My favorite from the 70s...

In that car, it makes 420 horsepower and 430 horsepower, which are similar numbers to the brand new BMW M3 and M4 twins.

Obvious inspiration is Tolkien's Silmarillion? I think so.

The artist needs an anatomy class...

Well.. there you go. It's within 10 HP so my point still stands that it's not a complete dog (relative to the time).

The last turbo Trans Am was the '89 model. It was a one year only special edition. 1500 built iirc.

There was this little thing called the "oil crisis of 1979". They were trying to build a performance engine that was less thirsty than the 400. Of course, the world wasn't ready for turbo motors at that time.... but still, it's crazy that at 210 hp it was the highest power Pointiac motor since the 455HD of '75. If…

Actually, I would imagine it had a very smooth idle since these malaise 301 cu in. motors were just as de-tuned and stopped up as any other (the turbo was, of course, lower compression and had a milder cam than the NA Pontiac 301, amongst other turbo specific differences such as exhaust, fuel and carb). The turbo made…

Mmmm... daddy like. Although, if I'm spending that much on kit for my F150, I'm making if SFA.

Interesting... they are getting 233 rwhp stock? That seems low. You'd need a 25% drive-train loss for that to represent 310 crank hp. I remember my bone stock brand new 2001 Bullitt Mustang was 234whp on a dynojet. Of course, no two dynos are the same, and conditions are a big factor too but this is a lot of dt loss.

Do they run a full 1/4 mile over there or 1000 ft?

Sounds nice but the real question everyone want to know is... does it ping pong?

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That's odd. I thought the two mules sounded distinctly different. The silver one almost sounds like an i5... or a diesel.

Maybe they forged the intake side only... lol.

To Protect and Spend?

Ummm. Yeah. This is where they need to take the "eco" out of the boost... Small turbo, low lag, good mid-range, decent economy but... crap for top-end power. Which seems like such a waste when you could rev the crap out of that little motor and make tons of top end power if it just had a little more wind... but then…

Are you sure that should read "forged camshaft" and not forged crankshaft? Cause, you know, the crankshaft might see just a little more torsional stress than a camshaft.

The difference for mass transit is that they're almost always in the negative because they don't charge a fair equivalent to their costs (nor should they), so moves like this are great

"The magazine says that with the 2015 refresh of the 991 line, the basic Carrera and Carrera S will switch to turbocharged power. For the Carrera S, at least, that means a helluva lot more power:"