Am I Just a P_ssy?
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Hmmm... interesting comments.
To be honest I had expected that a Cerbera (particularly AJP8 4.2 and 4.5) would be much 'worse' than a Chimaera 400 in this kind of situation, despite the long wheelbase, due to the huge amount of torque on offer and their massive tyres. Sounds like I was wrong. Are we basically saying that all other things being equal it's easier/safer to driver a Cerbera in the wet than a Chimaera? In turn I would expect that a Griffith 500 would be really tricky in these kind of conditions but a weapon in the dry?
As for a Griff 500 - if I'd been driving one of those over the Snake Pass I don't think I'd have dropped below 4th for fear of spinning it, it was that bad. In fact davidy I might have taken your advice and pulled over for a while.
mondeoman: Scary! (Your post, not you!
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My conclusion appears to be that I have to be really careful in the wet (not just careful which I thought I had been) - guess it's all about learning the car. Before this my fastest car was a Golf MkII 1.8GTi!
Cheers.
roadsweeper.
To be honest I had expected that a Cerbera (particularly AJP8 4.2 and 4.5) would be much 'worse' than a Chimaera 400 in this kind of situation, despite the long wheelbase, due to the huge amount of torque on offer and their massive tyres. Sounds like I was wrong. Are we basically saying that all other things being equal it's easier/safer to driver a Cerbera in the wet than a Chimaera? In turn I would expect that a Griffith 500 would be really tricky in these kind of conditions but a weapon in the dry?
As for a Griff 500 - if I'd been driving one of those over the Snake Pass I don't think I'd have dropped below 4th for fear of spinning it, it was that bad. In fact davidy I might have taken your advice and pulled over for a while.
mondeoman: Scary! (Your post, not you!
) My conclusion appears to be that I have to be really careful in the wet (not just careful which I thought I had been) - guess it's all about learning the car. Before this my fastest car was a Golf MkII 1.8GTi!
Cheers.
roadsweeper.
roadsweeper
Unless I'm mistaken the AJP8's torque peak is similar to a 4.5 or 5 litre Rover Engine but it is developed further up the rev range, therefore at say 2000 rpm there is more torque on the Rover Engined Cars. Remember an AJP8 peak power is at least 1000 rpm higher than a Rover Engine. On these assumptions, I would expect a Cerbera to be more docile at low revs and only really get savage as the revs climbed, whereas the Rover engined cars have loads of low down woooomph but run out of puff higher up the rev range.
I've just re-read that but its not very clear, so excuse my ramblings, you'll get the gist.
davidy
Unless I'm mistaken the AJP8's torque peak is similar to a 4.5 or 5 litre Rover Engine but it is developed further up the rev range, therefore at say 2000 rpm there is more torque on the Rover Engined Cars. Remember an AJP8 peak power is at least 1000 rpm higher than a Rover Engine. On these assumptions, I would expect a Cerbera to be more docile at low revs and only really get savage as the revs climbed, whereas the Rover engined cars have loads of low down woooomph but run out of puff higher up the rev range.
I've just re-read that but its not very clear, so excuse my ramblings, you'll get the gist.
davidy
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I've cracked 100mph over there in a '85 1.3 Honda Civic Automatic but by the time I'd reached the section where I've done this in the past I didn't trust the car enough to do it, though I know in my mind that it would have been fine.
I would imagine your subconscious has probably got cash registers ringing warnings!
A civic probably costs a little less to straighten out if the worst comes to the worst!
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