1.8t in 4kq

[Brett Dikeman]

At 2:14 PM -0400 5/15/02, <David.Ullrich at ferguson.com> wrote:


>Stock 150-225 HP depending on the engine code, simple chip only mod
>puts it up to 245 on cars that started with 150 and people are
>getting up to around 550 HP with stage 3 kits

These figures are grossly overinflated; you also seem to have
interchanged torque and HP in one case.  Go check out the APR and
Hoppen websites for proper figures, but they're briefly summarized
here.

An APR "chip only" puts you at 200hp, 245 ft-lb.  Any more requires a
turbo change.  Congrats, you've now surpassed an unchipped 3B in
torque slightly, but you're 17 short in the HP department.

As for "stage 3 kits", Try 280hp with a turbo from APR; further
mods(III+) get you just over 300hp.  They don't list any other
options.  The III+ will give you about 30 more hp and about 30 more
ft lb of torque than a chip-only 3B.

  MTM's "chip only" is 187; chip+turbo stage 1+ is 193, stage 2 is
210, stage 3 is 240.  I'm semi-curious why APR seems to be getting
drastically higher numbers compared to MTM.  I wonder if MTM is
measuring at-wheel and APR is measuring at-flywheel.  Who knows, they
don't even put units on their charts :-)

I have no idea where you got "550 hp"; MTM's tuned RS4(which, of
course, is not 1.8t based) is around 510 hp.

I remember reading about the bimoto TT, which has around 500-600hp
per engine...but those engines are massively modified down to the
most basic specifications and probably have tens of thousands of
dollars of work in them.

>, and that's from a 1.8 liter engine more is being squeezed on
>stroker motors. How in the world is that average performance? I know
>the 20VT is a great engine, but it's expensive to install, expensive
>to fix and the 1.8T is an economical alternative that has the
>advantage of great potential, lower parts cost, lots of aftermarket
>support and techs in the dealers that still know how to troubleshoot
>it.\

The difference is that for $500-600, you've power+torque levels it
would take an 1.8t owner about $4,000 to match.

The 3B engine owner laughs, spends half as much($2000-2500) and gets
an RS2 conversion with at least 30+ hp over APR's stage III+.

What was that about "economical"?

As the old saying goes, there's no replacement...for displacement.

Brett
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