Laugh....I thought my pants would never dry!!!

Just bought this months REVS magazine, as there is a feature on a 375bhp Impreza!

Is the owner on this board, cause I would love for him to explain how his tuner managed to get 375bhp out of a Scooby, with ONLY 1.6 bar??????????? Oh and all this on a 95 octane map!!!!!

Must of used Mr Magoooos rolling road facilities.....or was it a case of number punching on a calculator!

Shaun.

 

I thought exactly the samething myself, there has been a few others as well in a couple of other magazines claiming +300bhp.

I thought the Alloy block could only take so much!!!!

Muddy.

[This message has been edited by muddy (edited 31 December 2000).]

 

"she canna take much more captain, she's gonna blow"

Maybe it was a typo - 37.5 bhp at each wheel

I might have to buy the mag just for a laugh

 

It is possible to make a real 300+ bhp on standard sti internals. Even on Shaunn's favourite rolling road.

 

Remember the WRC is probably making near this sort of power - whatever Prodrive might claim to the contrary

But yes of course I know it does have trick internals.....

 

Remember that the WRC does this with the mandated 34mm turbo restrictor plate!

 

yehaaaa kelley, bet your into NASCAR.

The WRC car produces around 340BHP but a stagering 480Lb/ft of torque IMHO.

It is limited on power by a 34mm turbo restictor on its inlet. I just love the sophistication of holley downdraught restrictor plate V8's. Yehaaaaaaa

and yup, i've had a drink or 3 Happy new year

 

Bit like the 340 hp job in last months - with an exhaust and "chip".

1/4 mile in 14.5 ish secs...........

t0ssers...........

 

hi CraigH
going to get metal mesh 2day if anywheres open!! lol

Where do these people turn up from that get there cars in these mags????
If you are a scooby car mad freeeeekkk are u not a SIDC members as well????
most now have E-mail/Net access thus would be useing this ScoobyNet!!!!!
Do any of you lot know these peeps that come out with all this stuff, bhp etc etc.... then get there pride+joy in Boys mags??? LOL

Is it a thing that Motor mags do (propaganda)to make the world and his girlfriend wanna FAST CAR!!!!!!! we'll get a scoooobbyyy dooo!!!!! they'll blow my mates nova!!!!!
lol

you would think someone would know the car!!!??!!?


Phil

 

Shaun.
Where did you get 18psi from? I don't have the mag here, but I believe the car acually has two boost settings...12psi and 24psi.
I was initially dubious about the figures myself when I saw the front cover, but when you look at the mods he's got those figures can't be far wrong. Then again, he has spent some £30,000 on mods in total!!!!!
He doesn't have the Scoobysport Brembo conversion, but has the yellow Brembo calipers (GGR?), and the work was also done by an outfit near Bicester that I have never seen mentioned on here, which probably indicates he doesn't post on this bbs.
He uses Green Stuff pads so he clearly isn't a track day regular!
Either way, it's a nice car. I may get Revs to contact him so we can invite him to a rolling road day to see how accurate those figures really are.

Stef.

 

Which rolling road are we going to use?

Dan

 

Stef you jibbering muppet

I never said 18psi....I said 1.6 bar (which = 24psi 'ish).

375 bhp......yeah right! and on 95 octane petrol...I SAY 95 OCTANE PETROL!!!!

Shaun.

 

Shaun you Wobbling Loggermuffin!
OK I misread you!
Does it actually say he's had the Motech mapped for 95 ron as well? I can't remember. I'd like to know how they got those figures though, as there isn't a 4wd rolling road there. Perhaps they are actually engine dyno figures, in which case you'd all be eating your hats.

Stef.

 

Bags of Torque that Revs car's got.

370LB or sumting..... lots!

NeilR

 

It was 24 psi - so 1.62 bar. Near enough!!

 

Stef,

Yeap it did state he has it mapped to 95 ron through the Motec??????

But before I eat my hat, I bet the owner will be eating his busted internals.....followed by his wallet!!!

Shaun.

 

Stef

The brake conversion you posted about earlier on this car is probably the Porsche brake conversion from

 

I had a look at that article yesterday and it said in the specs column the turbo could run up to 2.2 bar. Would give anything like the power quoted or blow things up!?

 

The turbo MIGHT.....but the engine would'nt (handle it, that is!!!).

That is some boost, just over 32psi!!!!!

Shaun.

 

Paul.
I think it's just the other Brembo kit available from places like GGR or PE that use a yellow Alfa caliper.

Shaun.
(edited 'cos I'm a logger! )
I'm sure the engine he's got could take the power. Haven't you seen what's inside?

Stef.

[This message has been edited by Stef (edited 03 January 2001).]

 

Stef,

What's the problem? 1.6 bar is 24psi, 2.2 bar is 32psi. 1 bar = 14.7 psi.

 

2.2 x 14.8 = 32 (or actually 32.56 before Sunlip tells us it to 12 decimal places.....)

 

Carl
Not contradicting you - you posted while I was typing.....

 

Dave,

I figured that anyway. Also, doesn't matter how many decimal places sunlip gives us -- the accuracy of the answer is limited by the accuracy of the input variables. In this case, one of them is only one decimal place (2.2 bar) so giving any result with more than one decimal place is meaningless

 

Carl
I am old enough to work in psi - I spit upon your Euro measurements.....

 

14.7 x 2.2 = 32.3 psi to one decimal place.

I thank you.

A.

 

Stef,

You human log eater!!!!

Should of told me you were that thick.....I would of bought you a calculator for christmas, if I had known!!!!!

Like I said 32psi is a mega amount of boost!!!! I would love to see a Scooby engine run that for more than 2.2 miles!!!!

£30,000 aint much Stef, when you start to uprate diffs and the rest of the tranmission (which he would defo. need for that kind of power, based on standard scooby tranny cack!)

Shaun.

 

I think that some of you should read the article again.

The figures are certainly attainable with the mods the guy has had done.

If you take into account the figures that both Anders, and Nicky G got, running MUCH less boost (for the bhp figures) this guy's figures seem very realistic.

If some of you guys new what figures were "actually" being got from these engines, you'd be very surprised.

Mark.

 

Having scanned as much as I could in the newsagent it also says its a 2.2l (2197cc?) 22b engine?

 

Bloody psi! Who cares?
I'm just saying that the engine has clearly been built using decent components and the boost is high enough to give those figures, so they may not be far wrong.
How long it lasts is another matter, but if he's got any sense he'll save the high boost switch for.......special occasions.

Stef.