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Just saw your edit above mate

Im not sure how they have strengthened to be honest i met them after the build was done a while back its somet i have never thought to ask.

Alot of the car is carbon fibre light weight wheels and literally all that is in the car is two seats and a steering wheel.
 
Corsa's are bulit very well actually.

My mate has a Sport, only as a run about and thrashes the death out of it.

It's never misses a beat.
 
What year is your mates one Kurt? My mate had a modded corsa B and it was terrible, lighting circuits went, boot locked itself, but then again he did give it death, particularly after smashing it into a golf....
Tasha's sister has a diesel Corsa C and its never gone wrong, though. Only thing is, like saxos and clios, they are chav magnet cars.
 
syms said:
are you having a laff rofl? how do you think?! rofl
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no i'm not,

a it is imposible for a dump valve to improve power unless as dale correctly pointed out the original was leaking boost,
(and in that case a new dump valve would restore lost power not inprove on the original power out put)
all a dump valve does is leak off boost while the throttle is closed.
it can not improve performance or increase boost.
fact. :rasp:
 
syms said:
iv driven a few RS's and your right mate, standard they ain't the best, but a few little mod's like a bailey dump valve etc and they are mini-pocket rockets.
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Back to the original post 2 or 3 pages ago, i didnt say purely a dump valve.read the post's properly and then give your constructive critasism mate

and also to the best of my knowledge a focus RS doesn't have a blow off valve as standard and even if it does the OE unit wouldn't be as good as a bailey unit or something similar. So your comment above was plain and simply wrong. A Dump valve does increase performance. Heres a little reading for you from the bailey website....

Dump valves (also known as blow-off valves) are not a new idea and have been around since the early 1980 ’s.Their function is to release un-used boost pressure when lifting off the throttle of a turbocharged car.When accelerating the turbocharger produces boost (positive pressure)which is used to ‘Force feed ’ the engine with large amounts of compressed air.When you lift off the accelerator,the throttle butterfly is closed and the boost has no escape route,so it backs up through the intercooler and causes back- pressure that tries to stop the turbo from spinning,this is known as ‘compressor stall ’.By fitting a dump valve,every time you release the throttle the excess boost pressure will be released,which means a significant reduction in turbo ‘lag ’,contributing towards faster pick-up between gear changes.
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Corsas arent unrelaible (well, to a degree) but the point we were making is that they rattle and buzz like nothing else.
 
i never said a focus rs has a dump valve all though i'm sure it will have a recurculating one as std.
and to go back to your other post a few page's ago...

syms said:
are you having a laff rofl? how do you think?! rofl
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i don't think it does.
and you still haven't explained how it does.

and if it's the 'few other mods' that will improve the performance why list a part the does s.f.a.?

about dump valves said:
Dump valves (also known as blow-off valves) are not a new idea and have been around since the early 1980 ’s.Their function is to release un-used boost pressure when lifting off the throttle of a turbocharged car.When accelerating the turbocharger produces boost (positive pressure)which is used to ‘Force feed ’ the engine with large amounts of compressed air.When you lift off the accelerator,the throttle butterfly is closed and the boost has no escape route,so it backs up through the intercooler and causes back- pressure that tries to stop the turbo from spinning,this is known as ‘compressor stall ’.By fitting a dump valve,every time you release the throttle the excess boost pressure will be released,which means a significant reduction in turbo ‘lag ’,contributing towards faster pick-up between gear changes.
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no where in there does it say it improves the engine's out put, a 'reduction in lag' does not mean the engine has any more power,
 
just because it doesn't produce anymore bhp on paper doesn't mean the performance of the car doesn't increase. Fittin carbon panel's doesn't increase poweroutput but makes your car faster. Think before you post. Just like fitting a dump valve increases performance, you get less turbo lag and more available power on foot
 
