can you really drive a car like this?

[ElFenix]

dyno queen

what a torque curve should look like

guess where the vtec kicks in

 

[Gusty987]

Yes.

 

[QuitBanningMe]

Not and enjoy it....I'd want at least 500hp , more torque, and all at earlier RPMs

 

[BurnItDwn]

Hah ... wow, no power at all until nearly 5000 RPMs.

 

[Kalvin00]

Yes.

 

[OS]

depends if the tranny ratios can keep the engine in that spike or not

 

[Raduque]

That first car is one peaky SOB. That's a 4-cyl for you.
Myself, I perfer 350lb-ft of torque at idle and have it just climb till redline 😀

 

[OrganizedChaos]

reguarding that first one; i'd be rather upset if i had to drive that. then again you could always raise the idle to 3800 and just eliminate that chunk of powerband

 

[Bullhonkie]

You could, but you'd be thinking that's some pretty bad turbo lag in day to day driving. Although if it had short enough gearing, it could be pretty damn fun. On the strip? An aggresive enough launch would take care of that, if you don't mind repairing whatever ends up breaking here and there. 😛

Originally posted by: Raduque
That first car is one peaky SOB. That's a 4-cyl for you.
Myself, I perfer 350lb-ft of torque at idle and have it just climb till redline 😀

Most smaller displacement turboed cars basically look like that first car - though not quite that laggy - that one must have a pretty big blower on it. 4-cyls can be pretty flat too, just look at that ITR. If you took the numbers away and only looked at the lines, one could possibly mistake it for a larger displacement engine.

 

[Vic]

Originally posted by: ElFenix
dyno queen

Whoa.

You'd want to be very careful about throttle position after 4500 rpm. Under that, you'd have your foot mashed to the floor in a deep turbo lag bog and then whoops! right off the track.

A peaky torque curve is normal in low displacement turbo but that lag is a bit excessive to say the least. I imagine they have a monster turbo on it that takes forever to spool up (but when it does :Q ).

 

[thomsbrain]

between 4500 and 5500 RPM you go from 100 HP to 300 HP! i'd call that pretty much undriveable.