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Originally Posted by Scrappydoo
i don't want to start fetching facts into this but they've been around as a type of engine for over a century.
None of them as far as I know famous for torque dips.
Exactly the opposite.
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Here's 3 pages of VW Beetle dyno charts, not all of them have a dip, some do, a few way worse than the FA20.
http://www.thesamba.com/vw/forum/viewtopic.php?t=362087
Here's a stack of Porsche dyno's from the 80's and a few outliers, most of them don't make within 15% of peak torque below 4k or 4.5k rpm, even at the bottom of the torque dip the 86 is better than that.
http://www.911chips.com/dyno.html
The only reason it's noticeable in the 86 is because the 86 makes incredible torque at ~3k rpm, honestly I almost wish they just detuned it just so I wouldn't have to see three threads a week about it. I mean, it makes as much torque <3.5k rpm as the S2000 puts out peak for crying out loud.
This is not unique to the FA20.