Originally Posted by
lukeytheduke
Haha. Your going to take the title for "any oppertunity of a photo" the amount of times u put the pic up of your goodies
Seriously it should be a weapon but interesting u only want torque, 400 i believe i read... But surely torque and bhp are related?? Often wanted to ask that question
Not really, the saying goes BHP sells cars, torque wins races.
HP is a calculation of torque so they do have a relation, my advise would be to read Stus article he done on for "Fast Ford" (On MSD's website), he explained the two in great depth.
It's kind of hard to explain but if you have ever driven a Diesel you will can kind of understand it, Diesels generate lots of low down torque which is why they make good candidates for towing as they have a lot of "Pulling power".
I personally would rather have a torquey engine than a powerful one as it means the car is nicer to drive, i.e. less changing gears etc, power is all top end which in a lot of scenarios you don't get to exploit!
To the OP I would say around 320HP but it's impossible to say as you don't know what size turbo you have, also knowing the boost pressure can give a rough idea, a T34 is a hybrid turbo and an Escos turbo and fitted as an upgrade. Then you have the exhaust housing which is typically a .48, .55 or a .63.
The bigger the exhaust housing the more boost it will be able to generate but the downside is the lag will increase.
L1 is standard management, only would need to upgrade to L8/P8 IF you want things like anti-lag,LC,CL etc and then in turn requires turbo/ISCV mods as well as a complete new chip which you have just brought!
I am nearly 23 and had my Saph since I was 19, there is no reason why they should be any different to drive than any other car, provided your sensible.
Martin