Turbos
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Currently or past ?
Currently a Porsche 911 Carrera 2 S, but previously, he's probably owned more cars than you've driven. His 400bhp Impreza was made of win, and his higly tuned supra is the stuff of legends on this forum
He's also well known for his dislike of the S2000
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He's been there, done the VTEC, hated it & moved on. You wont be changing his mind any time soon with un original comments like that
Doesn't spool at 200rpm, but I would say that is pretty much maximum power to the redline.
yeah dull as dishwater, i often find myself asleep due to its neutral handling, average engine and middle of the road design
nice comeback though, it was nothing if not original, actually it was just nothing
(mark, 9 cans, a packet of fags, a deliverance meal and now i fancy the casino!)
He's been there, done the VTEC, hated it & moved on. You wont be changing his mind any time soon with un original comments like that
Who are you, his spokesman?
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To me that says you'll accelerate well between 2.5k and 5k giving a power band of 2.5k rpm, if your shifting much after 5k your probably going to end up going sower, providing when you shift at 5k the next gear lands you at 2.5k
If you take 2500RPM as the start of the useable torque, then it's still producing significantly more than that at just under 7000RPM.
With any luck he will have more than a 3 speed gearbox so dropping 2500 RPM on a gearchange shouldn't happen.
You also can't assume that maximum torque at the wheels at any given speed will be in a gear that puts you at maximum engine torque - you may get more by dropping a gear and moving engine RPM up to give you more power.
Yes it is boring. It makes you the same as every other **** Porsche driver, who spends loads of money on a car thats looked the same for 40 years.
When you think what else you can buy for the money, it's bland.
My apologies everyone I never imagined a simple question would spark all this
Yeah that's why a 1.7L Volvo 480 Turbo will annihilate a 3.8L V8 NSX vtec, c'mon dude that's a pretty general statement to be making
If your getting a really big kick when the cams swap you need to take it to a tuning company and get them to lower the change over point as sounds like its delaying too long hence the big jump at changeover its supposed to be a pretty smooth transition, on some cars you can barely even feel the difference just hear it.
Yeah that's why a 1.7L Volvo 480 Turbo will annihilate a 3.8L V8 NSX vtec, c'mon dude that's a pretty general statement to be making
If your getting a really big kick when the cams swap you need to take it to a tuning company and get them to lower the change over point as sounds like its delaying too long hence the big jump at changeover its supposed to be a pretty smooth transition, on some cars you can barely even feel the difference just hear it.
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Go the Renult 5 Turbo route.
What else can be bought for the money that can do the job as well as the Porsche, but more importantly, for as long as the Porsche will do it for.
What is it you drive, Smokey?
Yeah its a bit rude to trash talk the guy just because you don't like his car, personally I hate the look of every porsche bar the 917 and 962 (had the scalectrix's as a kid) but I dont dislike them or the people who choose to buy them. Just because they have used the same design for 40 years (why not, people like it, it sells) and tried to keep the overall look of the car doesn't really make it boring/bland or make him a **** Porsche driver. Now the new Fiat 500, that's bland/boring/40 years old ^^
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