[MBZ] "Way, way wrong"

[Levi Smith]

I would guess that's how it drove normally as far as the boost goes.  Until
the last maybe 10 years, most turbo'd gas cars had what's known as "turbo
lag", meaning you didn't have much power until the turbo kicked in
(frequently around 3000rpms), and at the point it really kicks in!  (:
I had a 91' Isuzu Impulse RS AWD with a little 1.6L turbo making about 160hp
stock and about 200hp reliably with the addition of a fish tank valve.  It
behaved exactly the way you describe the boost,  but it had handling by
Lotus as well, and was RWD biased.  I actually had 4 of them throughout a
few years.  Those were the funnest cars I've had.  (:  I do miss them...  It
was the same engine that was in the Lotus Elan.  Problem was that they were
discontinuing parts last I knew several years ago.

Levi (:

On 5/1/06, Alex Chamberlain <apchamberlain at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> On 5/1/06, David Brodbeck <gull at gull.us> wrote:
> >
> > I was remarking to a friend the other day that when I'm shopping the
> > bottom end of the used car market, as I tend to do, any search for a car
> > tends to involve test-driving at least one example that's a genuine
> > threat to life and limb.  I bet we could have a whole thread of people
> > relating their experiences with scary mechanical defects in used cars!
> >
> >
> >
> I test-drove a clapped-out early-'80s Audi Turbo Quattro coupe (yeah, the
> rare one) that was scary fast when the boost came on.  Wouldn't have been
> so
> scary except that the struts were totally gone, so cornering was pretty
> iffy.  Also, maybe they're all like that, but this one really seemed to
> have
> a fuel-delivery problem analogous to the ALDA being out of adjustment on a
> 603... it was deceptively sluggish up until 3000 rpm, and then took off
> like
> a scalded cat (turbo boosters, Kitt!).
>
> Alex Chamberlain
> '87 300D Turbo
> '93 Isuzu Trooper
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