Rover Vs ??????

Post by **SubCat001** » Mon Mar 12, 2007 10:11 pm

Sitting here with very little to occupy my mind and my thought drifted off onto the idea of having a Rover Vs <blank> day. I know we have had similar events in the past but nothing for a long time. There was talk of a Ford day but nothing seemed to come of that.

So would anyone be up for a Rover vs. <blank> day?? The format would have to be decided but I suspect it would be 1/4 mile based, or perhaps even a consecutive dyno day?

Obviously we have to fill the blank so has anyone ideas?? Ideally we would want a marque that would allow any of our members to be competitive, not just those fortunate enough to have 300+bhp.

So if anyone has any ideas or suggestions post them here and perhaps we can get something together for late spring early summer.

John W · Post by **John W** » Mon Mar 12, 2007 10:24 pm

Yeah that'd be cool, I'd defo be up for something like that.

There was a Rover vs Ford events years ago and I remember talk of something similar on here but like you say nothing ever came of it.

Would really need to be something similar ie Ford RST's, Honda's, Vauxhall's etc

Null_Byte · Post by **Null_Byte** » Mon Mar 12, 2007 10:28 pm

I vote for a rover vs ford day, not that I'm competative or anything

but I can't wait to kick some dagenham donkey boy (might have something to do with the fact most of my mates drive fords and royaly rip the rover)

jase · Post by **jase** » Mon Mar 12, 2007 10:39 pm

The Rover Vs ford day was a good laugh, the Ford boys lived up to there reputation and as such were hugely entertaining!

A marque that springs to mind is the FCT, there one of the few cars that match us std Vs std. Problem with a lot of other stuff is they have to be madly modded to get close to our average 220brake.

Pitty its always geared towards qtrs, if it was from a rolling start or handling we could go and pick on a 4wd club.....

J

Post by **SubCat001** » Mon Mar 12, 2007 11:00 pm

jase wrote:Pitty its always geared towards qtrs, if it was from a rolling start or handling we could go and pick on a 4wd club.....

Doesn't have to be Jase. Could always hire somewhere like Haynes or Curborough, and if there is enough interest even look into airfield to accomadate both disciplines.

bjrespect · Post by **bjrespect** » Mon Mar 12, 2007 11:05 pm

any sort of ideas of date or is this just in the pipeline at the moment,

how do the rover turbo,s stand up to calibra turbos,

also how about a fiat coupe forum see how we fend against them

Squaddiemodo · Post by **Squaddiemodo** » Mon Mar 12, 2007 11:18 pm

Rover Vs Honda day, i know a few CTR owners who would be cheesed off when a vitty does em over a standing 1/4 lol

Post by **IrishRover** » Mon Mar 12, 2007 11:26 pm

Yeah, Rover Vs Honda was the first thing that came to my mind seeing as there's the obvious connection. Battle of torque versus high revs too, so there's the attracation of seeing the same thing being done via two almost opposite methods.

200coupe · Post by **200coupe** » Tue Mar 13, 2007 12:29 am

SubCat001 wrote: Doesn't have to be Jase. Could always hire somewhere like Haynes or Curborough, and if there is enough interest even look into airfield to accomadate both disciplines.

Curborogh would be good as its only 5 mins away for me! lol
Nice circuit though, went to an open day in my old 216 coupe and took it rond for a couple of laps

Mr_James · Post by **Mr_James** » Tue Mar 13, 2007 12:45 am

Dammit, I need a faster car so I can take part in this sort of stuff!

bjrespect · Post by **bjrespect** » Tue Mar 13, 2007 12:46 am

well mr james ENGINE CONVERSION time

Mr_James · Post by **Mr_James** » Tue Mar 13, 2007 1:01 am

Yea right.... my insurance is already going to be Â£1487/year

Post by **SubCat001** » Tue Mar 13, 2007 1:02 am

Mr_James wrote:Dammit, I need a faster car so I can take part in this sort of stuff!

The key aim for an event like this would be to allow anyone, within reason, to participate.

Mr_James · Post by **Mr_James** » Tue Mar 13, 2007 1:09 am

Mines probably not even hitting 100bhp anymore.... I don't even want to think what I could be put up against!

Post by **IrishRover** » Tue Mar 13, 2007 1:13 am

I would have thought a 1.4 Rover K series would beat a 1.4 Honda Civic.

