Damn right, the rear disk brakes on my Volvo are bigger and more powerful than the main front disks on a 'scort. The front disks are huge great things, it may weigh a lot, but stopping power is wonderful.
Those poor escort brakes must have been 'Glowing' red when he brought that thing to a stop...
Andy
Maybe it's the gearing. I've got 1500kg on the back of an 1800kg car,
132bhp petrol unit with auto. I make that 40bhp/tonne too. It flies along motorways, no trouble.Thanks all for your input guess i will stay with the cat and stay legal.It is a heavy car but that makes for good stability.The latter models were 16 valves and had just that bit more power +10 hp I think What I wanted really was an "add on" gizmo to find more power from this engine.As far as the gearing is concerned this is a van derivitive and the gearing is a bit weird.For example reversing into a pitch if not level can be bit of a struggle as if the reverse gaer is to high.Trouble is you never really know how good a car is going to be till you actually try it.
Capt T ( snipped-for-privacy@Nospamhomecall.co.uk) gurgled happily, sounding much like they were saying :
But not much (if any) extra torque - 16v lumps tend to have it all at the top end of the rev range - not where you need it.
Modern artics work on under 10BHP/tonne.
Conor ( snipped-for-privacy@gmail.com) gurgled happily, sounding much like they were saying :
But you don't whinge when you can only just hold 50mph on a motorway hill.
You also have slightly more than 40lb/ft per tonne.
However if you've got a gearbox the limit on how fast you an go up a hill is the power not the torque.
The message from "Duncan Wood" contains these words:
But that means changing gear, and some of us are too lazy for that.
Which comes back to my auto...
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