Turbo lag in MS3?

[J-Villa]

I think you're right. I'm going to take my speed back to the dealer and get a 5 with an automagic instead. All this stick shift stuff is too confusing for me and I just don't want to break anything. I wonder if they make the 5 in powder puff blue?

Seeya

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[LukeP]

This car has a different engine above 2600 rpms.

That said, torque peak is at 3000 rpms stock....so its defintely a fine line between bogging off boost and whooshing forward. I usually don't plunk it into 6th until I'm going 70+ mph so I can use the torque peak to its full advantage. Once you're there though, all you need is a squeeze.

 

[Wurf]

:dodgy:

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[FMOS Racing]

For the record, engine "load" is not "stress." "Load" is simply a description of how hard the engine is working, but it does not translate directly to stress on the sum of the parts. You actually shouldn't have any load-induced detonation in a modern EFI vehicle unless the manufacturer's tuners have mucked up the process. Nearly infinitely variable timing through the use of multi-coil setups and such have really crunched the "load" monster.

You're much more likely to get load-induced misfire since the initiation voltage for the spark goes way up and this will start to tend to "scatter" the spark to available grounds (makes the car buck and hesitate) or other adjacent plugwires - which is a big deal since it could cause some serious pre-ignition. This can cause pretty disastrous consequences (see pictures posted above).

Something these cars do suffer from is a pretty immense boost spike. Mine spikes to about 22 psi briefly during high load transitions from vacuum to boost.