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Originally Posted by Tenament05
damn.. I agreed with you up until the "turbo is cheating" argument..
If forced induction is cheating, then do you not agree we shouldnt have fuel injection and go back to manual carbs?
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To clarify, cheating in the respect that it seems like a lot of manufacturers don't try and get the most out of a N/A engine, they seem to say "don't worry about engineering the engine to the best of our ability, let's just whack a turbo/supercharger on it".
I see this all the time when reading reviews of cars. For example, a while ago I was reading two reviews next to each other in the paper, the Jaguar XJR with a 5.0 litre V8 SC engine and the Porsche 918 with a 4.6 litre N/A. Yes I know there is quite a price difference there, but the supercharged Jag is 92.8 hp/litre and the N/A Porsche is 132 hp/litre.
Every engine produced today should be getting at least 80 hp/litre N/A before going FI.