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Old 08-25-06, 12:38 PM   #5 (permalink)
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Mark Worthington
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Street racing a Ford GT against a punk in a Mustang makes Jesus cry. That second video make me want to puke, especially the bit about the GT suffering from turbo lag. The only reasons turbo lag would be an issue are if the packaging mandated placement of the turbos far from the exhaust ports or, more likely, if the "tuner" bolted on overly large turbos so that he would have dyno bragging rights. Furthermore, it appears that the "tuner" who did this work has an inertia dyno. I would hope the car was tuned on an eddy current sydno and the Dynojet was used for bragging rights, but I doubt it.

I was all hot about twin turbos in a GT40 when I first thought about buying a GT40 kit. However, I eventually came to the conclusion that the bundle-of-snakes crossover exhaust is one of the most endearing aspects of a GT40, both visually and audibly. Twin turbos would totally screw that up, IMO. Then there's the packaging, heat management, tuning and throttle modulation issues. I wouldn't hesitate to do twin turbos on a Cobra but I don't think a GT40 is an appropriate application for turbocharging.
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