Holy thread revival Batman!!
One decimated me the other day, but I am riding standard in a 1.8T..
This guy was awful he over took me coming out of a 30 into a national.speed limit and by the first bend I was back on him, he couldnt drive at all.
Was a beautiful sound going past me though.
I was sat here reading this post and thought you might be interested.
The reason for decimation was most likely this:-
This is a new standard Focus ST which has been remapped. Volvo 2.5 litre engines coupled with turbo = a bucket load of torque and enough bhp to wipe the floor with most S3 8Ls.
Even with the figures that i'm pushing out, i'd be thinking twice...a mapped ST is a worthy adversary despite it giant frame.
as soon as I've got my car back, I'm going to drive around town until I find a focus RS to race then I'm going to take great pleasure in destroying it!
I'd have thought Evo and Scooby humping would have been closer. Or even something more exotic and faster..........I think you're right, WIll make a special case for S3's though
One run in that sticks in my mind was many years ago when i had my nova. On the way back from a show in a convoy of novas in various states of tune, i remember seeing a fast moving red object approaching in the outside lane. As it draws closer i realise its a Ferrari 355, and then promptly burst into laughter as it passes us, flat out doing well over 120mph, with a blue nova glued to his rear bumper. Mr Ferrari was presumably rather ****** off that he couldnt shake off said small crappy hatchback and the bloke driving the nova was ******* himself!
I dont think it's getting hated mate? I've seen A LOT worse!
If I ever get seriously beasted by anything i like to speak to the owner and find out what they've done to the car. I know I dont drive the fastest car around and i'm interested to see what people have done to their cars.
Blue Nova didn't happen to be a 2.0 turbo Calibra lump with a central oval exhaust did it?
Nah, from memory it was a XE on carbs or throttles, cams etc. Was a while ago now (like 8 years or summat), but i think it was owned by a guy called ChrisT.
Also had a nice one with an E36 M3 convertable. Bloke pulled up behind me and was pointing at the boot sticker "Restricted to 248bhp, Please pass" and laughing with his mail order girlfriend. Pulling off the lights he decides to try and gun up the inside and undertake. I wasn't so keen and gunned it too. He must have had a stiff neck as when he drew up alongside me at the lights he seemed totally unable to look across at me. lol
I also got my backside handed to me by an Astra Van, looked totally normal, even had a set of ladders on the roof. Never underestimate the other guy
Only car I've really had a good go at was a white Astra VXR nurburgring edition. Weather it was standard or not I don't no, but it obliterated me!!
Dude, your post appears to be 100% honest. This isn't in the nature of these kind of threads but well done all the same.
240bhp ashtray VXR is going to wipe the floor with a standard S3 once rolling every time.....
Still a crap chassis that can't cope with it's power though, and it's a vauxhal, so I wouldn't be too fussed
Haha. You win some you loose some. I've had loads of 'races' but just with 19yr olds in VTRs and such. Which aren't really a race, more of a 'is this guy seriously going to try and race me?' joker!!
In relation to my car being standard, it isn't. When I got it, it had a map and panel filter. Not massively modded but still
Yeah I know what you mean about sleeper. Someone I work with has a metro with the 1.8vvc engine from a ZR in it. Rapid. Which is now being removed and put in his old mini.
yep had this to in the fezza rs a cupple of years ago, Porsche 911 Carrera 4S started to pull up along side me so I put my foot down for giggles, started to leave him when we were in the three figures, he backed of when he was about 4-5 car lengths behind lol was at the end of my clock so I thought I better slow up, I had my face glued to the window with the biggest grin ever and he had that stiff neck prob to when he came back past lolYears ago I was coming back from a mates garage after some tinkering with my RS (in my sig). As I came off teh roundabout past some traffic I was met with the familiar front of a Porsche 911 with his lights on. As I moved over he went to pass and feeling a bit cheeky I nailed the throttle. We ran parralell through 3rd, 4th and 5th where he made about a cars length on me. Still remember the huge grin plastered across his face as he wound the window down and exclaimed "What the f*** is in that thing?"
Car said Carrera 4S on the back and I was quite pleased that a shonky 20+year old Ford Escort could stand toe to toe with it.
Also had a nice one with an E36 M3 convertable. Bloke pulled up behind me and was pointing at the boot sticker "Restricted to 248bhp, Please pass" and laughing with his mail order girlfriend. Pulling off the lights he decides to try and gun up the inside and undertake. I wasn't so keen and gunned it too. He must have had a stiff neck as when he drew up alongside me at the lights he seemed totally unable to look across at me. lol
I also got my backside handed to me by an Astra Van, looked totally normal, even had a set of ladders on the roof. Never underestimate the other guy
A stage 2 S3 is going to be a good match for a Focus RS. After all none have ever made the 300bhp they were claimed to have. Majority make anywhere between 265-280. Anyone ever see the Autocar video of a Clio 200 racing an RS on the Millbrook Alpine circuit? Focus could only get away up hill and even then it wasnt romping it. Clio was all over the RS throughout the whole course. They arent these not to be f`d with beasts everyone thinks they are.