I know loads of people will probably have loads of negative comments to say about various rolling roads etc but I have never used one before so have nothing to compare my results to.
Rolling road was as Westec in Newport South Wales using their 1500+bhp Dastek Rolling Road
South Wales Car Club organised a French only Rolling road day there - about 20 cars attended but only 2 clio's. Mine and another forum member Gadlys (gareth) met up at 9.30 and arrived about 10.00am to then be told we were going to be the last 2 cars! so we could have stayed in bed especially as it was bloody feezin!
Anyway various Saxo's, 106's etc went through - couple of nice 106 rallye's - one with throttle boddies, think he got about 145bhp which aint bad
Eventually it was our go - went for a quick spin to warm the car up then on in went - managed 184.86 bhp on my first run with peak torque of 146.2 ft/lb and one the second run managed a peak of 186.50bhp with 147.2ft/lb which I was really surprised about and have to say really bloody chuffed!
As said I know a lot of people slate rolling roads but either way Im pleased - alot of the cars managed quite a bit less than expected - I actually told everyone I would be pleased if it managed 175bhp so 186.5bhp is great - even if their rolling road is not 100% accuarte it must have more than 180bhp or around that at least so Im happy.
Ill scan the graphs and post a couple of pics after the rally on ITV4 finishes later
Plus fingers crossed there will be a feature in Performace Gti in the coming months
Rolling road was as Westec in Newport South Wales using their 1500+bhp Dastek Rolling Road
South Wales Car Club organised a French only Rolling road day there - about 20 cars attended but only 2 clio's. Mine and another forum member Gadlys (gareth) met up at 9.30 and arrived about 10.00am to then be told we were going to be the last 2 cars! so we could have stayed in bed especially as it was bloody feezin!
Anyway various Saxo's, 106's etc went through - couple of nice 106 rallye's - one with throttle boddies, think he got about 145bhp which aint bad
Eventually it was our go - went for a quick spin to warm the car up then on in went - managed 184.86 bhp on my first run with peak torque of 146.2 ft/lb and one the second run managed a peak of 186.50bhp with 147.2ft/lb which I was really surprised about and have to say really bloody chuffed!
As said I know a lot of people slate rolling roads but either way Im pleased - alot of the cars managed quite a bit less than expected - I actually told everyone I would be pleased if it managed 175bhp so 186.5bhp is great - even if their rolling road is not 100% accuarte it must have more than 180bhp or around that at least so Im happy.
Ill scan the graphs and post a couple of pics after the rally on ITV4 finishes later
Plus fingers crossed there will be a feature in Performace Gti in the coming months