Legacy Turbo's boost and hp questions...
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I found a car in some classified ads here in chile. There's a Legacy touring wagon Turbo from 1994 (Still the BF body, at least in Chile for that year.) with 220hp. I know that opposite to US (I have NO idea about UK legacies) cars, some of which had 2.2 liter engines and no intercoolers, in chile turbo legacies came with a 2.0 liter engine an an intercooler. My question is, can a stock turbo wagon make that amount of power? Besides that, how much boost do these cars make (stock) and how much is it safe (of course for short periods of time, say less than 30 minutes for each high boost run.) to run? What power increases can be expected from this rise in boost?
Thanks,
Kotaro
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Kotaro
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depends if you run a full de-cat exhaust, filter etc. with the increased boost
never had mine dyno'd but i think you'd get around 240+ (someone correct me if i'm wrong)
kev
never had mine dyno'd but i think you'd get around 240+ (someone correct me if i'm wrong)
kev
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with, but it's only a guess try this link http://dyno.scoobynet.co.uk/indexwl.htm look for the standard turbos (not wrx) and it'll be close enough
kev
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There are a few things you need to think about:
1. Ambient temperature
2. Fuel available (RON/MON)
3. Altitude above sea level
4. Humidity
I don't know much about Chile to be honest but if it is very warm or high altitude, this will affect the power due to the lower mass of the air.
If your local fuel is not very good quality (Japan has 100 RON, the UK get 98 RON) then the amount of boost you can run is limited.
Humidity also has an impact on performance.
You may be better looking at optimising cooling - especially intercooling (possibly water injection) to get good power gains.
Thanks
Gavin
1. Ambient temperature
2. Fuel available (RON/MON)
3. Altitude above sea level
4. Humidity
I don't know much about Chile to be honest but if it is very warm or high altitude, this will affect the power due to the lower mass of the air.
If your local fuel is not very good quality (Japan has 100 RON, the UK get 98 RON) then the amount of boost you can run is limited.
Humidity also has an impact on performance.
You may be better looking at optimising cooling - especially intercooling (possibly water injection) to get good power gains.
Thanks
Gavin
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