Corsa 3.0 V6

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Just had a bit of an encounter with a sleeper which was quite funny, I was driving along at around 40ish and I notied this standard looking corsa shoot right up behind me, and then overtake me, the racket this thing was making was insane and it said on the back "3.0 V6" I thought "ere we go!" I know theres a few of these things kicking around so I thought i'd see how it compared to my car (Nissan Skyline R33 GTR V-spec) which is standard apart from filters and decat, (dyno'd 380bhp) came onto the dual carriage way and gave it the beans, managed to overtake him and increase the gap, I noticed that I got to a very high speed although he was lagging behind and the gap increasing he was keeping up just, so its safe to say the mod stated on the back was genuine, came to another roundabout and trounced him (4wd vs 2wd I guessed) and he didn't have a chance. I was quite impressed to say the least, but how much does it cost to do something like that to a corsa? can't have been cheap, he seemed to think his car was the fastest thing on the road and looked gutted as I passed him, I think his money would have been better spent on a Evo IV or something similar...
 
There was one on ebay a while back, standard looking (SRi spec) and it was on BIN for £800, re-listed a few times because it needs the gearbox mounts looking at etc.

Bet they're scary on corners.
 
Phil W said:
Bet they're scary on corners.
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A car that is scary when cornering at speed is a fairly effective measure at persuading you to (and I realise that this is a wacky plan) actually slow down for a corner. While I realise that this idea fundamentally opposes every instinct in a keen driver's body, I have found it a reasonably effective method of avoiding crashes even in something with comical handling.
 
JRS said:
A car that is scary when cornering at speed is a fairly effective measure at persuading you to (and I realise that this is a wacky plan) actually slow down for a corner. While I realise that this idea fundamentally opposes every instinct in a keen driver's body, I have found it a reasonably effective method of avoiding crashes even in something with comical handling.
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Slowing down for corners is for girls tbh ;)

Sliding round on two wheels is far more fun :D
 
Take a cheap Corsa for a few hundred, drop the 3.0 in and engine for a few hundred more, spend a bit on wheels/brakes/suspension and light the touchpaper.
 
andi said:
Slowing down for corners is for girls tbh ;)
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Yes, because Lord knows that slowing down for a corner in order to stay alive makes me a girl....


....or maybe it's because one of the cars I drive regularly has unicycle wheels at each corner, and the other one weighs as much as a small planet and is therefore likely to kill half the world if it crashes. I enjoy driving fast as much as the next guy, but I draw the line at attempting to corner at speed in something clearly unsuited for the task :)
 
and handling has nothing to do with it really. Maybe only in this instance because he is FWD, but in the dry, 2WD > than 4WD.

Must have been fun to drive, but I bet it did handle like a pig.....the engine probably weighed the same as the car.

He would have been better with a Z20LET lump I think....

Maybe he should SC the V6 lump....then watch you try and catch him in a straight line!!! LOL
 
Oracle said:
and handling has nothing to do with it really. Maybe only in this instance because he is FWD, but in the dry, 2WD > than 4WD.

Must have been fun to drive, but I bet it did handle like a pig.....the engine probably weighed the same as the car.

He would have been better with a Z20LET lump I think....

Maybe he should SC the V6 lump....then watch you try and catch him in a straight line!!! LOL
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thing is, my friend raced a supercharged corsa a while back in his R34 GTR running 450bhp, and we hammered it, he couldn't get the power down at all, despite it being lightweight its pointless when theres all that unbalanced power and you're spinning the wheels at 100mph
 
V-Spec said:
thing is, my friend raced a supercharged corsa a while back in his R34 GTR running 450bhp, and we hammered it, he couldn't get the power down at all, despite it being lightweight its pointless when theres all that unbalanced power and you're spinning the wheels at 100mph
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it all comes down to cost really. tuning at a budget.
 
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