Mythbuster: continuing project thread of my 1303 '75

[Humble]

Good looking numbers! hows the seat of the pants feel between the different turbos, any noticable difference besides lag?

[Sandeep]

Awesome #'s Wally !

Congratulations on your 350hp aircooled daily driver

Sandeep

[Wally]

Originally Posted by Sandeep

Awesome #'s Wally !

Congratulations on your 350hp aircooled street/track driven beetle

Sandeep

You got that right Sandeep!! We don't need no stinking watercooled PEEEEEP to make serious powerrrrr

[kuleinc]

When you say your car is daily driven are we talking like a 40 mile round trip to work 5 days a week or its just street legal?

[Wally]

Originally Posted by kuleinc

When you say your car is daily driven are we talking like a 40 mile round trip to work 5 days a week or its just street legal?

I didn't say and never said that its daily driven... its not

Its also not 'just' street legal. It has the (turbo) power on the official vehicles papers! Furthermore I do track days, runs several laps Nurburgring (15 miles for just 1 lap) and drive to all european drag day events on its own wheels and in germany at sustained speeds of well over 100 mph on the autobahn.
So the car has a worse life than when it would be daily driven

[kuleinc]

I know you never said it was a DD, I just wanted clarification on how driveable it is, off the track, seems its very much so...

[Wally]

Ah, yes, its remarkably drivable: I can drive in 3rd gear 1100-1200 rpm and power on without hesitation.
That's a bit of EFI tuning as well though I must confess

[Wally]

Originally Posted by Humble

Good looking numbers! hows the seat of the pants feel between the different turbos, any noticable difference besides lag?

Funny thing is, there is just 100-150 rpm lag difference! So its hardly felt in real world conditions.

I overlaid the two dyno plots and this turbo is about the same down low, but just keeps pulling more (more torque) from 4500 rpm to 6500 rpm, while the former turbo did not make more power after 6000 rpm.
But I only did two evenings road'tuning' with it, that was it. So there's probably a little more in it I suspect (but not that much)