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Offline Diamond Hell

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Re: surprised at how well the fabia vrs goes
« Reply #20 on: 19 August 2011, 13:04 »
Hope your not trying to say your r32 is faster than my golf, coz if you are that's the funniest thing iv heard this week...

Yawn.  Everything's now a 'how many BHP I have' competition, is it?

I will guarantee his R32 would be faster than your Golf in the damp and the wet.

And my Golf would be faster than both as it's much lighter and 4WD.

Go to a proper track and come back with some lap times, buffer-boy.
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Re: surprised at how well the fabia vrs goes
« Reply #21 on: 19 August 2011, 13:07 »
Also factor in the driver and how much bottle and ability they have!
Mind you tracks are easy to drive on! Huge wide corners and nothing coming the other way! :grin:
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Re: surprised at how well the fabia vrs goes
« Reply #22 on: 19 August 2011, 13:19 »
My mate Kris (Fabla on here) had a play with his mate in a 2.5 Z4; the Z4 lost the race to 100........

Mind you the 2.5 is fecking awful  :sick:

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Re: surprised at how well the fabia vrs goes
« Reply #23 on: 19 August 2011, 14:00 »


your the type of person i love to suprise :grin:

i know the type... i spend ages trying to clean that little black spec off my rear view mirror.. it only
seems to get bigger as i stop at the lights  :undecided:

Hope your not trying to say your r32 is faster than my golf, coz if you are that's the funniest thing iv heard this week...

He had a remapped mk6 would have probably been quicker than yours from rolling. Not sure though, and dont really care  :laugh:
R32's are not for racing anyway, there for enjoying  :cool:

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Re: surprised at how well the fabia vrs goes
« Reply #24 on: 19 August 2011, 14:12 »


your the type of person i love to suprise :grin:

i know the type... i spend ages trying to clean that little black spec off my rear view mirror.. it only
seems to get bigger as i stop at the lights  :undecided:

Hope your not trying to say your r32 is faster than my golf, coz if you are that's the funniest thing iv heard this week...

I dont have a R32.. i have a remapped GTI. Yes it quite funny  :grin:

... if i did have an R32 you wouldnt get close :wink:

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Re: surprised at how well the fabia vrs goes
« Reply #25 on: 19 August 2011, 14:25 »
People get too hung up on peak power figures. There is a lot more when in its on the road, an R32 is brutal from low down and doesn't lose anything to the redline.
There were cars quicker, but i was never caught off guard due to all rev power (and DSG) lol

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Re: surprised at how well the fabia vrs goes
« Reply #26 on: 19 August 2011, 14:30 »
What you mean is it has large amounts of low down torque.
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Re: surprised at how well the fabia vrs goes
« Reply #27 on: 19 August 2011, 14:33 »
People get too hung up on peak power figures. There is a lot more when in its on the road, an R32 is brutal from low down and doesn't lose anything to the redline.
There were cars quicker, but i was never caught off guard due to all rev power (and DSG) lol

exactly... most people are happy to look at the weight and power of the R32 and then decide its slow.

have a quick look at TG powerlap times to see how it handed the GTI and ED30 their a$$ on a plate*  :wink:


* and these are dry laptimes we are talking also. make the track wet and neither of the 2 cars mentioned would get within 5secs of the r32 on a relatively small track.

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Re: surprised at how well the fabia vrs goes
« Reply #28 on: 19 August 2011, 14:33 »
Hope your not trying to say your r32 is faster than my golf, coz if you are that's the funniest thing iv heard this week...

Yawn.  Everything's now a 'how many BHP I have' competition, is it?

I will guarantee his R32 would be faster than your Golf in the damp and the wet.

And my Golf would be faster than both as it's much lighter and 4WD.

Go to a proper track and come back with some lap times, buffer-boy.

So how much bhp/torque is your Mk2 ABF running?
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Re: surprised at how well the fabia vrs goes
« Reply #29 on: 19 August 2011, 14:35 »
People get too hung up on peak power figures. There is a lot more when in its on the road, an R32 is brutal from low down and doesn't lose anything to the redline.
There were cars quicker, but i was never caught off guard due to all rev power (and DSG) lol

exactly... most people are happy to look at the weight and power of the R32 and then decide its slow.

have a quick look at TG powerlap times to see how it handed the GTI and ED30 their a$$ on a plate*  :wink:


* and these are dry laptimes we are talking also. make the track wet and neither of the 2 cars mentioned would get within 5secs of the r32 on a relatively small track.

I don't understand this lack of power thing?
The R32 has 240bhp, that's a pretty reasonable output for a small hatch, not to mention the amount of low down torque it will have.
The power figures are true tested, unlike some figures quoted around this forum, which really belong in fairy land  :grin:
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