[s-cars] Re: Driving Impressions

[brian bilotti]

WOW! A compliment from the boostmeister himself!!!!
I'm gushing with pride especially since it seems that
Edwin has regained his birthright and name. Edwiena,
sheesh, that one really got me. I have to admit though
that someone did slip a pair of pantyhose on to him
about two years ago and I was just too blind to
realize how uncomfortable they really were. Now we're
going with the full Joe Boxer setup, no nylon or
synthetics for this boy and ohhh the freeedom.....

--- CaptMagu at aol.com wrote:
> s-heads
>
> Just thought I'd pass along more observations that
> have come along recently.
> I recently had to have my wife drive my car so to
> prepare her for this event I
> gave her a little dual instruction. She had not
> driven my car for almost 2
> years and the differences amazed her. Her first
> comment concerned the
> acceleration and boost threshold. She couldn't
> believe how quick the car felt. Her
> second observation occured as we drove up I-70 west
> out of Golden CO into the
> mountains. "Wow, you can accelerate no problem going
> uphill in 6th gear. No wonder
> you've spent so much money on this car."
>
> My second set of observations concern another
> lister's car. I am visiting the
> SFO area on a layover tonight and Brian Billotti got
> a kitchen pass so we
> could hook up, have sushi, and talk s-cars. A big
> part of these get togethers is
> me behind the wheel of his car to provide critique
> on his state of tune. Well,
> after many problems with several engines in the past
> 2 years, things are "Oh
> my goodness this car is fast!!!" now. Edwin is
> Edwienna no more. This is one
> of the quickest cars I have ever driven, period. The
> torque curve on this car
> is as flat as Twiggie. Doing a 6th gear pull from
> 2300 rpm, he's at full boost
> at 2900 rpm. My car is not at full boost until 3400
> rpm. The only major
> difference would be his test pipe vs my Borla after
> the downpipe, oh yeah, and that
> altitude thingy.
>
> I can't wait to get my car out to the ACNA National
> event at Sears Point in
> November. I think I'm going to really like this sea
> level aspect to boost
> threshold. More to follow.
>
> Hap, soon to be back in Everboost(its so beautiful,
> who cares if its 8000 ft
> above sea level), Maguire
>


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