Bill, do you think your 1/4 mile time suffers due to traction issues off the line?
Originally I was well impressed with 13.4s but then my mates RX-7 done 13.6 at Santa po twice and I don't consider his car to be particularly quick... well not stunningly so anyway!
Cheers
Ben
Robpuguk
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Originally posted by mkidd
Just doing abit of investigation work
Could you please post your mods and what 1/4 mile times you have run?
Cheers guys and gals
Mark
oi i know you
Do bears **** in the woods Ben? :laff:
What do you think?
:laff:
Compare 0-100 times with your mates RX7.... All will be revealed
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Anyway, back to thread - I wish i had taken mine on the 1/4 mile to see what it would do standard!
Anyway, back to thread - I wish i had taken mine on the 1/4 mile to see what it would do standard!
Originally posted by ibizacupra
Do bears **** in the woods Ben? :laff:
What do you think?
:laff:
Compare 0-100 times with your mates RX7.... All will be revealed
Yeah I know yours is much faster, as does he (He too drove the Jabba demo car). My point is, what sort of 1/4 mile time do you think yours has theoretically (ie. if traction wasn't an issue, eg. if it was rwd)? Must be like 12 seconds?
I'm not questioning your power... I'm just saying that its even more powerful than the 1/4 mile time suggests. Which is good!
Can't wait for mine!
Ben
Originally posted by BenS1
Yeah I know yours is much faster, as does he (He too drove the Jabba demo car). My point is, what sort of 1/4 mile time do you think yours has theoretically (ie. if traction wasn't an issue, eg. if it was rwd)? Must be like 12 seconds?
I'm not questioning your power... I'm just saying that its even more powerful than the 1/4 mile time suggests. Which is good!
Can't wait for mine!
Ben
You can't ignore the traction issue Ben.... wish you could!
I would guess low to mid 12's 1/4 is possible from the car if I had proper drag tyres on it like the americans use.
low 12s runs from APR'd MKIV Golfs are done over there on drag tyres, and that is with similar power but a heavy MKIV.
Pretty arbitrary tho.
I have not done any tests since the engine mods were done, so 13.4s was running 325bhp not what I run these days as I just don't know. Standing starts is never going to be its strong point.
think of the transmission!!! I know I am... (now
)Bill
I wasn't suggesting that 12 seconds was actually do-able, its just that if we think of it as being a 13.4 second car then if we look at other 13.4 second cars then you'd assume that their peformance is similar.... but in reality the Ibiza would still whip them as it really performs as a say 12 second car once it gets over the traction issues.
Where do you get drag tyres from?
Gearbox clearly is an issue... I hope Jabba update their website! See bottom of:
http://www.jabbasport.com/tech.html
Quote:
"5 speed synchromesh in standard form will take 270lb ft, with Quaife ATB diff will take 320lb ft. Can also be upgraded to 6 speed with Quaife gear set in either syncro or dog engagement in this form will take 400lb ft".
I guess you're going for the Quaife gear set?
Cheers
Ben
Where do you get drag tyres from?
Gearbox clearly is an issue... I hope Jabba update their website! See bottom of:
http://www.jabbasport.com/tech.html
Quote:
"5 speed synchromesh in standard form will take 270lb ft, with Quaife ATB diff will take 320lb ft. Can also be upgraded to 6 speed with Quaife gear set in either syncro or dog engagement in this form will take 400lb ft".
I guess you're going for the Quaife gear set?
Cheers
Ben
Not just looking at quaife to be honest... golf had that and it was not great. there are other options in europe which i am also investigating...Originally posted by BenS1
I wasn't suggesting that 12 seconds was actually do-able, its just that if we think of it as being a 13.4 second car then if we look at other 13.4 second cars then you'd assume that their peformance is similar.... but in reality the Ibiza would still whip them as it really performs as a say 12 second car once it gets over the traction issues.
Where do you get drag tyres from?
Gearbox clearly is an issue... I hope Jabba update their website! See bottom of:
http://www.jabbasport.com/tech.html
Quote:
"5 speed synchromesh in standard form will take 270lb ft, with Quaife ATB diff will take 320lb ft. Can also be upgraded to 6 speed with Quaife gear set in either syncro or dog engagement in this form will take 400lb ft".
I guess you're going for the Quaife gear set?
Cheers
Ben
going to be a big leap to whatever I end up with tho... and i need to convince myself I am going to do the right thing...
The VW boxes will ALL suffer from high rpm gearchange crunches as they have rubbish synchro's. Includes quaife as they, stupidly, designed their synchro 6spd box to reuse VW synchros! DOH!
Rev higher than 6K and expect the next gear to engage and you will more than likely 'snick the gear or worst case baulk and crunch. IHI cars will rev a lot, making this g'box weakness feel worse.
Not an easy decision to find a suitable box tho.... making me go even greyer
Bill
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0-60's are a bit of fun, but I for one am not going all out to snip 10ths of seconds out of one by spending silly money on super tyres. I'll leave that to the Santa Pod pro's.
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