barkerd

Anyone know if the rollling road graphs for power and torque are availble online anywhere for Mick's car or perhaps it was in a mag somewhere?

Is there a cam setup that delivers an extra 60bhp on an R32? The first R32 I saw on the Stealth rolling road only made about 225bhp :roll:

I did look at the EIP VR6 turbo and had a go in the StealthRacing Corrado VR6 turbo but the power was still quite lazy and all hell broke loose about 4,000RPM right up to limiter. Also traction was a problem with 400ft/lb of torque overwhelming the front wheels quite frequently and a big issue in the wet :shock: I chose to go the 1.8T route because I get the torque building heavily from only 2,000RPM and maxing out with an incredible 282ft/lb at only 3,500RPM, which is much better for road use. Also the fantastic corrado chassis deals with this level of power and torque, much more and I think 4 wheel drive is needed. I suppose this is why the V6 turbos on 4motion cars work so well. I have already converted my previous Golf II VR6 to 4wheel drive which is now owned by a mate in New Zealand and he has turbo'd the VR6 but only uses it for track days. I did not want to go thru all that again and cut up my corrado :wink:

I swapped out my 3.1 VR6 with all the goodies like Shrick big valve head, big throttle body, Schrick cams, VSR etc for a 1.8T lump with a few mods simply for performance reasons. As a package the VR6 is wonderful but my 1.8T has a massive 70ftlb torque advantage at 3,500rpm and a substantial advantage throughout the rest of the rev range that just maximises the potential of the chassis - it's so much quicker than the VR6 configuration. I think both engines are great, they just have different characters and you got to decide whether you want a cruiser or something thats considerably more punchy :evil: