Twin Turbo Typhoon Fpv

[TurboDewd]

rumors...

*yawn*

[mickq]

I can not see Ford doing this unless it is to directly compete with a Expensive Daewoo offering. With the rumours of a twin turbo Expensive Daewoo 6, I have no doubt Ford are at least playing with twin setups to check things out.

I think the original post questioning putting twin turbos on a straight 6 was assuming (correctly) that its not that much use if its done 3 cylinders per turbo.

Sequantial twin turbos are a different matter.

Frankly, I think it wont happen for any standard Fords. Perhaps for a FPV (unlikely any time soon), but its really not necessary given how easy it is to tweak the single turbo to get all the power they could possibly want for a production car, and more.

I could only see it happening if they started losing sales to a twin turbo Holden - because people were buying off spec sheets not fact.

I have to say I do laugh a bit when people talk of XR6 Turbos and lag. I dont know about others (especially Auto drivers) but the manual XR6 Turbo I drive has stuff all lag. But then again I drive up in the rev range often.

People should remember that the underlying engine has ~180kw and isnt exactly wussy. Whacking a turbo on it is very different lag-wise to whacking a turbo on a small 2 litre engine like a standard WRX.

The 4L NA engine is pretty torquey and makes good power anyway, unlike the WRX engine. (Ask anyone who has blown off their turbo output pipe and continued to drive - the car goes well! A very different story if the same happens in a WRX...)

There is tons of torque from just 2000 revs and it comes on pretty fast. I wouldnt say its laggy. Try a 2000rpm floor-it test in just about any other turbo car and you will see real lag as you sit twiddling your thumbs for 3500rpm or so to arrive. And anywhere above 2000rpm (especially 3000rpm+) I would say there is close to zero lag - as close to zero as you could expect from a sporty car. Maybe people need to ajust their driving style. If you do it right (at least in the manual), there is no real lag to mention.

I do not believe there is any inherent weakness in the XR6T or Typhoon to justify a second turbo, other than a lame spec-sheet comparison. "Maate, moi twin turbo is twice as gooder as your single turbo.....".

[TurboDewd]

Ahh, gotta love speculation. Good for the imagination, gets the grey matter moving, gets debates going. Other than that its pure piffle. Until I see something concrete in the press then I might give it the time of day.

Remember the 427cui (7.0L) Monaro for $200,000 - it never got of the ground.

This thread has no more substance than fairy floss...for the forseeable future anyway.

[CHIPS]

.............It aint going to happen guys!

[Paradoxx]

Never had a problem with lag in the T. I guess if I was running a massive intercooler and a holset turbo or something I would notice the lag, but my 2L starion with a TD05-16G is sooooo much more laggy (it hits full power at 4700rpm) and runs 21 pounds.

You want to run turbos efficiently, which means volume not pressure. There's nothing wrong with the current turbo. I would have my T04 over a twin turbo setup purely for the $$ factor.