Thomas_W
Well-Known Member
voidfinger said:Stevo said:I watched the vid on that 8 sec turbo car and when he left the line i said "no way this car makes 8 sec. No wheelie, front end didnt even really rise. Whats the deal? They make the power in the higher rpm range?
Well man, the thing with turbo's is that you can get a really really big one that won't do much off the line, since it takes so much more exaust to run it, but up top it is going to be a jet, smaller turbos are good for lower to mid, Twins are good for low and mid, since they are usually smaller turbo's.
At least thats what i get out of it so far. I'm just starting to look into it right now too.
thats not entirely true anymore.. you can get close to if not the same "spool" performance of twins in a single now. In a PROPERLY sized single you can make as much power and have as good a spool time as a pair of smaller twin turbos. The key word here being PROPERLY. to big a turbine side and you'll have more lag.. to small a turbine and you'll have awesome spool time but you'll loose power on the upper band b/c the turbo gets out of its efficiency range.
There's a fairly fine line between to big and to small..