Shown up by a 330d saloon

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Taking it easy down the A38 today doing 70 ish, when i spotted something blasting up behind. So dropped down a couple of gears to lose him..................but it just didnt happen, he sat right on my arse. Slow down and pull upto the island, look over and its a 330d saloon. So think i'll do him off the line, wrong, he gets a car length on me in 1st and about 2 lengths by the top end of second gear So drop back and pretend i wasnt really trying

Lesson learnt, my car isnt that quick must keep saving for a saggy

Edited by I HATE GATSO on Tuesday 17th October 20:59

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The low down torque really showed altough my 3.2 is supposed to have good low down torque too

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CatherineJ said:

Wait until you come up against a new 335D. Unbelievable level of torque.

Hope i will have up graded before that day comes, if i havent i wont bother trying

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DasChin said:

hardly surprising when you drive an over weight and under powered audi TT!

so what to you drive then?

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steve bowen said:

mackie1 said:

PS. What have you done to it to get those wheel horsepower readings? It must be pushing out well over 400bhp at the flywheel.

Simple, dyno'd it the US the figures are always noticeably higher. There's an american on the uk MR2 forum and he admits cars with identical spec, running identical boost, seem to make 10% more power in the US, yet also run virtually identical 1/4 mile times when running on road tyres (most US 1/4 cars will run radials)

p.s. Just googled the TT 3.2 dsg specs and its not impressive reading, I can imaging the BMW being as quick.

If googles to be believed the TT 3.2 DSg gives 247bhp & weights 1520KG so only 163bhp per ton.

Edited by steve bowen on Wednesday 18th October 21:29

163 per tonne OMG

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What the bhp per tonne on the z4m?

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torque is much better than my previous tt 1.8 225, two totally different power deliveries. The 3.2's probably better to drive and sounds a lot better IMO.

PS love the csl BTW

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me wants a tvr

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Andy Mac said:

I HATE GATSO said:

Taking it easy down the A38 today doing 70 ish, when i spotted something blasting up behind. So dropped down a couple of gears to lose him..................but it just didnt happen, he sat right on my arse. Slow down and pull upto the island, look over and its a 330d saloon. So think i'll do him off the line, wrong, he gets a car length on me in 1st and about 2 lengths by the top end of second gear So drop back and pretend i wasnt really trying

Lesson learnt, my car isnt that quick must keep saving for a saggy

Edited by I HATE GATSO on Tuesday 17th October 20:59

So you were being a boy racer
Diesels... Gotta watch out for them

I allow myself to have a couple "boy racer" moments per month and believe me i wont be burnt again by under estimating diesels excuse the pun

Edited by I HATE GATSO on Thursday 19th October 18:55

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mungo said:

Sounds like it has had a remap

We run 330d's as area cars and in standard form they are quick but nothing special - certainly a 3.2 TT would pull away from them

Edited by mungo on Thursday 19th October 18:55

Bloody hope to god it was

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WTF Probably correct??? i was sat in the car driving it think i know how it pulled away from me

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trackdemon said:

I HATE GATSO said:

Taking it easy down the A38 today doing 70 ish, when i spotted something blasting up behind. So dropped down a couple of gears to lose him..................

Just curious... why?

Didnt realise i needed an excuse

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Didnt think so

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Sam_68 said:

Personally, I reckon BG has had his car chipped and isn't telling anyone, to make himself look like a driving God!

Time to come clean, BG?

thats what i think too

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Depends how you like a cars' power delivery to be? Lots of bottom end grunt but 5k redline or more even spread power with more top end scream and a 7k redline?