Well just back with the old girl from the rolling road, don't know if any of you guys have watched your pride and joy screeming at full tilt on the rollers but i for one did begin to question my sanity,not an exprience i'd like to do again
However,after a blown pressure pipe was fixed i can state (sadly) that i havn't made the 400bhp club ,399.9 bhp i cannot hide my disapointment in that being ,11.1 lower than stated,but to my astonishment the torqe curve topped out at 449.8lbs a massive 36% improvement from standard
Afterwards they did a timed/ measured run (on a private road) recording a top speed 158mph 0- 60 mph in 5.3secs 0- 100mph was looking like beingaround 11 secs but backed off due to a vibration that did'nt feel good , i suggested that ,we go for a coffee &let her cool down poor thing.
At that point i decded i'd had used enough nervous energy for one day
So now i have to find the viberation but to sum up when your foot is in the carpet this is some machine,entirely normal when driven smoothly,fue consumption takes a hammering at these testing speeds 13.2mpg, but considering 36.6mpg obtained last weekend on a 80-90mph 140 round trip, i'd say it is a fantastic conversion that any keen V8 man must consider l