One of the only ways to make good horsepower through a N/A engine is higher RPM. If you look at all the N/A cars that make high horsepower they have redlines in the high 8k mark. Take the new Lotus Elise for example. It makes only 100hp at 6250 RPM which is where the ti redlines, but after that the Elise uses higher rpm to take advantage of the cams to put out 164hp @ 8000 rpm at the wheels. This is also why Honda's V-TEC works. The cams do nothing until you get around 5000 RPM and its all hp from there. In order to do this to a ti you would have to do a full balance, port polish, forged everything, higher compression pistons, cams, and a fuel map to take advangtage fo the cams. And of course you could run nothing less then 93 octane gas, and even thats pushing it. Sure it would be nice to be able to run with forced fed cars, but when you look at your wallet you might cry. |