Honda Integra Type R To Vx220 Turbo
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, Jan 27 2005 08:33 AM
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Posted 31 January 2005 - 12:53 PM
U guys have taken this abit far, ooohh,
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Posted 31 January 2005 - 04:41 PM
Ian you've had the Type R for ever and ever, time for a change mr. You had the money for the jackson supercharger,exhaust,etc and what did you do with it, spend it on as bloody computer, yawn yawn 
. The itr is an amazing car and i've always loved them, a few of us have been waiting for you to turn it into a track car like you planned, but your clearly not going to 
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Another one of our mates has a S2000 and its a very nice car, but not as raw or fast as ian would like.
Sell the ITR and buy a VXT, we both always wanted one from the first time we saw one. I've got mine, now its your turn.
Fun and super cheap to run. The cheap running part will fit into your weekly budget 
Your only downside is it still wont go round the ring road roundabout at 80mph 
. The itr is an amazing car and i've always loved them, a few of us have been waiting for you to turn it into a track car like you planned, but your clearly not going to .
Another one of our mates has a S2000 and its a very nice car, but not as raw or fast as ian would like.
Sell the ITR and buy a VXT, we both always wanted one from the first time we saw one. I've got mine, now its your turn.
Fun and super cheap to run. The cheap running part will fit into your weekly budget
Your only downside is it still wont go round the ring road roundabout at 80mph
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Posted 31 January 2005 - 05:49 PM
I can't be the only person who thought "that explains everything", surely?Mark i work for an multi national I.T company, who the largest government contract in the u.k, even we r like that!
even wen our 3rd party contractors send us an update they wright extremely shorthand!
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Posted 31 January 2005 - 06:17 PM
Avoid employing unlucky people - throw away half of the CV's without even reading them!
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Posted 31 January 2005 - 06:23 PM
Does it really matter,we can all understant what was said.
Answer the topic question, as i want him to buy one
Edited by s1oww, 31 January 2005 - 06:24 PM.
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Posted 07 February 2005 - 12:03 AM
Hi !
Yep, I moved from an ITR to a VX na. Heres my final comparison post in case it interests anyone
I had a long final test drive booked in a VX 220 this morning to decide for sure that the VX is a genuine 4 year ownership proposition. It was interesting because I drove the Teg to the dealer and back along virtually the same route used on the test drive so it provided an interesting back to back comparison.
The route was pretty much the A449 Kiddy/ Bridgnorth to Wolverhampton road and several of the scratching routes nearby. weather - perfect & sunny with care taken to avoid frost in the shade.
The trip out in the Integra was fun: even the familiarity bred over two years of ownership has not dimmed the pleasure of hustling the Integra around good roads. The steering sharpens up under power and the Teg carves its way around bends utterly adjustable on the throttle. In the powerband the car axle tramps and wheelspins over wet patches in first and second, but this doesn't really spoil the fun. Overtaking is the wearing exercise it always was: holding the car two gears lower than is instinctive to ensure instant power when needed - and the burst of power is gone with the limiter almost as soon as it arrives.
Drop out of the powerband and it takes a 2 gears downshift to get back in. Today, great fun, but when just getting from A to B, a pain in the arse.
The Teg is planted at all times: the rear remaining glued at all (sensible) speeds. Lateral grip is seemingly endless. The ride is pattery and annoying in traffic at slow speeds, but gets more compliant and sensible at speed. Does it get any better than this ?
Soon, the fun's over as I arrive at CD Bramalls.
We scrape layers of frost off the Europa Blue VX220 on the rooftop carpark: gleaming and dripping in the winter sunshine this really is a breathtakingly lovely car. This demonstrator is in Europa blue (my fave) and has a silver hardtop fitted.
Simon, the sales rep, is the Lad who lunched a VX Turbo at last weeks' Barcelona launch so I know I'm going to enjoy this test !
