in action and it is fast.

Now i understand theis is abit of a conterversal question on an almera based site, but i would be appreciative of an impartial answer.

And he has agreed to ask the same question on corsasport.com so just remember you are reperesenting almera owners as a general. lol
 
Would be close, DET out of the Pulsar is 220hp, but the corsa is slightly lighter.

I know loads of people with LET'd Nova's and Corsa's. And one lad with a 306bhp Corsa. Very quick after it stops spinning.
 
my mate has a nova turbo.and its running about 250bhp ish. and it is really fast car. i mean feels like warp 9 or summit in a j reg nova lol. they r quick but so r gtir's
 
at a guess id say the corsa before the C20LET goes in would be 800 odd kilos whereas an almera gti is what 1100kilos? plus extras for the SR20DET. Thats a lot of extra weight
 
Are we talking about Almeras or GTiR's?

if the latter, they weigh as much as a crisp packet, and have 4wd!
 
a gti-r would kill one, not an almera gti thou, and as long as the corsa could get its power down most just spin 4ever establishing no-speed
 
think it would depend on the mods really, if your talking completely standard then isnt the C20LET 204bhp? (working from memory here so could be wrong), if the SR20DET is 220 bhp then it has a slight advantage in power, but i couldnt see 16 bhp making up for the extra ~300kgs.

modified my money would be on the almera, cant remember seeing any cav/calibra turbos making much more than 300bhp (again from memory, could be completely wrong) but for the SR20DET that isnt a particularly high figure, saying that though im sure the coscast heads on the XE (and presumably LET?) are very highly rated so maybe transmission problems are the reasons for cav/cally figures seeming lower.

corsa C20LET v micra SR20DET is a fairer match imo, then my money would definately be on the micra, more similar in size and weight than the almera and corsa and the small amount of extra power would be an advantage there i think.
 
Just looked at his post properley.......He calls it the C20LET but describes it as the 2 litre....so with out the turbo, it's the C20XE.

And in that case, there 156bhp and would be a good race between a modded Almera GTi. Even think i would give it a good race.

And Corsa's must weigh more than 1000kg.! Becaues my mate had a 1.4 Sport when I had my Si....And I beat it the 2 times we raced. Unless im the better driver ;)
 
Corsa's are bulit very well, there just small.

Think the 1.0 and 1.2 8v's, seem pretty flimsey. But the Sport's and GSi's seem sloid.
 
I went out in a 330bhp gtir and wasnt impressed at all, Its faster than my car obviously but wasnt anything like i'd expected..

Personally even if the corsa beat the almera, least you dont look a tit in an almera :/
 
well mates rx7/gts-t/200sx all felt a lot quicker and other than the 200sx theyre all under the bhp figure as well :/

thats what confused me... He was going for it as well before anyone says anything...
 
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