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Engine Stage 3
b) We already knew that big BHP together with a spec'd engine is normally achieved by having a rotated "clocked" turbo arrangement. Whilst this was the proven way, we really wanted to see how far the standard position turbo "straight drop in arrangement" could be pushed, as 500bhp with this arrangement was deemed to be luck more than a given. In the true nature of previous articles we wanted to see if this was really the case and whether with better choice of parts we could achieve what was not the norm.
c) Lets be honest.... small tweaks of the current platform were now out of the question. We wanted a much faster and much more powerful car!
See... that was not that hard was it (we wish)!!
So to be clear on our remit we decided on the following:
2.5L Engine configuration
Standard position turbo
500+bhp (I know we have harped on about peak figure chasing, but we needed some form of goal)
One hefty development budget (we needed to be fairly realistic on this one)
Above all the car must remain as driveable as it was after Stage 2
A tall order.... we will wait and see!
STAGE 3 - ENGINE MODIFICATIONS
We never envisaged we would be thinking about a Stage 3 for the engine, let alone actually going through with it.... best laid plans and all that. Above all it has showed how addictive this tuning is.... like pringles, once you start you can't stop.
We had achieved very good levels of performance by the end of Stage 1 and 2, with driveability being goal. As mentioned earlier this was one key area we wanted to carry through Stage 3.
Since we would be working from a blank "no holds barred" point of view, we wanted to include a number of discussions with different professionals about how we could achieve our goal. This ultimately meant we would be working with a number of companies that had not been involved in this project before.
Previous supporters namely PowerStation, Litchfield Imports, API and ScoobySport were already onboard and eager to carry on support, together with new insight and help from AET Turbos, Lateral Performance and last but by no means least Tracktive Solutions.
As with previous articles we have decided to give some background information on these new supporters of the Project during specific areas of this publication.
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