Climbing in, while never easy, is easier than I remembered (but I've lost 30lbs since then - might have helped!). With even the diminutive Simon in the passenger seat space is at a premium and elbows knock while we get used to each other in the car. The ride is firm but much more supple than the integra around town, the driving position, left elbow notwithstanding, is perfect. Loads of leg room & headroom. I notice for the first time I can't see the top of he clocks...ls this an issue I wonder ? Gearbox is nice but not in the Integra's league. Accurate but not so satisfying in use as the Tegs.
In minutes we're out of Wolvo on the fast dual carriageway & I open up the VX. What a fast FAST car this is ! It feels like it accelerates MUCH faster than the Integra everywhere but the missing 2k revs at the top end. Real poke is available from 2500 revs. I recall the engine being dull sounding last time, but here it screams and snarls: lovely !
I approach a largeish roundabout with nothing on it so I drop a gear and gun around. WHAT a feeling ! The car comes alive under power, and the steering chatters constantly about the state of grip and poise at the front, while the power grasps the rear and steers it like a tiller ! GOD this is great !
Hammer up the dual carriage way and there are lights on red. Boo. I look at the interior - it really is fantastic. NOT so pretty as the Elise's but no worse. Rear visibility is much better than the Integra despite the seats obscuring the rear window - in the Teg the spoiler cuts across exactly wherecars appear in the mirror....grrr...
We're off again, and I gun it from the lights - it lifts my internal organs until I change gear and back off. It feels THAT fast. It feels much more than only 1.5 seconds quicker than the Teg to 100. It also feels solid, carved from a single billet of Aluminium. Not in any way flimsy or plasticky. Pehaps its exactly opposite to Japanese car design.
OK time to turn right by the old Stewponey and hammer along the A 448 - a benchmark road for handling locally. Its a revelation, the Integra is humbled by the grip, the poise and sheer capability of the VX, its eagerness is overwhelming. I whoop ! The salesman laughs ! sh*t ! a horse ! I stamp on the brakes, they are wonderful and I slow down without drama to pass the trotting animal, how odd it is that they can sh*t while walking along .. Must try it... anyway.
The view under the hardtop brow is not good for a tallish lad (I have a long body for being only 6' tall) but its not really important. Every bend, straight & undulation is a visceral pleasure now, absolutely no body roll, nothing you don't tell it to do.
In no time we're back at Bramall's, I knock the front numberplate off while going up the carpark ramp (D'OH!) park up and climb out (getting easier !). I look back at the dripping car, ticking with effort and shining in the sun. How can I not have one ?
Hands shaken, back in the Teg for the journey home - taking the same roundabout as in the VX I can't believe the body roll ! Nor can I believe how tame the acceleration feels, and how the steering tugs under power. Its all vague and disconnected after the VX. After a couple of miles I'm hurtling round familar bends, having a whale of a time once more. Familiarity means I'm far more confident in the Teg tan the VX, but the differences are glaring. The Teg is a fantastically capable roadcar but can't hold a candle to the VX.
My order's going in today [wink]
VXT is softer, and more teg-like in ride and atitude than the NA so the jump from ITR to VXT may not be quite so extreme.
ITA, NA, VXT are all marvellous cars, enjoy 'em all.
Yep, I moved from an ITR to a VX na. Heres my final comparison post in case it interests anyone
I had a long final test drive booked in a VX 220 this morning to decide for sure that the VX is a genuine 4 year ownership proposition. It was interesting because I drove the Teg to the dealer and back along virtually the same route used on the test drive so it provided an interesting back to back comparison.
The route was pretty much the A449 Kiddy/ Bridgnorth to Wolverhampton road and several of the scratching routes nearby. weather - perfect & sunny with care taken to avoid frost in the shade.
The trip out in the Integra was fun: even the familiarity bred over two years of ownership has not dimmed the pleasure of hustling the Integra around good roads. The steering sharpens up under power and the Teg carves its way around bends utterly adjustable on the throttle. In the powerband the car axle tramps and wheelspins over wet patches in first and second, but this doesn't really spoil the fun. Overtaking is the wearing exercise it always was: holding the car two gears lower than is instinctive to ensure instant power when needed - and the burst of power is gone with the limiter almost as soon as it arrives.