back to the original post, i was about 4 or 5 car lengths behind a VTR a few weeks ago, 4 people in my car and 2 in the saxo, dont know the owner of the saxo but did hear him hit the limiter in 1st (LOUD exhaust) and he kept pushing in 2nd, he got a proper launch but as i was behind him at the lights i didnt, little Si suprised me but as we got passed 40ish the saxo started pulling away noticeably, pretty even until 40 but after that the almera probably wouldnt stand a chance i dont think, even with less people in the car i dont think it could do it. only went to 60 as that was the limit and im a good boy :lol:

also easily beat a 1.2 clio and a pathetically slow 106, 2 complete wankers driving them who went passed me just before we got to the lights, one in the outside lane and the other on the wrong side of the road approaching a bend, got to the lights and the clio was in the inside lane with the 106 behind it, clio was a fair bit behind by 60ish and the 106 was miles behind. stupid racing the pricks tbh but after i beat them i backed off and got in the inside lane and left them to it (did get a thumbs up from the driver and passengers of both cars though), from what i seen even after being beat they continued to drive like pricks, cant really comment though as i was at there level while i was racing them.
 
Fair enough, there is a time and a place but you gotta enjoy your car aint ya? I drive spiritedly when the roads are clear and its safe to do so (late night time), and also early mornings have a blast down country lanes when i want some real excitement.
i stayed on the bumper of one (vtr) and was slowly reeling him in. I had a passenger in my car and there was a passenger in his. It was also the newer model 95bhp as opposed to 90hp? Its worth pointing out my interior is partially stripped though. I think the 16v has the edge over the 8v VTR.
 
Dale said:
It was also the newer model 95bhp as opposed to 90hp?
I think the 16v has the edge over the 8v VTR.
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iirc the early one's had a black rocker cover and 95bhp, the later one's had a grey cover and 100bhp,
the 16v is badged as vts and came with 120ish bhp and 15inch wheel's (rather than 14's on the 8v) :)

(worked for citroen for 3 year's :rolleyes: )
 
im worried, why do people with 1.4 almeras give VTRs a decent run for their money, in my xpericence the VTR just pulls away and away. My sunny should have a better edge than a mera as i dont have a sunroof, no electric windows, no boot/fuel cap release, no power steering so that a decent weight difference. hmmm
 
sorry, i meant the mera 1.4 16v against the vtr 8v..
Youre right, a BOV will not increase power, it will just make it more available to use so it will increase perfomance slightly.
A good BOV will make a turbo'd car faster, surely no-one would pay upto £200-£300 for one just for nice a sound now would they? It just allows to get back on the boost quicker without wasting it. Standard units are usually diaphragm type, where as a good uprated BOv will use a piston type which is much stronger. Here's a nice one:
http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/MITSUBISHI-EV...ryZ72205QQrdZ1QQssPageNameZWD1VQQcmdZViewItem
 
Cov racer, i think i need to go out and have few more goes with VTR's. My car isnt nothing special, i might have just got lucky. Considering how many saxo's are about ive only had a go once, so its difficult to say..he was deffo going for it though.
Can you keep up with/ beat Corsa SRI's? a Saxo is only slighty quicker from my experience.

you still on 17's?
 
Dale said:
Fair enough, there is a time and a place but you gotta enjoy your car aint ya? I drive spiritedly when the roads are clear and its safe to do so (late night time), and also early mornings have a blast down country lanes when i want some real excitement.
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couldnt agree more there mate, in the day in a built up area theres no point chancing your license for a quick blast, at night or on an empty country road its different and you would hope the police would see it differently (no idea if they would do but i couldnt see them being quite as strict unless there having a bad day)

only thing i hate is traffic cops, 2 nights last week i was on some country roads and had a volvo traffic car come the opposite way, not over the speed limit by much if at all but you still get the impression there going to pull you over for a "quick chat", if they did i would look dodgy as hell, out at 1-2-3am for a drive because i was bored, going to look a bit wierd really, only had them going the opposite way so far so i just put my foot down and get away from there after they dissapear around the corner, havent got anything to hide but i cant see them believing what im saying, plus i can imagine once your at the side of the road they will find something to complain about
 
Hold the phone, I'm sure I read on here that a standard GTi can have trouble beating a VTR? My 1.6 got royally owned by one, so how come the Si's seem to be having a good go of it?
 
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