Whats it worth and how quick would it sell?

[Henny 0]

Most of the tuners say that a front wheel drive car can't handle more than around 250BHP 'cos over that it just can't get the power down onto the tarmac! Why do you want 300BHP? Just get the torque figure up and the curve nice and flat (same amount of torque right thru the rev range) and you'll be more than happy.... 8)

 

A supercharger on the VR makes it into one hell of a beast by all accounts... It's supposed to be pretty easy to do too 8) Then I suppose there's the NOS option you could add on too... All the rest of the stuff tends to take time and effort to do (as well as some fairly heavy cash outlays...)

[Kevin Bacon 5]

It's not so much the amount of power but how it's controlled and deployed to the tarmac, and of course what the driver tells the car to do with it. If you have a look at EIP's website, you'll see a VR6 turbo that pulls a 10.2 second 1/4 mile at 137mph, so traction and mechanical grip aren't an issue in a straight line, but who would want to deploy the full compliment of grunt around a hairpin bend anyway?

 

A typical example is Alfa's GTA which dumps 247bhp to the ground via the front wheels. They just didn't sort the chassis sufficiently enough to cope with it, same with the Saab 95. The CTR has 197 bhp and doesn't struggle deploying that at all and it has an open diff. Stealth's Corrado VR6 turbo didn't struggle with 405lb-ft either because they spent a lot of time and effort on the chassis.

 

So, some may argue that 250 is the absolute limit for FWD, but I disagree......as Phat says in his siganture, power is nothing without control. VW built 3 MK4 Golf TDi cup racers with Audi's 2.5 TDi engine and they kicked out serious power and torque and they wiped the floor with the RWD M3 cup racers.....

 

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