Date: Sat, 5 Jun 2004 19:13:25 -0400 From: "Fred W." <Fred.Willsnospampam myrealbox.com> Subject: Re: 2000 9-5 Aero?
"Goran Larsson" <hohnospamlid.invalid> wrote in message news:HyunGB.EDGnospamove.se... > In article <H8adnR-z8YkTM1zdRVn-swnospamphia.com>, > Fred W. <Fred.Willsnospampam myrealbox.com> wrote: > > > As can the 6 cylinder I suspect? > > Not as much as the 4 cylinder engine. The V6 has asymetric turbocharging, > i.e. one turbo is driven by one cylinder bank and feeds both cylinder > banks. The turbo pressure is quite low, 0.2 bar, and is only used to > increase the torque on low revs, not to add hp. The difference of back > pressure on the two cylinder banks is compensated by different exhaust > valve springs in the two banks and a Trionic 7 system that more or less > treats the two banks as two three cylinder engines. Furthermore, the > tiny turbo is built into the exhaust manifold and is therefore not > easily replaceable. All this makes it difficult to get more hp out > of the V6 and I know of only one tuner that have marketed anything for > it (nothing spectacular). Well, that stinks. Not having ever gone the V6 route I did not know any of that. Seems ripe for tuning if you could get a 2 into 1 then turbo config, but I guess so is any V6 engine made by anyone... Say GM perhaps? -Fred W