Nice write up Scott, is that Autocar I hear knocking on your door...
It's interesting how the new verses old turbo tuning discussions go, I read on Facebook a post by FB tuning that a customer had a 2.1 stroker with a twinscroll set up and wanted it mapped to be a reliable, useable car that wasn't simply making crazy power. I thought it made a change to see someone with that mentality and it was clear the torque was available early on, the graph shown was very smooth and linear. It begged the question in my own head though, do I like the sudden thump of torque and power that makes a car like a Scoob so exciting, or would it be nice to run a decent powered car that pulled possibly unnoticed though effortlessly through the revs.
I recently had a go in a friends 2011 RS5, reading up on all the vital stats I was looking forward to the power and torque and yet it just seemed to 'go fast' rather then 'go excited' and although I know it's an NA engine, it's what many modern turbo charged engines are wanting to achieve.
Maybe as Impreza owners we love that 'all off or all on power' and how our cars are often miles different on the normal roads as they are on the track.
For the record by the way, I love the blue colour, I just worry the front end would be full of wildlife it had scooped up on every drive.
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