I have seen it on scoobynet I think,

links?

Looking forward to the vids still though & thanks for those who've driven/recorded it

The brick-like shape of the Furby let it down again then

Just wondering if I should fire up my Rover 100 (battery died) and see how fast any of you guys would disappear into the sunset though :P :P I have a feeling I'd just be hitting 2nd gear when you're up into 3rd hitting the redline

Id like to go on the strip in mine guys, and if a 150 bhp turbo estate car mullers it, i'll never ever mention it again.

I know mine is a fair match for a CTR upto 100mph. By the time I had reached v-max, he was maybe 1/4 mile ahead, which is fairly close considering I have a diesel.

Name the day, i'll come down.

Also for comparison, maybe mr wrx would like to take a curiosity test, 30mph rolling start - and see what speed both cars attain before he satrts to pull away.

Also, after a standing start test, again out of curiosity, a 30 mph start with the octy, wrx, and mine?

No prizes for the winner, but it will provide real facts.

It was interesting on the way through the site with the other 2 side by side in the rear view mirror. The Fabia looks very stocky - Bull Terrier style.

Oh dear.Have to break the news to my wife that my car is better than her car.

I love 'em both though.

Funny thing is I enjoy 'feeling ' going fast more than actually going fast.

Sounds like a good time was had

and for the record 323mm brembo's can fade

after 4 120mph power stops they went a bit hard for 10minutes then back to normal again

10pot AP's will fade if you boil the fluid...as I've said many times along with others, the calipers on the Skoda's at 1pot are fine, it's the fluid you put in them. The whole # of pot's thing relates to stability of braking at high speed and the even pressure application of the pad, hence the right compound would win. I'd bet quite a lot on a std Octy with 4.1+ and ds2500 or 3000 out braking and going longer than a brembo'd with brembo pads out of the box...

However...4 x 120's then hard...thats not fade is it?

Fade for me is lots of stops (when I have dodgy or old fluid), does not have to be 100+, try 6 x60mgh's on a local roman road. It will generate more heat due to far less cooling time etc...anyhow pedal down and you get a squish it goes soft to the floor, hence use a long roman road, or airfield. Once recovered you will get reduced resistance and fluid should be replaced.

For me when the 2500's get up to temp they yield a harder pedal feel.

But I might be wrong, but my pedal firms up as pads come in...and squidy when the fluid is fubar'd.

Good to see the tests though...interesting that yours and bengies come close. Phill is yours a 4x4 or the l&k as I can't recall?

If l&k thats the up to 20% haldex loss and gearing of the 4x4 eating away at bengies 250 figures versus your 230... see it takes a lot of power to make a real world difference; I think I've said that a few times too...

Ask Neo about chesterfield runs, soon put some air between us on twisties, oddly he makes up on the straights while overtaking, just as I did to Jon when I had my 4x4 and he his RS...however out on circuit the RS's would muller my 4x4....stick the rs's on a b road and the 4x4 would muller them..unless they were driven well, as some were

Drivers, tyres, knowledge and ability even for a straight line run matter. If I'm not getting 4+mpg on long averages from my old summer track tyres to the toyo's T1-R's imagine the drag they are producing, returned in cornering grip...so if I ran 145's I'd be really quick in the strainght, but have to slow to 5mph for the corners...

So despite a great test, this actually confirms what we all know...the only true test is a circuit, one driver, one tyre make or a very close match and an aggrement on mods...stock v stock wuld be the absoulte. Because I know mine is far better than stock on just ARB than my 4x4 was on coilovers, I strongly suspect the Fabia is like the 4x4, coilovers alone would not help greatly.

But I know coilovers + arb + lsd = lots of advantage, as Des showed me on Brunters opening up good gaps, despite a very similar power ratio.

On standard brakes it was lots of braking that was the problem for rather than from high speed, e.g. straight NSL dual carriage way with lots of roundabouts on it.

No such problems though with Brembos, DS2500 pads and super DOT4.

As Colin says though what Bengie describes doesn't sound like fade.

20 mins hard around Anglesey I get no fade with fresh superdot4.1 ds2500 and bd discs...without the 4.1, same pads etc Jon got less than 4 laps till fade, so he used the gears a lot more..good chap he is

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Not dissing the brembo's, great things they are, might even be getting a caliper change myself if I ever get the car back over the peak to JBS Then I'll take everything back, if I got a larger pad on a similar co-effiencient, then braking should be better, more pad, more force, more friction, but I see zero reason other than asthetics for them on a pure road car, as I say I'll take it all back one day I suspect when I go to a carbon metallic compatible caliper

Colin, my car is not a 4x4.

What brake fluid are you using Bengie?

20 mins hard around Anglesey I get no fade with fresh superdot4.1 ds2500 and bd discs...without the 4.1' date=' same pads etc Jon got less than 4 laps till fade, so he used the gears a lot more..good chap he is

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Ill be interested to see how my new brakes perform. Just got some tarox g88 discs, complimented by tarox rallye pads. Just need to sort the fluid now.

the brembos are a fine idea if you start from 288 as the 4wd cars do... if you have the 312mm there is little point upgrading apart from cosmetics. super 4.1 and ferodo/pagids will gain you alot more for alot less £ for £...

spend the money saved on i/c or lightweight alloys... both will make you faster on track and road.

What brake fluid are you using Bengie?

Sainsburys Be good to yourself custard!

tbh i don't know what fluid i've got in there. normal dot 4 i think

the smell from barrie's brakes after a big stop was quite funny

Goochie....

you know the old Fabia is quicker than a 330d rumour....?

do we assume from that its quicker than a 17yr old 325 with an weezy 12valve lump? cos as one has just been insured... and the tax is in the post (officer) we could always find out....

330d will blast past a lot of cars, and based on how one took off once in A'don I'd say not a hope in h*ll a Fabia would stay with it, you'd probably need a modded Octy vRS to stay with it IMHO

Ill be interested to see how my new brakes perform. Just got some tarox g88 discs, complimented by tarox rallye pads. Just need to sort the fluid now.

I have got a mitavac auto brake bleeder if you want to borrow it for the job m8?

fluff'

ahem......

http://www.philgooch.com/video/fabia_race2.avi

and

http://www.philgooch.com/video/fabia_race1.avi

good launch by bengie... but he didnt get away after that..

yeah, a poorly turbo, maf and a boot full of mdf count for that

So what you're telling me is that although a Fabia vRS can beat anything on the road (even when the other driver is sort of trying!) on a runway they can't? I'm shocked!

:feedtrol:

Maybe the weekly shopping was in the Fabs boot

Troll? I've read about 1000 posts about the mighty Fabia vRS since joining here! So much so that I shy away from themwhen I see them on the roads

Unsurprisingly, it's not quick off the line and appears to have strong, but brief, bursts of acceleration just like a Golf TDI. Yes, feels quick when it punches you in the back, but it's not sustained.

Ps. GReat videos. I like the bits where he shouts out the speed. and then stamps on the brakes!

Glad you like the commentary I resisted the temptation to say thing like "loooooossseerrrrrr"