Did you just say 1000 HP???

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EZcheese15 wrote:It was a 3.5L, 5 valve/cylinder, V-12, quad turbo, that suposedly lagged like a mother****er for having such small turbos.


One minor detail, small turbos have less lag...


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not when its only a 3.5 liter pushing four of them...

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True, but he said for having such small turbos, not for the number of them.

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yeah but you dont get to 1000hp with a 3.5 liter engine without some pretty big turbos. It actually would have made more sense to go with twin instead of quad turbos. But its the cool and "i got millions to waste on a car" factor that probably got them to go with a quad setup. it just sounds cool as s***!!! just my opinion...

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Yes, "I just wasted millions on a car" factor is definitely nice. Even a twin setup would have been bad, they would have had to have been even bigger to get the same peak power. Sequential would be a good idea there...

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nametakennow wrote:True, but he said for having such small turbos, not for the number of them.


I realize that that sounded a way I did not mean it to sound. What I meant was, it had terrible lag, which was suprising, considering the small turbos.

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Ahh... yeah, the whole quad thing kinda threw the usual logic of turbos out the window, it seems.


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