Im for both forced and naturally aspirated, its a preference really and im yet to play with some forced in my own shed, but that will come one day. But i think the problem is and take for example the TTls1's, they claim a certain amount of power and its a decent claim, but doable with the kit they are running, yet ive lined them up and left them standing with there pants down, now if they were making this claimed power then they should be sitting beside me if not pulling away, and its funny how most of them want to do rolling 80k runs, where any donkey can accelerate off!
Also another thing is its ok to build these low budget boost engines that are making a good 500+hp, but its another issue to get them to hook up, and have a drive line to hold up to the power/torque there pushing. More power you want the more you need to spend in every aspect of the driveline.
The ls1 kits make power, no doubt about it, but like the XR6's they weigh
a stupid amount of weight. If you trap 130mph in "full street trim" most will struggle to keep up, even from a 80km roll.
Horsepower wise, if you build a 500-600hp atmo motor you still have to build a gearbox and diff, so i see no difference there, except if you did the turbo stuff yourself, there would be more money left over to do it. 500-600hp cars aren't
cheap either way, just theres many ways to achieve it.
cheers
darren
Jakes Torana vid (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1JeqZGjKXgo&NR)
This thing sounds like a jet going past! I can see my HQ 4 door with this setup... heh heh.
wow way to open a can of worms! Without getting into arguements I'll simply say this. Until you've been through it personally and done it, you can't comment or know how expensive and how hard it is to either build and drive an N/A or Turbo V8. I will tell you 1 thing, to do it right, regardless of how much power you are chasing, is expensive. And yes I do know what I'm talking about as I've been through it all and still going through it.
One on the left is N/A, one on the right is twin turbo. Never seen a workshop in its life.
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why pick one when u can have them both Geoff
some of us arent so lucky
carn trent.. u know u wanna slap on a big decomp plate and put a snail in tuffer your avatar even gives it away!
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sick car but i recon this n/a would give it a run,
Trick & mansweto cars can fly
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xEN2ngyq18k&NR
I can't open that link here at tafe but i assume it is either the silver GT or the orange cortina? Which one is it? They are both absolutely insane cars
hey boys spoke to Jake's Performance today plan is all GO!!!
sending carb up in a few weeks, and started looking for some forged pistons today, also aranged to get him to dyno it even tho i will have to tow it to the Act, will be worth the trip, so much to do and not enuff money, anyone need there car painted lol
