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Posted by Stepan on May 15, 2000 at 19:23:05:

In Reply to: Re: I do not particularly care for the dispute, bu posted by Quicksilver on May 15, 2000 at 17:40:22:

: Considering that tuners have obtained nearly this level of power from the 1.8L four-cylinder A4 motors without disintegrating them, I wouldn't sweat reliability issues. Besides, with that much power underfoot, I really wouldn't get too many opportunities for full throttle; the new 911 turbo will hit 0-60 in under four seconds with 450 hp...there aren't enough roads in this area for that kind of sprint...

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: : how many hours will your 450hp 2.7 last ?

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: : Stepan

Aha, you drop compression to 7.5-8 and blow 20-24 boost - bottom end needs to be modified, heads, cams and so on. European Car magasine had a review of 1.8 motor quite some time ago. For 15-17K I can have 550+ hp 7.5 boost 4.4 whcih would last for 100K miles easily. I thougt you were talking about money factor here, did you not ? Now think about it, 550+ hp on 3450 dry curb weight car. Audi, where are you ?

Stepan.

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