Handling at high speed

andrew · Post by **andrew** » Mon Mar 10, 2003 11:32 pm

I did notice that going up to 125-130 ... above spec of the 1.6 the temperature gauge was rising way to close to the red ... another reason to slow down :rolleyes:

Mr_AWOL · Post by **Mr_AWOL** » Mon Mar 10, 2003 11:36 pm

Didnt look at any dials other than the rev counter and the speedo.

The whole point of the exercise was to see how low i could get the mpg reading, then i decided to redline it in 5th

Wont be doing it again though - i was quite happy at 130 but wouldnt wanna crash at tha speed, nor would i wanna get 'spotted' by the old bill. I tend to be a good boy and stick to <95

Mr_AWOL · Post by **Mr_AWOL** » Mon Mar 10, 2003 11:41 pm

1.6 CC's are definitely a narrower track

No - they are both the same.

pug405d · Post by **pug405d** » Fri Mar 14, 2003 5:06 pm

I think you will find the new 2002/3 models are now different. 2.0i is definitely wider by some noticable amount when I looked at them all along side each other recently. The pre-2002 or early 2002 cars probably were the same. The Gti has also been widened recently when the revised suspension was introduced in 2002.

Mr_AWOL · Post by **Mr_AWOL** » Sat Mar 15, 2003 2:14 am

I think you will find the new 2002/3 models are now different. 2.0i is definitely wider by some noticable amount when I looked at them all along side each other recently. The pre-2002 or early 2002 cars probably were the same. The Gti has also been widened recently when the revised suspension was introduced in 2002.

Hmmmm..............

Well maybe you need to tell Peugeot about this, because they dont know about it yet.

Maybe you were looking at two different colour cc's and that's why they looked different sizes

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pug405d · Post by **pug405d** » Sun Mar 16, 2003 3:44 pm

Maybe I should, as they don't seem to know much about their cars in general anyway! They know nothing much about the newish multiplex wiring either. There have been a few road tests and articles in magazines about the revised suspension and wider track on the 2.0i cars. It all came about when they were designing the SW range.

BTW, all the cars (10 in total - 5 of each CC) were in Aluminium

Mr_AWOL · Post by **Mr_AWOL** » Sun Mar 16, 2003 3:57 pm

I was just pointing out that Peugeots website says they are the same

Erm · Post by **Erm** » Wed Apr 09, 2003 8:42 am

i got upto 125mph when i had the 16" alloys on my car......

now i got the 18"s on gettin over 100mph aint good

its a real fight with the steering when u accelerate over 100mph :rolleyes:

ah well least i wont get banned for breakin the ton on a motorway

steve-o · Post by **steve-o** » Wed Feb 04, 2004 2:55 am

Yea ive hurd of bad faults in the rear suspension...
My mate lost it at 90 aswell, in a 206, back end goin everywhere and wrote the thing off

i would lower my CC and go GTi spec on the rear like darth bourj was sayin that sounds like it would improve it a lot, but the thing is i dont know how this would affect the insurance and warrantly and so have never really thought about it seriously...?

Louisg · Post by **Louisg** » Sun May 02, 2004 10:41 pm

So by having smaller alloys on the cc you can gain higher speeds, i am right

Louis

teddy206 GTi · Post by **teddy206 GTi** » Mon May 03, 2004 11:38 am

If you want to go GTi spec on the rear just get the torsion bars from an SW model. They are thicker than the GTi but not as thick as a 180 i think.

I might do this when i put my Eibachs on the car.
Uprating the front suspension without increasing the rear spring rate will just make the car want to understeer.
To balance the increased spring rate at the front i might get the thicker torsion bars. Might even see if there are any straight SW back axles available as it has the added links that the GTi 180 benefits from.

djviper · Post by **djviper** » Fri Jun 11, 2004 9:55 pm

it gets skitty above 120 (ive had 134 on the clock) as there is very little wieght over the rear wheels an easy way to overcome this is the fitting of a spoiler as this will force the wheels down harder