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Offline Stig_gti

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Re: Getting the most from your turbo
« Reply #15 on: December 23, 2013, 04:28:56 pm »
What sort of power would you be looking at with the beach buggy hybrid.
With supporting mods??


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Re: Getting the most from your turbo
« Reply #17 on: December 23, 2013, 05:19:35 pm »
Top man missed it cheers looks good

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Re: Getting the most from your turbo
« Reply #18 on: December 23, 2013, 11:28:24 pm »
Don't mean to be a killjoy but is such power that we get from a KO4 upgrade/map etc simply not too much power for a front wheel drive car?

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Re: Getting the most from your turbo
« Reply #19 on: December 24, 2013, 09:23:33 am »
You know the throttle has many different positions, not just fully open.

I've been in Rich's Eddie and felt that it could handle more power. My old car had 221 and 365lb ft and again that felt fine... albeit it an LSD would maybe help for a serious track day slag. But these Mk5 chassis are quite good for a FWD, you don't get the torque steer and huge understeer that an Astra for example gets.

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Re: Getting the most from your turbo
« Reply #20 on: December 24, 2013, 12:15:24 pm »
Don't mean to be a killjoy but is such power that we get from a KO4 upgrade/map etc simply not too much power for a front wheel drive car?

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Re: Getting the most from your turbo
« Reply #21 on: December 24, 2013, 12:25:08 pm »
K04 with stage 1 is perfectly ok in the dry... in the wet, thats a different story...