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 Posted: Mon Feb 07, 2011 6:05 pm |
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Joined: Mar 29, 2010
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Location: Halifax
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or if you want to cheat go rub some oil onto your mates front tyres 
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Posted: Tue Feb 08, 2011 6:56 am |
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Joined: Apr 15, 2010
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Location: Eastbourne
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or sugar in his tank 
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Posted: Tue Feb 08, 2011 7:28 am |
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Joined: Aug 01, 2010
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Location: Peterborough
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Correct me if im wrong... But isnt the Zetec a 16v?
Hmmm
How about praying...
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Posted: Tue Feb 08, 2011 7:37 am |
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Joined: Feb 07, 2010
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Location: Carlisle
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Hire a 180 for the day just say you got some body mods 
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Posted: Tue Feb 08, 2011 8:08 am |
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Joined: Feb 04, 2010
Posts: 1409
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Location: Clipping the Apex!
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A good service will help
Plugs, Filters (performance panel filter if you like) etc.
Fault Code Clear may help a bit too.
Drop the pressure in the front tyres to increase contact area with the tarmac, this will reduce a bit of wheelspin and will get you some traction. Over inflating the tyres will just leave you spinning the wheels.
Warm the tyres up on the concrete pad before the start line, handbrake up, clutch dump and get some heat into them.
Strip as much of the interior out as you can, remove spare wheel etc.
As little fuel as possible
Empty washer bottle (there's a Kg or 2 in there!)
Practice your launches, as little wheelspin as possible, but as much acceleration as possible
What condition are you gearbox, clutch, engine mounts in?
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Posted: Tue Feb 08, 2011 8:16 am |
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Joined: Nov 16, 2010
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Location: redditch
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borrow a gti or 180 which looks like yours for the day 
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Posted: Tue Feb 08, 2011 8:38 am |
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Joined: Feb 08, 2010
Posts: 1322
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Location: Rayleigh, essex
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I had a race with my mates zetec. There was nothing in it, quite literally neck and neck so u should do alryt spesh if u do wat people have suggested.
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Posted: Tue Feb 08, 2011 3:02 pm |
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Joined: Feb 08, 2010
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Location: In the garage
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What is the point? The cars will be so evenly matched it will take 30 miles for one to start pulling away from the other.
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| 2001 GTi 138, Bilstein Sprint dampers, H&R springs, 21mm Peugeot Sport torsion bars, 22mm rear ARB, Peugeot Sport Group A wishbones, 283mm discs, Goodridge stainless hoses, Maniflow 304 grade 4-2-1 2.5" manifold and system, 200 cell cat, Richard Longman head, 45mm Jenvey throttle bodies, 9.5mm TB spacers, 90mm air horns, Jenvey throttle linkage, Jenvey fuel rail, Aeromotive and Goodridge fuel fittings and braided hose, ITG sausage filter, Radtec custom radiator, Piper Ultimate Road cams, Piper vernier pulleys, Omex 600 ECU. Saxo electric PAS pump, Vibra Technics engine mounts. Samco coolant hoses, TTV steel flywheel, 4.76 final drive ratio, 307 CC 180 ratios. 2019 BMW 530i. 2017 Mercedes C300 convertible. | |
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Posted: Wed Feb 09, 2011 3:18 am |
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Joined: Dec 16, 2010
Posts: 1533
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Location: UK
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ive driven both engines and there’s not much in it tbh. the zetec is slightly more aggressive i think.
having said that you are definitely in with a chance of winning. what mileage do both the cars have, if ones on 100k+ and the others been in a garage its whole life that will make a difference!
as said before its important that you practice your starts because thats the main thing. also giving it a service like you suggest is a good idea, because your going to be thrashing it if nothing else :p.
also make sure you have just enough fuel lol. fuels heavy, you would be surprised what difference half a tank of weight can make.
also take out any bits you can lol, if your boots like mine, the spare wheel and a million random heavy tools etc.
