Originally Posted by Mike Rainbird
The homo 4 cyl ones aren't that much slower, as they are lighter and also due to having a charge-cooler, run more than twice the boost, so are only 10lb ft down and 10mph down on the V8s
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Although none of that is really important when they fitted twin chargecoolers and bigger turbos anyway.
No point starting with an already fairly stessed engine when a big lazy one is available!
The concept wasnt too bad, and the choice of car wasnt that bad either, it was just poorly implemented.
The problem was that by the time they fitted the nitrous the car was so fecked it would only run a 160mph run off gas, so they really were trying to flog a dead horse!
If they had got it mapped properly, and used a progressive controller too then i reckon it would have been very close to the 200mph on gas if the box could be made to hold up to it.