My Car Feels Sooooo Fast Today !

[markrevill]

How come the car has days where it feels great and really fast then others where it feels crap and slugish (slow) ?

Cause today is one of those good days (very good).

It's done nothing but put a smile on my face all day.

:clown:

 

[badinvincible]

Because it's colder.

 

[Woodentop]

yeah cold air, engines like it

 

[Tyson-182]

^^^ I'd agree with the rest! Cold air is better!

Tyson.

 

[markrevill]

but it's just as cold as yesterday and the day before.

cause thats what i would have put it down to.

 

[GarethM]

as has been said cold air

 

[White16valver]

Yesterday going to the cinema it felt in pain but I had to thrash it to get there on time.

On the way home it wanted to play!

Bloody thing... lol

I just put it down to "character" LoL

 

[tameracingdriver]

Only problem is, when the air is optimally cool, the roads are usually covered in ice

 

[jwarren2k2]

could be the fact u have only a bit of petrol in the car so it's lighter?!!!

 

[rmccardal]

Higher pressure ?

 

[markrevill]

£20 petrol in the tank, from a shell garage.

and never changed the tyre pressure at all.

But i find that tomorrow morning i can drive it and it will feel shite.

maybe just me but it felt angry and wanted to be let loose lol

 

[Cam]

Higher pressure ?

Could be the density of the air.

 

[markrevill]

well i wish it would stay like this 24/7 !

just seems very torque'e. and doesn't.

then again my mates 1.3 fiesta ain't much of a challenge lol

he still thinks it's a 1.2 tho soo lol

got some nice back out round about action in to the night on the way home !! that also put a smile on my face

 

[Hector]

probably more down to you than the car, for example how long its been since you drove it or something? I do agree sometimes the car feels really slow and others quick though.

 

[markrevill]

drive it about 50 miles every day to work and back.

all it's got is a piper cross panel filter.

want a zorst soon ! but after xmas !

get a 182 just before summer !!

 

[Bagus]

Of course sometimes it feels fast and others not......

The following play very important role:

temperature,Barometric pressure,cold air,humidity,petrol quality etc.....

 

[Zorba_the_greek]

Ahhh.......... cold air + turbo =

 

[AliasOmega]

i got a K&N ram air appollo thingy and it dont suffer from the slow syndrome.

 

[Ali]

Mine felt like a rocket this mornin!!! 2nd gr esp.

 

[Gareth]

mine is sweet all the time after being at RenTech.

 

[J Rock]

mine is stock, no filters or anythin 10,000 miles on the clock and i get the same thing. not down to any kind of weather or anything. the damn thing has a mind of its own. sometimes it just wants to be booted and sometimes its just plain sluggish.

 

[Gareth]

^^ mine was like that, but once you clock more miles it seems to become more of a regular thing. ( i'm on 36500 now )

 

[Tommcc]

Mines the same! 172 cup 52 plate, 22,000 miles, yesterday morning I put my foot down in 2nd and I was wheel spinning and then torque stearing all over the show, most amusing!!! but sometimes none of that happens don't get me wrong it still goes but just not with the same ferocity. Its alive........!!!!!!

 

[Rob669]

I think Hector was closest - it's how you feel. In the summer mine sometimes feels lightening fast too.

Rob669

 

[Rufstuf]

My cup works best if I drive really slow at the start of my journey, and speed up gradually. After 4 miles it goes like stink. If I give it beans from the start, it doesnt perform as well for some reason.

 

[TrophyBoy616]

i think its more humidity and pressure rather than temperature. when its damp the engine always feels sluggish.

 

[TrophyBoy616]

i had a moment the other day when the car went ballistic, put it down to empty tank and getting past 3k miles, thinking about it was prob more to do with atmospheric conditions.

 

[RobertCL]

Mine seemed very torque-steery today for some reason!

 

[Steve2004]

I think Hector was closest - it's how you feel.

Rob669

Agreed.

Of course air temperature plays its part, but the biggest difference is how you, the driver feels imo

 

[Guilbert]

Of course sometimes it feels fast and others not......

The following play very important role:

temperature,Barometric pressure,cold air,humidity,petrol quality etc.....

I'd say this is more to do with it than anything.

I know its on a slightly different level of speed, but i was chatting to a mate in the RAF the other day about the fighter jets. He reckons that depending on those factors, depends what speed they break the sound barrier. Some days it can be just under 700mph, and others it can be over 700mph. It all depends on the air temperature, and pressure etc.

So although a clio doesnt have a massive turbine thrust engine strapped to the back, i would still say that these things all play a part in how the engine performs/behaves.

 

[Alan]

Mine felt like a rocket this mornin!!! 2nd gr esp.

Givin those A539's a hard time again were we?

 

[diamond geezer]

get a charge cooler, its winter every day! hehe

 

[JBarber]

I know its on a slightly different level of speed, but i was chatting to a mate in the RAF the other day about the fighter jets. He reckons that depending on those factors, depends what speed they break the sound barrier. Some days it can be just under 700mph, and others it can be over 700mph. It all depends on the air temperature, and pressure etc.

So although a clio doesnt have a massive turbine thrust engine strapped to the back, i would still say that these things all play a part in how the engine performs/behaves.

that's because the speed of sound is not a constant but depends on fluid properties. Technically, the speed of sound is the square root of the partial derivative of pressure with respect to density at constant entropy :rasp:

 

[ChrisE]

Cold air is denser thats why!