as with the tyres, i dunno if they would be better over or under inflated. look into it
99 petrol wont make a difference, cant hurt tho lol depends if it will make you feel faster haha.
also learn when through the rev range is best to change gear, i.e not too soon or too late.
finally, dont forget to get somebody (not an idiot) to film it so you can post the video up on here when the race is over
Visualise the WIN, hahaha
EDIT: also there's a good chance he might mess his engine management up by f*****g around with induction kits etc, that might help you. persuade him to amateur mod the s**t out of his engine hahaha
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Posted: Wed Feb 09, 2011 3:58 am |
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Joined: Feb 07, 2010
Posts: 2360
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Location: Sheffield/Chesterfield/Dronfield
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As someone else said, take the seats out, and empty the boot. They did a similar test on Top Gear, modifying a Renault Avantime V6, but they f****d up, obviously they did new brakes, wheels, tyres, spoiler (which failed) splitter (again, failed) but they didn't touch the ECU, even though they took it on a Rolling Road, they just gave it service, if they had remapped it they would of gained some extra horses
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Posted: Wed Feb 09, 2011 6:19 am |
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Joined: Feb 08, 2010
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Location: In the garage
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This forum really is going down tha pan.
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| 2001 GTi 138, Bilstein Sprint dampers, H&R springs, 21mm Peugeot Sport torsion bars, 22mm rear ARB, Peugeot Sport Group A wishbones, 283mm discs, Goodridge stainless hoses, Maniflow 304 grade 4-2-1 2.5" manifold and system, 200 cell cat, Richard Longman head, 45mm Jenvey throttle bodies, 9.5mm TB spacers, 90mm air horns, Jenvey throttle linkage, Jenvey fuel rail, Aeromotive and Goodridge fuel fittings and braided hose, ITG sausage filter, Radtec custom radiator, Piper Ultimate Road cams, Piper vernier pulleys, Omex 600 ECU. Saxo electric PAS pump, Vibra Technics engine mounts. Samco coolant hoses, TTV steel flywheel, 4.76 final drive ratio, 307 CC 180 ratios. 2019 BMW 530i. 2017 Mercedes C300 convertible. | |
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Posted: Wed Feb 09, 2011 6:25 am |
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Joined: Feb 07, 2010
Posts: 2360
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Location: Sheffield/Chesterfield/Dronfield
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How so Ed?
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Posted: Wed Feb 09, 2011 6:30 am |
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Joined: Feb 08, 2010
Posts: 7045
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Location: In the garage
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Because people are giving advice to somebody in order for them to race a pokey little car against another pokey little car.
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| 2001 GTi 138, Bilstein Sprint dampers, H&R springs, 21mm Peugeot Sport torsion bars, 22mm rear ARB, Peugeot Sport Group A wishbones, 283mm discs, Goodridge stainless hoses, Maniflow 304 grade 4-2-1 2.5" manifold and system, 200 cell cat, Richard Longman head, 45mm Jenvey throttle bodies, 9.5mm TB spacers, 90mm air horns, Jenvey throttle linkage, Jenvey fuel rail, Aeromotive and Goodridge fuel fittings and braided hose, ITG sausage filter, Radtec custom radiator, Piper Ultimate Road cams, Piper vernier pulleys, Omex 600 ECU. Saxo electric PAS pump, Vibra Technics engine mounts. Samco coolant hoses, TTV steel flywheel, 4.76 final drive ratio, 307 CC 180 ratios. 2019 BMW 530i. 2017 Mercedes C300 convertible. | |
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Posted: Wed Feb 09, 2011 6:31 am |
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Joined: Nov 16, 2010
Posts: 264
Trade Rating: +3
Location: redditch
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so you have read 3 pages worth of posts on a subject your not intrested in? that doesn't make much sense
dont like it dont read it normally applys on every forum out there ?
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Posted: Wed Feb 09, 2011 6:49 am |
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Joined: Dec 16, 2010
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Trade Rating: +10
Location: UK
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small cars doesnt make it less fun imo
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