Drop out of the powerband and it takes a 2 gears downshift to get back in. Today, great fun, but when just getting from A to B, a pain in the arse.
The Teg is planted at all times: the rear remaining glued at all (sensible) speeds. Lateral grip is seemingly endless. The ride is pattery and annoying in traffic at slow speeds, but gets more compliant and sensible at speed. Does it get any better than this ?
Soon, the fun's over as I arrive at CD Bramalls.
We scrape layers of frost off the Europa Blue VX220 on the rooftop carpark: gleaming and dripping in the winter sunshine this really is a breathtakingly lovely car. This demonstrator is in Europa blue (my fave) and has a silver hardtop fitted.
Simon, the sales rep, is the Lad who lunched a VX Turbo at last weeks' Barcelona launch so I know I'm going to enjoy this test !
Climbing in, while never easy, is easier than I remembered (but I've lost 30lbs since then - might have helped!). With even the diminutive Simon in the passenger seat space is at a premium and elbows knock while we get used to each other in the car. The ride is firm but much more supple than the integra around town, the driving position, left elbow notwithstanding, is perfect. Loads of leg room & headroom. I notice for the first time I can't see the top of he clocks...ls this an issue I wonder ? Gearbox is nice but not in the Integra's league. Accurate but not so satisfying in use as the Tegs.
In minutes we're out of Wolvo on the fast dual carriageway & I open up the VX. What a fast FAST car this is ! It feels like it accelerates MUCH faster than the Integra everywhere but the missing 2k revs at the top end. Real poke is available from 2500 revs. I recall the engine being dull sounding last time, but here it screams and snarls: lovely !
I approach a largeish roundabout with nothing on it so I drop a gear and gun around. WHAT a feeling ! The car comes alive under power, and the steering chatters constantly about the state of grip and poise at the front, while the power grasps the rear and steers it like a tiller ! GOD this is great !
Hammer up the dual carriage way and there are lights on red. Boo. I look at the interior - it really is fantastic. NOT so pretty as the Elise's but no worse. Rear visibility is much better than the Integra despite the seats obscuring the rear window - in the Teg the spoiler cuts across exactly wherecars appear in the mirror....grrr...
We're off again, and I gun it from the lights - it lifts my internal organs until I change gear and back off. It feels THAT fast. It feels much more than only 1.5 seconds quicker than the Teg to 100. It also feels solid, carved from a single billet of Aluminium. Not in any way flimsy or plasticky. Pehaps its exactly opposite to Japanese car design.
OK time to turn right by the old Stewponey and hammer along the A 448 - a benchmark road for handling locally. Its a revelation, the Integra is humbled by the grip, the poise and sheer capability of the VX, its eagerness is overwhelming. I whoop ! The salesman laughs ! sh*t ! a horse ! I stamp on the brakes, they are wonderful and I slow down without drama to pass the trotting animal, how odd it is that they can sh*t while walking along .. Must try it... anyway.
The view under the hardtop brow is not good for a tallish lad (I have a long body for being only 6' tall) but its not really important. Every bend, straight & undulation is a visceral pleasure now, absolutely no body roll, nothing you don't tell it to do.
In no time we're back at Bramall's, I knock the front numberplate off while going up the carpark ramp (D'OH!) park up and climb out (getting easier !). I look back at the dripping car, ticking with effort and shining in the sun. How can I not have one ?
Hands shaken, back in the Teg for the journey home - taking the same roundabout as in the VX I can't believe the body roll ! Nor can I believe how tame the acceleration feels, and how the steering tugs under power. Its all vague and disconnected after the VX. After a couple of miles I'm hurtling round familar bends, having a whale of a time once more. Familiarity means I'm far more confident in the Teg tan the VX, but the differences are glaring. The Teg is a fantastically capable roadcar but can't hold a candle to the VX.
My order's going in today [wink]
VXT is softer, and more teg-like in ride and atitude than the NA so the jump from ITR to VXT may not be quite so extreme.
ITA, NA, VXT are all marvellous cars, enjoy 'em all.
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