What sort of gains can you expect from an exhaust like that?
Right, and I bet you'll say next that the K&N stickers do nothing.From a dustbin for a pipe tip? Next to none.
The exhaust performance will still be driven by whatever size it is for the vast majority of its length which will typically be 2 to 3 inches. Obv header design, length and presence of cats etc. are the other key factors.
Pre cat days it makes a difference, turbo cars don't forget.
cant quite tell what it is, Cavalier springs to mind though
It would still worry many modern performance cars and they have quite a high top speed (because in that era top speed was the trump card).
it was stupidly fast in its day but 0-60 in 5 seconds is nothing special nowadays and I suspect even round the bends it would lose out more. Incredible how far we have come with cars.
In my days we all wanted Peugeot 205 GTI, golf gti or renault 5 turbo etc and thought of them as high performance hatchbacks when in reality they were all just under 8s time to 60 and nothing special today,
The carlton certainly was blistering to them in comparison but as per the speed thread, 5s is longer a super fast car.
Still quite quick for a manual. I bet they still have quite good in gear pace. They will outrun the speed limited German stuff
When announced and tested they were incredible. In that era a Porsche Turbo was circa 315bhp, a Ferrari 348 around 300bhp and the F40 and 959 (the first of the hypercars it could be argued) were 400bhp and here was a Vauxhall with 377bhp.
It shows how crazy the world is today with 400bhp hot hatch backs! It also shows why spreadsheets should never be used to determine best!
AMG 45 or F40….both have 400bhp and the Merc has 4WD so it’s better in the corners init