Anybody had high HP FWD? 400 ish + ?

Mudgey · Post by **Mudgey** » Mon Apr 21, 2014 7:40 pm

Hello,

The power bug has hit & I am on a quest to get more power out of my Lude. The problem now is all about driveability and which power adder is the way forward. I think Turbo has to be the easiest way to get big power but I am concerned about whether the massive torque spike would upset the handling of the car & whether I'd miss how controllable the engine is with the supercharger. Has anybody ever driven or owned a big power turbo FWD car and how did you get on with it?

Cheers!

Post by **si import** » Mon Apr 21, 2014 7:49 pm

use to have a turbo prelude which was running around the 400 mark . was about 6 years ago now.
i was running with crap tyres but whatever gear i booted it in as soon as the turbo came in it wheel span but when it got traction it went like a rocket .

Post by **RattyMcClelland** » Mon Apr 21, 2014 7:51 pm

My friend has a tad under 400hp in his carburettor turbo charger Renault 5. It's very impressive, it's very scary it's a small old chassis. You do the math.

Actually it's riciculous but he LOVES it.

lucas · Post by **lucas** » Mon Apr 21, 2014 7:57 pm

As long as you have the correct tyres, brakes, suspension gearbox and not to mention MAP.. 400BHP is a piece of cake for a fwd car

Post by **Donald** » Mon Apr 21, 2014 8:25 pm

Mate of mine has a Focus RS in the high 400s. He said the key was have a map switch

thing was insane and actually wasn't too much of a monster so long as it was dry. But yes being able to switch between a 'sensible' 350bhp map and whatever it was his max was nice.

3rd gen steve · Post by **3rd gen steve** » Mon Apr 21, 2014 9:09 pm

Working for fiat for as long as I have, ive done a fair bit of work on coupe 20v turbo's. Ive driven a couple of 400 bhp plus motors and have to agree with lucas, if the brakes, suspension etc has been done properly then they can handle it fine. Ive also driven a 380 bhp coupe with no other work done and it was constantly trying to attack the scenery.

mercutio · Post by **mercutio** » Tue Apr 22, 2014 9:42 pm

its the same with any fwd car the best mods on a fwd car is the chassis first so you can actually use the power you have so on a car that has a good chassis to start with it doesn't take much to tweek it to handle more power.