You dont no his car was standard tho, 240BHP in a front wheel drive must be hard to control?

The fabia isnt a light car for its size... aerodynamics would favour the mondy anyway, plus the mondy is built for motorways so not suprised you lost..

The fabia isnt a light car for its size... aerodynamics would favour the mondy anyway, plus the mondy is built for motorways so not suprised you lost..

Fair comment

I sorry i dont like Fords.

I had an 52reg ST220. other than the looks, i thought it was a bag of crap.

My octy vRS walks all over it.

Fuel, Insurance, build quality, and most definatly speed.

The fabia isnt a light car for its size... aerodynamics would favour the mondy anyway, plus the mondy is built for motorways so not suprised you lost..

And if the fabia is remapped there is still a 50bhp difference.

the most powerful 1.9cdti astra sporthatch only has 147bhp which i thought all fabia vRS's had as standard seeing as Skoda under rate them all :confused:

that coupled with the fact that the astra is actually heavier than the fabia means you *should* beat him easily, so the fabia is lighter and as we all know has 190bhp when remapped so quite why you can't beat him i don't know?

the astra is 150 I think

Fabia is 130 as standard, not all are underrated this is a myth.

I have a tuning box not a remap, so its about 160bhp not 190

pre-tuning box, I raced one off a roundabout and although it was close he had edged in front by about 65mph

this was from 50-80 acceleration and I kept up the whole time then slowed down as didnt want to lose my license

That's what I was wondering about mate tbh - was a little dissapointed....Even emailed Jase about it for his professorial opinion.

He said it's the 4WD that helps them and the 30+ rolling start that helps us dervs. Was from a dead stop, and me being right behind him, had to be careful I didn't run into his rear.... Once I let him get a bit in front, went for it 100%...

Did a fairly good job of minimising wheel spin while maximising acceleration. Changed at 4K rpm, perhaps a bit sooner may have helped..

Loved the smoke trail in the rear mirror tho', lol!

Yep you should pull away from an R32 from a rolling start and from a standing start once above 60 you should start to reel him in as the 4wd weight penalty starts to take effect and Stage 2 TDI's are very very strong between 60-100+

Looking at a DYNO Plot on one of Richard's latest ECU map on a stage 2 TD turbo on a Golf Anni TDI 150, peak power is 4300 with very little lose at all between 4000-4500 which makes for fantastic top end pull. So holding it to 4500-4700 will be better.

Smoke Trail, did you get richard to add the fuel up top then ? I am forever trying different maps off joe to lose as much smoke as poss without losing power, very nearly there now. Used to have a smoke trail 4100-4700 but it just used to grate me people thinking what a dirty old diesel.

As for the ST220 it's quick car top end and will always pull away from a mapped Fabia VRS above 120+ but below that you should just have the edge.

why is that when ever a fabia cannot beat a car it must have been modified?

why is that when ever a fabia cannot beat a car it must have been modified?

Same reason that if it does, the other guy must have 'not been trying' I guess?

Same reason that if it does, the other guy must have 'not been trying' I guess?

Spot on...

Hats off to Bengie though for keeping up his good work!

sorry for having some sort of realistic outlook on things, today driving back from a ford meet i was driving my brothers focus and i went past a porsche carrera turbo and as he pulled out of the slip road and he never got past me so obviously a 1.8 focus is faster

I did ask Rich to increase the fuelling a bit at top - I actually asked for it!- just cos I actually like the smoke effect - also should I ever really lose it (!) and go with NOS, LPG I have the extra fuel ready to use.....

Had it of been a 2l fabia, you would have kicked his ****!

Had it of been a 2l fabia, you would have kicked his ****!

:orb_lol:

The most important thing you have to realise that even if the fabia did beat it in terms of speed, it would still sound **** compared the the V6 :rofl:

Also note the fabia was blocking the mundano's path until he pulled over. So it wasn't even a "race" as the fabia was holding the mundano up.

Also note the fabia was blocking the mundano's path until he pulled over. So it wasn't even a "race" as the fabia was holding the mundano up.

Nah, the mondeo was just using the the fabia's slipstream to build up speed to overtake

yeah ok....

:cop1:Since being pulled by an ST220 I really wouldn't suggest taking these on again.

yeah ok....

Hey! Where's the Fabia love? :confused:

Hey! Where's the Fabia love? :confused:

is that like man love? but between Fabia owners.

is that like man love? but between Fabia owners.

I hope not. It may be a skoda but I'd never want to own a fabia.

is that like man love? but between Fabia owners.

No. Defininetly not!

is that like man love? but between Fabia owners.

Why do you thing the fabia VRS has two small exhaust pipes rather than a single big one. Makes it easier for the man love 3somes

i thought it did only have one.