2.5l 5cyl via diesel crank and smaller bore

[Pantelis Giamarellos]

I think I will agree with Javad on that.

Take care
Pantelis


----- Original Message -----
From: <JShadzi at aol.com>
To: "Todd Phenneger" <tquattroguy at yahoo.com>; "Mihnea Cotet"
<mik at info.fundp.ac.be>; <pantg at otenet.gr>; <quattro at audifans.com>
Sent: Wednesday, September 17, 2003 7:15 PM
Subject: Re: 2.5l 5cyl via diesel crank and smaller bore


> If you build that motor up right, no reason you can't have 5-600hp out of
it if you wanted, heck, I'm getting close to 400 out of a distributor
ignition'ed 10v, a direct fire RS2 motor with rods, the right turbo, and of
course the proper management can make 500 crank easy.
>
> The difference between an "alleged 360" and 400hp is small to say the
least, I completely agree with Todd, I'd make 500 your goal for this
project.
>
> Javad
>
> >Right,
> > But if he is gonna spend the time and money to say, Extrude
> >HOne and P&P the head and EM, put a Ceramic Ball bearing T3/T4
> >Turbo on there, and who knows what else, why not shoot for a
> >little more than 400. I guess thats what I'm saying. With a
> >similar setup, simply moving to the T3/T4 and then doing some
> >serious chip tuning Alex and Ned ended up with a 4ktq that was
> >WAY more powerful than it was before. We did not Dyno the car,
> >but it was around 380hp before the mods and was maxed out.
> >After the changes I'm guessing the car jumped to at least 450hp
> >as it was MUCH MUCH faster.
> > I hear everything your saying, I just feel that if one is
> >going to spend lots of dough on upgrades and custome rods they
> >may as well aim a little higher.
> >l8r
> > Todd
> >
> >--- Mihnea Cotet <mik at info.fundp.ac.be> wrote:
> >> At 00:26 17/09/2003 -0700, Todd Phenneger wrote:
> >>
> >> > Anyhow, my Point was why shoot for 400hp when he is so
> >> close.
> >> >Might as well go for more and see a noticable improvement.
> >>
> >> Because the difference between 380 HP at the
> >> reliability/efficiency limits
> >> of a turbo is sooooo big when you compare it to 400 HP with a
> >> turbo that is
> >> at 80%+ efficiency and no reliability issues. 380 safe and
> >> reliable HP in
> >> the long run is almost impossible for an RS2 turbo, except if
> >> there's a big
> >> IC, very good exhaust with no cats and possibly some head work
> >> done, BTDT
> >> on the dyno.
> >>
> >>
> >> HTH,
> >>
> >> Mihnea
>
>
>