BeaterX round3: carnage, catastrophe, and car pr0n—aka ******* it what now!?

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Feb 7, 2011 | 08:21 AM

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scheides

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Yup this is just on the wiring connector side and it didn't look too fatigued after I straightened it out so I think it'll be good to go for a long long time.

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Feb 7, 2011 | 08:29 AM

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Originally Posted by scheides

Yup this is just on the wiring connector side and it didn't look too fatigued after I straightened it out so I think it'll be good to go for a long long time.

Yeah, if on the wiring connector, not so bad.

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Feb 13, 2011 | 06:59 AM

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Hughes made an interesting comment to me last night:

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11:05:04 PM Chris Scheidecker: its so deceiving…these cars don't make a ton of torque….but hold WOT and let revs go go go and the thing just keeeeeeeps going faster faster faster!
11:05:18 PM Hughes: haha stock turbo they do though!
11:05:23 PM Hughes: stock turbo is a tq monster

Now my stock turbo setup wasn't the most powerful I've seen, but it wasn't the weakest either. Certainly torque-wise it was roughly on-par with other pump gas setups I'd seen locally (example1, example2). Anyways, then vs now:

My point being that it is *amazing* how the headwork and kelford cams have woken up this car down low. Its freaking amazing to me! After I put the MAP tubular manifold on the car last fall it got a teensy bit doggy in the 3500-rpm area but honestly that is gone now and the car feels very very responsive. Even at only 22psi it just goes goes goes!

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Feb 13, 2011 | 08:05 AM

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11:05:04 PM Chris Scheidecker: its so deceiving…these cars don't make a ton of torque….but hold WOT and let revs go go go and the thing just keeeeeeeps going faster faster faster!!

I agree with this bigtime. I have a friend with Buschur's old X. It has a built motor and a Dom2, cammed. Rev limiter is at 8500rpm, and it doesn't feel punchy in the midrange, but it pulls and pulls at high rpm for days. Junk is fast!