Had three cars in succession with the 1.8T.Wife had a 1.9 tdi

Bought an mx5 and was getting concerned about where the poke was.....then I found out.Drive it like you stole it:D .

Apparantly you have to thrash them and I have to say it feels like the good old days.Presume this is how v-tec people feel

Just feels like proper fun now.Highly recommended to all you turbo addicts:thumbup:

Just wonder if skoda will ever do anything about it.Probably not while they have to shop at the VW Audi store:(

Audi have gone back to raw V8 power with the RS4 - a real step forward imho.

Had three cars in succession with the 1.8T.Wife had a 1.9 tdi

Bought an mx5 and was getting concerned about where the poke was.....then I found out.Drive it like you stole it:D .

Apparantly you have to thrash them and I have to say it feels like the good old days.Presume this is how v-tec people feel

Just feels like proper fun now.Highly recommended to all you turbo addicts:thumbup:

Just wonder if skoda will ever do anything about it.Probably not while they have to shop at the VW Audi store:(

Turbos are becoming even more common because of emissions regulations.

Renault are dropping their 1.4 litre engine in favour of a 1.2T

The V8 in the '4' is awesome though

Bought an mx5 and was getting concerned about where the poke was.....then I found out.Drive it like you stole it:D .

Flippin' 'eck that took you a while!

What have you been doing, driving Miss Daisy since you bought her?! :P

Glad you're having fun.

Steve

I prefer N/A engines to Turbo engines myself.

depends on the engine and how its setup, my mazda doesn't drive like a modern turbo engine at all.

it has sod all low down pull, not much mid range and hits peak torque at about 5500rpm then peak power at about 6300rpm and its great fun to drive. still want my skoda back on the road though

I fell in love with turbos when I bought a Saab 9000 CSE with a 2.0l lpt engine. It was a massive car but the engine is fantastic. Now I have a 1.8t in an Octy estate. Great performance and economy what else can you need?

I'd prefer a V8 myself.

But interestingly the new breed of diesel and petrol engines are driving more like big N/A cars and less like old-skool turbos with lots of grunt from very low down right up to the red line.

Think my current favourite has to be the supercharged V8 - best of both worlds

Chris

ive driven turbo cars before, but must admit that its only occasionly that i miss the turbo, if you find a nice country road then you dont need it i came back cross country lastnight and it was so fun in the dark in my fsi with all the sharp corners and bends that if it was turbo it been wasted.

it was so fun in the dark in my fsi with all the sharp corners and bends that if it was turbo it been wasted.

How's that? :confused:

Chris

Not that backroad to Wantage

Believe me with the hybrid & the quaife I had a really lovely drive there on many occasions :D

driving isnt about how powerful the car is, its about how you drive it, i can get further down a road in a non turbo car than most turbo drivers due to the way you drive the car and plan ahead.

Not that backroad to Wantage

Believe me with the hybrid & the quaife I had a really lovely drive there on many occasions :D

which backroad you thinking of? chain hill has long straights which would make use of the turbo, same with a417 both gates in and abingdon in. hungerford gate is abit more interesting in my opinion along with lambourn way in after dark

driving isnt about how powerful the car is, its about how you drive it, i can get further down a road in a non turbo car than most turbo drivers due to the way you drive the car and plan ahead.

I never said it had anything to do with power ... but if my car develops more power/torque and I am using the gears to to keep it developing that power, then can something with less power over the same roads be quicker, everything else being equal?

And how quick would you be doing the same road in a turbo car?

Btw, the B4494 Wantage -> Newbury road is a cracker

Chris

I like turbo'd engines. Turbos sound great (esp wastegates) and give a feeling of urgency not normally found in na engines

esp wastegates

Noooooooooooooooooo!!!! Ch@v :P:rofl:

Chris

smstext, a vRS with a TFSi would murder your car round the same roads. they have no lag and have massive amounts of torque from low revs and pull hard high up. a remapped vRS makes around 300lbft at 3,000rpm with virtually no lag, i can't see a car witht eh same weight, softer suspension, lesser brakes and half the torque can keep up regardless of how good you think you are.

smstext, a vRS with a TFSi would murder your car round the same roads. they have no lag and have massive amounts of torque from low revs and pull hard high up. a remapped vRS makes around 300lbft at 3,000rpm with virtually no lag, i can't see a car witht eh same weight, softer suspension, lesser brakes and half the torque can keep up regardless of how good you think you are.

Quite right.

Probably didn't explain myself very well:O

Speed wasn't the point really.It's the way you have to drive the car and the enjoyment of the that drive.The experience is just more satisfying.First is longer as well which makes a difference

@ Wardy-true:P ,I kept expecting things to happen at 2000 rpm but of course they don't.You have to keep it mashed to the floor to 7k.Grrreat fun.

Plus,I like the sound (understand somehow they engineers copied the soundtrack from original 60's sports cars (somehow) and recreated it).Obviously nowt like a V8:rofl:

As I say,hard to explain,just a different kind of power delivery.

I sometimes miss my Prelude 2.2 VTEC - you can't beat a highly tuned na engine sometimes!

I like turbo'd engines. Turbos sound great (esp wastegates) and give a feeling of urgency not normally found in na engines

isn't so called "wastegate chatter" a bad thing, mechanically speaking :confused:

isn't so called "wastegate chatter" a bad thing, mechanically speaking :confused:

Don't tell the rally boys.