Re: 364 HP Beetle?!?!?!?@?!@

[Daniel Harman <dharman@sprynet.com>]

>From the claim, I would guess he was smoking some kind of dirty crack while his
head was in his arse (nice pun, huh.) Anyway, that sounds like a load of crap. My
guess is that there is a typo in that article. An 8psi VR6 with Shrick, exhaust
and whole lot of other stuff only pulls 350hp, so I doubt that a 2.0, especially
the piece of garbage they throw in VWs.

Dan

ScottyCBoy@aol.com wrote:

> I just read an article in Turbo and High Tech Performance about a 364 HP
> beetle running 14 PSI of boost from a 2.0 liter 8v!! My question is what the
> hell was the dyno guy smoking?? Even with a 50 hp shot off nitrous how the
> hell can you get 364 horsepower from a 8v 2.0 liter with stock internals???
> That's equivalent to almost 400 HP from our favorite 10V 5 cylinder. Am I way
> out of line or is there some merit to this claim???
>
> Scott
>
> Dreaming of 400 HP..