Stavros

Stu, I know you do a fair bit of turbo diesel tuning, but have you any experience of the 5litre V10 turbo diesel like in some Phaetons and Tourags?

313bhp and 550lbft as standard, any idea what itd be with a bit of your magic?

slipslide

just found some details on the net but this is just a "chip" not a custom map:
Stock tuned
power: 313 hp 367 hp

torque: 555 ft lbs @ 2000 629 ft lbs @ 2000

compression ratio: 18.5:1
top speed: 225 km/h 250 km/h

gurnE

I know you can get stupid torque levels out of that lump.

800+ lb/ft

BlueSmoke

Twisted chassis anyone?

COMEDY DAN

A decent remap should give another 30-40 bhp and another 50 -70 lb/ft.

What a beast of an engine...............!

James

i've never seen one of theses let alone been out in one but i bet they shift some!

That transmission has got to stand some abuse though!

slipslide

i think they use this engine in the lemans cars not sure of the power in them though

Pete.W

one hell of an engine, think it was top gear where they used a tourag and towed an iirc 10 tonne john deere combine harvester.

Stavros

Christ, what slipslide and dan said was pretty much what i was thinking, its pretty mental when put into numbers tho, lol.

Phaetons do weigh like, 2200kg tho! Very cool mind, dark coloured ones look awesome on the road.

Rick

i bet they go for cheap money too. I remember being at brunters seeing them testing before they were out. VW have restricted that engine due to transmission probs though.

Kevin Sharp

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i looked into buyind a new v10 touareg back in september, awesome engine but the looks of the car ...hmmm not nice IMO....i tried to like it cos of the engine, but i bought another new landcruiser amazon instead

James

yeah it's not the prettiest, the cayenne looks alot nicer than it's VW sibling.. The Q7 wouldn't win awards for looks either really..

Rhys

AWsome machines!!! I will have a Pheaton ina couple of years!! Might not be able to get V10 but willg et V6 TDI if i can afford it, awsome cars

GARETH T

you really cant call a cayenne nice looking,,, even though i do like them as cars

Rick

They are mingin.....