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Omega Help Area => Omega General Help => Topic started by: Darkus Lordus on 22 October 2009, 20:51:25
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Late last year after having the belts & related kit replaced I took the Elite over to an ABS rolling road day to TCS Performance in Essex. It was also covered by Total Vauxhall magazine & I'm in it. (Jan 2009 issue)
I ended up taking the Elite as the Carly GSi wasn't at all well, I had not long owned the car & simply wanted to know what it had in it.
The rolling road was set up in such a way as to give a more realistic result unlike the usual ones that say a 1.2 Z12XE has 200bhp. The results from the Lotus Carltons & the other cars that were there proved this.
The thing that puzzled me was that my 1995 'M' 3.0 Elite was slightly down on power but up on torque. 189bhp & 290lbft to be exact. The operator came up to me after I had practically chewed by finger down to the knuckles & congratulated me on the torque figure.
Would any one know why the car would produce such results when running as standard spec?
The car looking at the history was a Vx car belonging to Lex Vx in Manchester & got transferred down to Luton for 2-3 years before it got sold off. I'm applying to DVLA to try & confirm this.
Ideas anyone?
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I dont know wht it should be, but I've heard it said that a cars power falls off as it ages. Mind you, its only a 5% reduction in 14 years - that aint bad is it?????????????
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Mind you the exhaust was like a tea bag with no mid section silencers then. Now it's got nearly new downpipes & cats & new mid & back sections.
I suppose that made a difference?
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bet its an auto which is basically a torque multiplyer :y hence the high torque figure, rolling roads really struggle with autos!!
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Yup it is an auto. Some of the other cars graphs look more like someones signature or a routemap!