Originally Posted by Paul_RS

They rev to something like 9000 rpm IIRC, for the revs they pull the power isn't that impressive.

I appreciate the engineering behind them adn i'm not going to say they are shite, but i just don't like them, to me they are all fart and no shite.

Drove a couple of them in the past and on a local private road with a slight incline, whilst climbing said inclide, i did find them to start to struggle a bit. Whereas the RS 2000 i had at the time (150bhp and 150lb/ft and only revs to 6600ish) wasn't effected to anywhere near the same degree by the same section of 'track' .

From my experience i'd put some of it down to how they are geared - too long IMO, but the majority to how the power is delivered.

I'd like to drive one with a higher final drive to see if that livens them up.

Originally Posted by J1mbo

Have a giggle now then, it was!

Td04 at a 10.9 psi on a forged b18 in a civic coupe

Nothing in it to 130,

How it went, I had gearbox issues so up to fifth gear we were both a bit unsure of who was going, but in fifth he pulled out and both kept planted and I went long way round and he was most deffinately not coming by, might have been unto about 140 in the end actually I was running 23psi realistically 280 to be fair.