Supercharged Track Cars

[Plimmer]

Isnt this a rear mount single turbo S550?
Pretty sure thats a wicked quick FI platform.

http://www.mustang6g.com/forums/showthread.php?t=24964

Wish I could find more technical data on this car, but it does seem to be a turbo s550 5.0 that makes 800whp:
http://www.paulsautomotiveengineering.com/news/paes-2016-season-update

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[ddozier]

Wish I could find more technical data on this car, but it does seem to be a turbo s550 5.0 that makes 800whp:
http://www.paulsautomotiveengineering.com/news/paes-2016-season-update

That car runs 1:23.8 at Road Atlanta, that is one very quick Mustang. Track Record in a T1 class Mustang like mine is a 1:31.74. He is running GT1, GT2 type laps. Very Impressive car and driver.

Dave

 

[Norm Peterson]

You might be a bit too worried about turbo lag and onset, which any competent road course tuner can eliminate.

If that was directed toward me, any lag that I notice is going to be an annoyance, detract more from the fun than the power and speeds achieved on the straights adds to it (HPDE), and muddle needlessly with the learning process (I still consider myself an intermediate-level driver with plenty to learn and refine, in spite of officially being OK'd to run in faster groups).


Back to the topic of "is it an oil cooler or an oil heater" for a moment. It's both.

It's an oil heater during warm-up while the coolant is warming up faster than the oil, all the way up to normal coolant temperature - which is a good thing. It's still an oil cooler when your coolant is say, 225°, and your oil is 270°. And that's sort of a good thing, too. Better than nothing, just not as good as 270° vs ambient at the location of a thoughtfully-located separate oil-to-air cooler.


Norm

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