Whats the reason for the 50 killowatt loss on the 6T? I thought it would/should be around 30 killowatts.

Cheers

Jim

Jim,

there is no set amount for drivetrain loss on any vehicle. Like we know in the WRX club, very similar cars can make different figures, sometimes by larger margins. Tyre patterns and designs, age of the driveline (vehicle kms), type of oil used (yes) etc can show variables.

For eg, look at a stock MY98. Made 90 odd kw ATW (a rough accepted figure) and yet they made 155kw fly wheel. In the case of the WRX, the AWD drivetrain saps a lot of power.

Two wheel drive cars do not traditionally lose the same amount of power on a % basis. A car with 18s might do different figures to a car with 17s etc.

Andrew

Cheers mate, I just thought that most rear drive cars lose around 30 kilowatts at a guess, like if someone asks me what the rexy would lose I would say 70 kilowatts give or take a few.

Cheers

Jim

I drive a V8 XT in manual and it is limited to 5250rpm. It's very underated in it's performance as well as how much fun it actually is. The only gripe is that when drinving hard through the gears 3rd is a real b**ch to get into unless you back off alittle.

really?? I thought that was only a problem with the T-5G in the XR6Ts, NOT the V8s..

Dave.

really?? I thought that was only a problem with the T-5G in the XR6Ts, NOT the V8s..

Dave.

Yep it has that problem. Basically if you accelerate hard through to the cutout in second it will not go into third. You have to back off the accelerator before it will go in. It is very frustrating as you lose too much time. I had an embarrasing situation when I had a quick run with a mate of mine who has a VXII SS. Through first and second we were even and then I lost half a car length before I got into third and then we remained relatively even. It'll have to be checked when it goes in for its 3000km first service. It has 2000km now.

you mean you can keep up with gen3s???

have you got any pics of your BA??

Dave.

No pics yet Dave, I'll see what I can do.

Yeah it can keep up to a point but I believe the geniii would have gotten me if we kept going. But I'm happy with that as the XT has just on 2000 kliks so it's still not run in properly yet.

Here are a few pics... she's alittle dirty though

another

the dash