Miata Mailing List: December 1997, Message #153
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From: 	Chris King <clking@mindspring.com>

Subject: Re: More HP or More torque (nerdish)

Date: 	Tue, 2 Dec 1997 00:55:21 +0000



Lanny Chambers wrote:



> My brother called me over the weekend with a report of driving an

> Autorotor (whose owner shall remain nameless--you know who you are!). It

> had NOT been tweaked with all the goodies--hell, they're not even

> complete as kits, so a "stock" Autorotor won't run at all--and the

> drivability was dismal at low- to mid rpm, IOW street driving. The extra

> load from the belt wanted to stall the engine at every stop sign, and the

> torque curve was full of flat spots...until he opened it up. Then, it

> worked quite well, if not quite as fast as he'd expected.



Huh?!?  Then the thing wasn't installed/tuned correctly.  I drove Kurt

Selbert's (PBC) Autorotor a couple of weeks ago and the thing ran pretty

sweetly.  Driveability was great, made 175 HP on the dyno, AND Kurt

installed it himself.  Not quite as fast as my turbo car ;-), but most

certainly not the tempramental beast painted here.



> rest of the parts you'll need. Oh, yeah: you might want to use something

> else for your daily driver, at least until the *charger is sorted out.

> 



FWIW, I drive my turboed car every day.  Drove my Sebringed car every

day as well.



-- 

Chris King

Black 93C FM/Cartech Turbo

San Francisco

  ...got boost?