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Old 01-31-2006, 08:14 PM
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Originally Posted by e30-ix kid
yeah but even the twin charged lancia delta only made 500 or so, haha.....only. but that thing was TWIN CHARGED and it didnt even make half of what this m1 is supposedly making, i dunno it just doesnt look believable to me. if a turbo and a supercharger and almost no regulation on general safety couldnt make the lancia more than 500, then i doubt there was anything they could do to squeeze 1200hp out of a 1.5 L 4 cyl in the early 80's. and 1200hp should look alot faster than it does in that vid.
well not only is that car capable of spinning the tires at nearly 100mph but it ran over 50lbs of boost. 1200hp is no difficult with that much boost a decent turbo. well at least when they were originally in the 2002 f1 cars that is what they ran.

Tom
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