Mr_James · Post by **Mr_James** » Tue Mar 13, 2007 1:16 am

Mines a 416.... 1.6 not 1.4!

shen · Post by **shen** » Tue Mar 13, 2007 10:26 am

VS Vauxhalls would be good imo

lots of nova boys and but theres still the calibra/cav turbo and the new astra coupes to keep up to the tubby coupes

astra gsi was a particularly fast car with shopping trolly handling so there'll be many cars out there that will give a good fight...not too good a fight of course hehe

turboestate · Post by **turboestate** » Tue Mar 13, 2007 10:42 am

Mr_James wrote:Dammit, I need a faster car so I can take part in this sort of stuff!

And a licence

Post by **Punx0r** » Tue Mar 13, 2007 2:26 pm

2CV owner's club? I want to win

jase · Post by **jase** » Tue Mar 13, 2007 6:10 pm

noooo, not vauxhalls. Someone might turn up in a completly standerd, 200,000 mile 1989 Astra GTE and thrash the pants off us all. Or worse still, who has beaten an astra van off the lights? I sure as hell havent.

2cv's sounds good, but no VW camper vans ffs.

Problem with all this is who organises it? Its a big undertaking.

J

ryan_220 · Post by **ryan_220** » Tue Mar 13, 2007 6:48 pm

jase wrote:Problem with all this is who organises it? Its a big undertaking.

Subcat001 (Jimmy) he said he has free time on his hands

Too be fair Jimmy is kind of good at that stuff

Ross9 · Post by **Ross9** » Tue Mar 13, 2007 7:04 pm

I might be persuaded to take a trip down south if something were to be organised, not sure who would be a good club to pick on, sorry compete against lol, FCT's are an obvious choice for the turbo people, but we want everyone to be able to compete, so more so Honda's would be the better option logically, depends on the set up of the day as was said.

Ross

John W · Post by **John W** » Tue Mar 13, 2007 10:16 pm

If numbers were short could always do 3 clubs like Rover v Ford v Honda?

Could take on some 4wd guys but to be fair it'd need to be something like 30-130mph or similar. The Evo guys always enjoy these days.

Ross9 · Post by **Ross9** » Tue Mar 13, 2007 11:00 pm

Yeah I'd definately enjoy a 30-130 style day against some of the bigger power 4wd guys etc, after having a quick 4wd I was amazed at how the initial 0-40 burst stood out so much from the rest of the performance range.

Ross

Bjorn · Post by **Bjorn** » Wed Mar 14, 2007 12:00 am

For FWD only I would be interested in seeing Rovers vs VAG or one of Audi, Seat, Skoda or VW.

Mike · Post by **Mike** » Wed Mar 14, 2007 12:52 am

If this ever did happen (rover vs ford was superb) i would love to take part, thats if the little Metro could compete

114gta · Post by **114gta** » Thu Mar 15, 2007 7:27 pm

vs fiat?

Sheaf · Post by **Sheaf** » Thu Mar 15, 2007 7:36 pm

I'd quite like to see rover vs honda...

Mainly because if ATR owners are anything to go by then a lot of Honda owners think their car is the best thing since sliced bread.. and I'd quite like to see some rover turbos kick some a$$.

Steve220 · Post by **Steve220** » Thu Mar 15, 2007 11:34 pm

Rover Vs Mazda?? RX7's, MX5 turbo's, RX8's. Would be interesting, but i suppose they're RWD

symonh2000 · Post by **symonh2000** » Sat Mar 17, 2007 3:07 pm

114gta wrote:vs fiat?

I think that would be good, as well as a Rover V's Alfa Romeo.

Beaker · Post by **Beaker** » Sat Mar 17, 2007 3:13 pm

5teve L · Post by **5teve L** » Tue Mar 20, 2007 12:02 am

If we're talking in a straight line on the 1/4 mile i'm sure i could find some fast Renaults to give you lot a run for your money

Null_Byte · Post by **Null_Byte** » Tue Mar 20, 2007 12:50 am

gttboy wrote:If we're talking in a straight line on the 1/4 mile i'm sure i could find some fast Renaults to give you lot a run for your money

Thats only because the clutch cables snapped and they can't slow down.

tomcat · Post by **tomcat** » Tue Mar 20, 2007 8:30 am

why not just an all fwd event?

5teve L · Post by **5teve L** » Tue Mar 20, 2007 10:32 am

tomcat wrote:why not just an all fwd event?