edbo
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The site was saying the Turbos come fully spooled at 3,000 RPM on the 4.6 applications which I feel is 'perfect'. You can run around town and not even get into it. As for the comments of never reaching 3500 RPMs in a race, you cannot be more wrong. I once had a 4cyl Turbo (1/2 the cylinders, 1/2 the turbos, but very much the same concept) set to spool at 3k with 9lbs boost. Learning to keep a Turbo spooled/unspooled isn't very hard at all. Knowing your 'lag zone' is important as well. Shifting can be very important as a very quick shift with spooled up Turbos will keep you in the power without having to go through another lag zone. My '79 'Stang (2.3L Turbo 4), wasn't much for its day normally aspirated with factory settings (6lbs boost), but after getting it set up for 9lbs, it's potential was instantly doubled. Keeping the turbo spooled up and staying above the lag zone resulted in this 4 banger of a car to literally smoke the tires off of it in 2nd, 3rd AND 4th gears (the car was a 4 speed) not to mention blow away any NA V8 powered car made that year! The biggest drawback to spooling was spooling for a launch as you have to have the pedal down and the RPMs revved pretty high but you'd launch like being shot out of a cannon! Now, what I'm talking about here is 4cyl/single Turbo applications from over 25 years ago! The concept of a V8 Twin Turbo just makes me drool at that concept even more than ever! Especially if I could slap this thing into my '98 Vert! One thing's for sure, they sure as hell have gotten expensive! A bolt on single turbo system for 4cyl in '79 could be had for about 1000 bucks (and I thought that was pretty pricey then!)... But yeah, Turbo's are awesome toys! Now if I could just win the lottery and buy a pair of them!