Re: anyone seen a G60 with a 16v head?

[Night Shadow <soltwede@privateI.com>]

On Tue, 13 Nov 2001, Brian Haygood wrote:

> You might could just hook a G60 up to a 2.0l 16v engine, but then the G60 is
> such a large, heavy overgrown beast that that probably isn't a decent idea.
> Why not a turbo, or other type of supercharger?  - or of course Badger 5.
> It sounds like the Badger can get about as much hp out of these engines as
> they can really handle.  A more modern 1.8T might be a better option if you
> want to get more power than that.  No real basis for that except that stock
> twin turbo 1.8T's hit 225hp, so they are probably more suited to handling
> more power than that than our engines are ( I think someone was shooting for
> 400hp from a 1.8t derived system.  That was in a twin engine A4 GTI, so
> that's 800hp total).    200+ is apparently a reasonable and relatively
> simple target with the Badger 5, so why not.

Hate to nitpick, but the 225hp 1.8T is NOT twin turbo.  It does have twin
intercoolers though.  I too am very curious about the badger setup and
it's claims.

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Eric
Westminster, CO

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