Originally posted by Kaiser.:
How does that show us? He was naturally aspirated when it happened. He drove up from Iowa and then had trouble autocrossing IIRC. It showed us that problems can happen no matter what you do.
Right, with stock power, he was able to do that.. With a turbo, your chances of that happening are 10x worse. We've got people on here that have gone through multiple spider gears because of wheel hop and such. All it's going to take is one bad launch with the turbo to destroy it, unless you spend the extra bucks for the Quaife. Even Terry agreed on this point.
As I said before, to build a reliable turbo SVT is going to cost a tremendous amount of money. If you feel fine driving a $30K Contour, fine. I wouldn't be able to sleep at night, knowing that I'll never see $25K of that again.
