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 what speed can you get from your 1.4 energy
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trancer
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Posted: Fri Mar 18, 2005 11:36 am

i can only seem to get about 100 mph tops, so i just want to know what speed everyone gets out of there 1.4 r19
david3533
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Posted: Fri Mar 18, 2005 11:38 am

thought the speed limit was 70mph Exclamation
trancer
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Posted: Fri Mar 18, 2005 11:48 am

not in my world Laughing
Xvisor
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Posted: Fri Mar 18, 2005 1:37 pm

That's about it mate! My old 1.4 19 did 105 on the speedo
trancer
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Posted: Fri Mar 18, 2005 1:41 pm

iv had 2 19s and the ph1 was faster, i could get around 110, but iv seen posts on here saying that the 1.4s are able to get over 120mph Exclamation
Xvisor
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Posted: Fri Mar 18, 2005 1:54 pm

Fair enough, mine did 120 when i drove downhill on the highway. Smile Still if standard i won't get there atleast not easily renault marked it at 162Km/h which is 101.25Mph

PRESTATIES
topspeed 162 km/h
acceleration 0-100 km/h 14,8 s
fuel consumption city unknown l/100km
fuel consumption highway unknown l/100km
fuel consumption combined 6,9 l/100km

Atleast that's what the charts say here Smile
16vrocks
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Posted: Fri Mar 18, 2005 2:12 pm

my old 1.4 gts-x had 115
Bridges
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Posted: Fri Mar 18, 2005 4:08 pm

My phase 1 carb 1.4 energy could hit 110mph possibly more on a motorway on a long straight on a longish one 105mph
Gentle Ben
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Posted: Fri Mar 18, 2005 4:16 pm

Well after Chris worked his magic on the carb of my Energy this was the result.....

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Neal
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Posted: Fri Mar 18, 2005 4:18 pm

thats usually about the point i start thinking how they would throw my license away if they caught me and lose my bottle Smile
16vrocks
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Posted: Fri Mar 18, 2005 4:20 pm

i have had my 16v to 125 but i bottled it at that ,, i reckon i could get 130 maybe 135
Wicked Neo
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Posted: Fri Mar 18, 2005 4:31 pm

my phase 1 16v - 135mph
my phase 2 16v - 130mph

my phase 1 is faster (and in standard trim) than the phase 2 (which has a stainless steel exhaust from cat back and a superchip.)
The phase 1 also got to 135 mph much quicker than my phase 2 took to get to 130mph.

however i think i may have the inlet cam one notch out when i did the cambelt on the ph2 a couple of months ago.
may have a play with that tomorrow and sort it out then take for a blast.
charge up the batterys on my digicam and do a vid and see how fast she can go (private test track of course Wink )
Xvisor
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Posted: Fri Mar 18, 2005 4:49 pm

My phase 2 16v did 138mph after a while but the gps showed only 132mph so my speedo a little out there but the dutch highways are perfectly smooth and well suted for speeding no bumps etc
Neal
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Posted: Fri Mar 18, 2005 5:13 pm

yeah, ive driven in the netherlands, good roads

Cyclists are absolute nutters though, so many of them and they all seem to have a death wish...

www.born-cynic.com/random/dutchcyclists.avi

Very Happy
Chet T16
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Posted: Fri Mar 18, 2005 6:18 pm

Those nutters are cyclepaths!

Rolling Eyes

Sorry

Embarassed
Doc
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Posted: Sat Mar 19, 2005 2:13 am

my p1 1.4 did about 110 - 115, had it rolling roaded and was pushing 98bhp at the wheels, so it was a good example. However it would stick at arround 100mph and take a long downhill bit of motorway to do over 105.

havent taken my p1 16v over 80 yet as I keep breaking it, had it about 2 months and only been on the road for a week or so. Evil or Very Mad
Benskett
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Posted: Sat Mar 19, 2005 7:59 am

Was doing 96mph till some astra decided to pull out further down the road.

I could have had 105mph with ease.
Chris H
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Posted: Sat Mar 19, 2005 1:28 pm

you lot have the most knackered heaps really you do. Georges old 19's and mine would easily top 120.

The red car with its raging 60 bhp goes to about 115.

Also 98bhp at the wheels? Dream on Rolling Eyes
Doc
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Posted: Sat Mar 19, 2005 2:19 pm

Quote:
Also 98bhp at the wheels? Dream on


Why not??

I don't make the rolling road, I just go off the print out.

Or does the print refer to the flywheel??
Chris H
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Posted: Sun Mar 20, 2005 4:40 am

1.4 energy 98bhp at the wheels. Lets assume a nice loss of what ohh 10% that still means you have what nigh on 110bhp flywheel output.

Na 1.4 energy lump to get that, its gonna need headwork along with either side draught carbs or throttle bodies. Its also gonna have to pull some serious rpm to get that output with stock cam and exhaust, maybe 10krpm or so, to get that rpm you need new rods, valve springs etc.

If you have headwpork, decent exhaust managed to get the cam re-ground with decent timing figures and assuming your still running the weber carb you might managed maybe 100bhp around 8 or so grand, if your lucky, this is also assuming at most 3% leakdown. With larger inlet valves you will get this power lower down.

Standard puts out 80 or so bhp when in top condition, normally they are putting out low to mid 70's. For a healthy one the @tw output will be high 60's.
Doc
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Posted: Sun Mar 20, 2005 6:13 am

well, I'll have to bow to your superior knolage on that, however I can't understand how the rolling road would have a readout that was that wrong?

However I've got the valver now, so it realy doesn't matter.

did your one that was doing 120 easy have any work done to the head??
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