Is your car a standard 1.4 SRi? if so I'm surprised if it was quicker than a 216 Coupe off the lights, never mind a 220.
If your car is in fact 120BHP (guessing from your info under your name Teddy) then it should have given a 220 a good run off the lights with the Nova being lighter etc
216 Coupe's came with 2 engines, a SOHC Honda 1.6 and a 1.6 K-Series Rover engine, both with 110-112 BHP 0-60 on these about 9.5
Not the first person who's thought their 216 was a 220, guy up my way had a 216 Coupe with the SOHC Honda engine, claimed it was a 2litre, even though the V5 said 1.6, then when I came across him on a dual carriageway and showed him a clean set of back tyres in my 214 he proceeded to find out from his neighbour who I was, and accuse me of lying to make him look silly, and that mine wasn't a 1.4 etc etc.
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