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Old Jul 20, 2009 | 11:04 PM
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Originally Posted by Chip
Good info Mark, always interesting to read about the restricted cars, although I often feel that its fairly irrelevant a lot of the time to road tuning where you dont have that one single factor so massively dominating the performance characteristics, personally I love turbo engines that just rev and rev, my nova feels awesome at 8Krpm with nearly 2 bar of boost up it, but in a totally different way to when ive been in rally cars with a restrictor where its all over by about 5K!

when ive compared the way the power is delivered on one of my restricted cars to one of non restricted, I always prefer the low donw rush, and im happy to shift at 6-7krevs rather than ringing its neck to 20,00000 rpm.
just two differing choices of the same product i think.
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