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November 12th, 2011 01:00 PM #2
Saw that one last night. Nice work.
Too bad they didn't turbo it.
Wonder what I could get out of a Picanto with a turbo...
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November 12th, 2011 01:30 PM #3
now people will wanna buy the Spark then go to Speedlab for the performance package
win for Chevy, win for Speedlab
that's how you do it
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November 20th, 2011 01:48 PM #4
With a turbo it would be a real pocket-rocket. Being quite conservative if they managed to get some 120 to 140hp out of the 1200cc engine into such a light car would be funny. BTW I actually don't understand why this Spark was fitted with a nitrous oxide setup instead of a turbo...
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November 20th, 2011 03:33 PM #5
^ It's cheaper? And probably the owner doesn't want to go through the hassle of maintaining a turbocharged engine?
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November 20th, 2011 07:11 PM #6
Price, likely. This is a showcar for Chevy. It only needs to hit the target acceleration markers once in a while... the rest of the time, it will drive like a stock car.
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November 24th, 2011 04:10 PM #8
The cheapest is not everytime the best way to go. The nitrous system ends up requiring the bottle to be recharged and it's not exactly cheap... Also, nowadays a turbocharger setup is not so expensive as it used to be.
As far as PMS goes, it's actually not so harder as some people still think it is.
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November 24th, 2011 04:53 PM #9
There's always the extra care you have to take with a turbocharger in a tropical country like the Philippines... proper warm-up and cool-down procedures... regularly checking your oil... and more frequent oil changes.
A wet nitrous system is basically plug and play... and at the low setting they have theirs (10 seconds to 100 km/h... so probably from 85 hp to around 110...), there's not much stress on the engine.
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November 24th, 2011 05:09 PM #10
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