Small displacement engines and huge turbos.
#27
which cars are better for daily driving and street driving? miata, definitely. but once you compare topends, they will **** on us..plain and simple
#28
Pretty much.
Food for thought - the Miata came out in 1989-1990 (depending who you ask) with the best engine being a 1.6 iron-block I4, making around 116 bhp.
Hondas best 1.6 at that time was an aluminum I4 making around 160 bhp and revving to 8k.
Before anyone points out what a retard I am for DARING to compare the two, yes I know they are totally different, and that the B6 was designed before the B16A, and that the car you'd have to buy to get the B16A stock was not available in the US.
Food for thought - the Miata came out in 1989-1990 (depending who you ask) with the best engine being a 1.6 iron-block I4, making around 116 bhp.
Hondas best 1.6 at that time was an aluminum I4 making around 160 bhp and revving to 8k.
Before anyone points out what a retard I am for DARING to compare the two, yes I know they are totally different, and that the B6 was designed before the B16A, and that the car you'd have to buy to get the B16A stock was not available in the US.
#29
Again, straight line is one thing; requirements for control and application of power vary upon the type of driving you are performing / comparing. - This is apples and oranges.
If I (or most likely a majority of the members here) were simply interested in straight line trap speeds, I'd have built a V8 stroker in American Iron.
- L
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In my not-so impressive 60-ish hours of seat time, I've never been flogged by a fwd car in HPDE...at 94whp. There was a buddy in OK with an ITR swap civic who gave me a run one day, but it was pretty much stalemate.
#35
What I dont understand, is the spool on these turbos as bad as I think it is or do these configurations actually produce some sort of useable torque curve?
I just dont see the point in strapping a huge turbo, to a small engine, and not even making the power it was intended for.
I could be wrong.
I just dont see the point in strapping a huge turbo, to a small engine, and not even making the power it was intended for.
I could be wrong.
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