are NA engines fun?

[TheAngryDog]

donkmeister said:

TheAngryDog said:

I have since owned and sold a supercharged E55. Immense amount of power and a cranking engine, but the car itself was a one trick pony. The E60 that replaced it has a glorious sounding engine, but thanks to the wrong choice of garage, is an engine that is now being rebuilt. New readers rides thread coming in April when I get it back, after £11k being spent on it.

Just to check... are you talking about the Brabus E60 or a BMW 5-series?

I realise the latter is more likely but as you mentioned it replaced an E55 my heart hopes for the former.

M5. Sorry to disappoint

[Butter Face]

twoblacklines said:

But if you supercharged your K20A with the correct supercharger, you would have all the positives of a low boost setup with none of the negatives. That is, a forced induction engine that behaves like the N/A does.

Going back a bit to this post, but this is what I did. Took a K20 and added a Rotrex supercharger, still drives like a NA car (there’s not a big ‘kick’ of boost like a turbo) as the boost ramps up through the rev range.

When I first got the car it ran 204.9bhp @ 8129rpm with 142ft/lb torque.

On the same rollers it now runs 357.6@ 7880 with 238.4 ft/lb torque. It feels superb but still has the ability to rev and drive like an NA car.

[Roaduser]

What I tend to find is turbo make people giggles when the boost come, while a V8 or v10 etc tends to make people stunned when riding the waves of instant torque. Talking about the high performance variety obviously.

Edited by Roaduser on Sunday 24th February 08:36

[derin100]

I realised today that I have owned 65 cars and yet I have never owned a turbocharged car!

(Nor a diesel for that matter)