Who has the car with the most HP

wrx · Post by **wrx** » Fri Mar 11, 2005 6:03 pm

Sorry for posting that twice.

Zoheb, as I said, it is the Car and Driver magazine, published on Feb 2005. They called it a "Comparison Test - Mitsubishi Lancer Evolution MR Edition vs. Subaru Impreza WRX STi - THE REMATCH". The article starts on page 60 of the mag and ends on page 71. I did not get the article from the net, I have the actual hard copy of this magazine, purchased from Malaysia on my visit last month. And, I don't think its an Asean Edition, it is priced US$3.99, UK£3.20 and Canada $4.99. If you still have doubts, I can fax you a copy of the page in question if you can give me a fax number. Or, I can try to see if I can borrow a scanner from someone to e-mail the concerned page to you.

rxse7en :
1. I am running an external wastegate - which is controlled by the boost controller.
2. It was tuned on our pump fuel and on our roads. I had the tuner flown in from his country of residence. The computer had a base map in it tuned for 91 ron fuel. But, as I said above, the fine tuning was done in Dhaka after the engine was installed.
3. The tuner carried a portable wideband air fuel ratio meter with him. The o2 sensor was attatched to the exhaust via an exhaust clamp. A large digital display was attached to the windscreen. It was a serious piece of kit. I was doing the driving while he was doing the tuning. Though, he had to do some driving also. I know it is ideal to tune on a dyno, but what could we do here ? I would have kept the air fuel ratio meter, but it was just soo expensive - and the o2 sensor gets fouled very quickly if you keep it on all the time. There is a cheaper wide band meter out in the US, which I will go for. You probably know that narrow band o2 sensors are useless for tuning.
4. The fueling is set to run rich in the higher rpms - too rich for my liking but he wanted to minimise the risk of engine damage from a bad batch of fuel - 11.9 to 1 if I can recall (?).
5. The computer is an aftermarket unit that comes with a hand controller. I can alter the fuel and ignition maps myself. So, if I had race fuel, I could advance the ignition timing to get more power with the hand controller. But, before I do that I'll need to get the wideband sensor/meter.

The brakes are 6 piston with 378mm (14.90 inch) disks. I don't see the point of the mods unless you can stop when you need to !

Hope this answers your questions.

wrx · Post by **wrx** » Sat Mar 12, 2005 1:08 am

Zoheb, I have found the article on the Car and Driver website.

Check the link below. Or, you can go to the Car and Driver homepage, click the link to "Ultimate Comparisons", then click the link to "Bad-Boy Sedans", go to page 4 of the article - and 'voila' - you have the performance figures. Now, if you still can't find it, let me know.

http://www.caranddriver.com/article.asp ... e_number=4[/quote]

Impreza STi
0-60 mph (96 km/h) = 4.9 sec
5-60 mph (96 km/h) = 6.4 sec

Evo 8 MR
0-60 mph = 4.8 sec
5-60 mph = 6.3 sec

zoheb · Post by **zoheb** » Sat Mar 12, 2005 3:34 am

hmm. different times in two different articles....quite interesting. wonder how they got better time in the STI b4 and worse in the newer one. :roll:

rxse7en · Post by **rxse7en** » Sat Mar 12, 2005 11:19 am

wrx: Great reply!! That is exactly what i was wondering. If you DIDNOT have an external wastegate, the boost controller wouldnot do much to limit boost.

I know that you dont like ur A/F up higher in the band, however it is always better to be safe then sorry. I can understand that your loosing some power up there, however running rich, i guess is the only safeguard.

Get that wideband, it costs around $450 i guess, not too sure abt the price though.

Great replies, glad to know that there are still some people left, who know what they are doing to their cars.

What kinda ignition system r you running??

HKS twin pack??

wrx · Post by **wrx** » Sat Mar 12, 2005 1:37 pm

I don't know the brand of the ignition, it doesn't say. They were supplied by the tuner, who is also the mechanic who builds the engines and races his fleet of cars.

What kinda ignition system r you running??

HKS twin pack??

abacab · Post by **abacab** » Sun Mar 13, 2005 3:31 am

Not that I know or care about cars, but I can still feel wrx's knowledge about the whole thing..

Samar_aka_binGaLi · Post by **Samar_aka_binGaLi** » Sun Mar 13, 2005 10:17 pm

wrx,can u please post a pic of ur engine bay

wrx wrote:Zoheb, I have found the article on the Car and Driver website. Check the link below. Or, you can go to the Car and Driver homepage, click the link to "Ultimate Comparisons", then click the link to "Bad-Boy Sedans", go to page 4 of the article - and 'voila' - you have the performance figures. Now, if you still can't find it, let me know.

http://www.caranddriver.com/article.asp ... e_number=4

Impreza STi
0-60 mph (96 km/h) = 4.9 sec
5-60 mph (96 km/h) = 6.4 sec

Evo 8 MR
0-60 mph = 4.8 sec
5-60 mph = 6.3 sec[/quote]

wrx · Post by **wrx** » Mon Mar 14, 2005 12:47 pm

Samar

The engine is quite dirty and needs a wash. But, I'll post the pic fr u

zoheb · Post by **zoheb** » Tue Mar 15, 2005 2:46 pm

wrx wrote:Sorry for posting that twice.

Zoheb, as I said, it is the Car and Driver magazine, published on Feb 2005. They called it a "Comparison Test - Mitsubishi Lancer Evolution MR Edition vs. Subaru Impreza WRX STi - THE REMATCH". The article starts on page 60 of the mag and ends on page 71. I did not get the article from the net, I have the actual hard copy of this magazine, purchased from Malaysia on my visit last month. And, I don't think its an Asean Edition, it is priced US$3.99, UK£3.20 and Canada $4.99. If you still have doubts, I can fax you a copy of the page in question if you can give me a fax number. Or, I can try to see if I can borrow a scanner from someone to e-mail the concerned page to you.

wrx! u don't have to send me that......its not that i'm saying u r lying....i just thought u might have mistyped the numbers......but yeah.....what i wonder is how u r able to run ur car so fast in BD roads.....its simply sounds impossible.....

prolly u r right.....ur car might be capable of propelling 600 hp......or may be there was something wrong with the watch u timed.

wrx · Post by **wrx** » Wed Mar 16, 2005 3:30 pm

Zoheb

The stopwatch is O.K. I checked it against my wristwatch later. But, I didn't check the wristwatch, so that could be faulty :!:

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zoheb · Post by **zoheb** » Sat Mar 19, 2005 2:57 pm

:lol:

confusedcat · Post by **confusedcat** » Thu Apr 14, 2005 9:35 am

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Type - R · Post by **Type - R** » Thu Apr 14, 2005 9:56 am

Yo Confused cat , AMG is derived from the original founders' initials: Hans-Werner Aufrecht and Erhard Melcher, as well as the town in Germany where Aufrecht was born, Grossaspach.

AMG offers limited production, performance-enhanced cars for the true driving enthusiast. These high-performance vehicles differ from standard Mercedes-Benz versions in their more powerful, high-performance engines and drivetrains, modified exterior aerodynamics, AMG alloy wheels and interior equipment to deliver top-level road performance and exclusivity within the Mercedes-Benz brand.

AMG was founded in 1967.

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Tauhid

Post by **GTI VR6** » Thu Apr 14, 2005 11:22 am

Our first female member.........welcome to the board.

Tawhid · Post by **Tawhid** » Fri Apr 15, 2005 1:09 am

GTI VR6 wrote:Our first female member.........welcome to the board.

Yuiiiiiicks u didn have too say that! ofcourse there were othe female member we just didn guess them out. I guess!

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