Evo Death
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Evo Death
Earlier today I pulled up next to a softly tuned but loud Evo. I revved and he didn't, and then when we got going he wanted to go from about a 40 mile per hour roll and, as I'm an A4, that happens to be a dead spot. We took off and he rapidly pulled about a car on me before I stopped it and started gaining on him around 80 MPH. I caught back up to him and he hit the brakes before I could pass, this was around 110 MPH on a rather deserted rural road. All in all, it was a good run. I was told that they can be brake-boosted to a degree and maybe he did something like that to give himself that kind of a jump on me, but it was like the damn thing ran out of gear. I could hear his exhaust even over mine with the cutout open and so I knew he didn't just let off or anything, his pull really petered out around 70-80 MPH. Didn't know what had happened at the time and I was bewilderedly impressed, not knowing what to think about that pull-reversal. Maybe he ran out of nitrous pressure or something. Strange things happen on the street.
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I raced my friend Sti from 40, while i honked he spooled up his turbo and pulled about 3 cars on me instantly. Maybe 40 is a good spot for those turbo cars to brake boost. Next time go from 60 and throw it in second. Thats what i did with the sti and i pulled away hard.
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incorrect. Smaller turbod cars (like myslef, lol) have little top end. Its the size of the turbo that determins top end (smaller turbo=no top end, but low end kick is good larger turbo=more top end, less low end tq). AWD only affects drivetrain loss.
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And drivetrain loss increases at speeds increase. Hence the higher parasitic losses of an AWD car at higher speeds.
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