Can't quite work out why there's so much bitching from some camps on this turbo though. It isn't huge. It's a bolt on, and on the glof it's enough to make an RS4 think 'what the effs that' when they can't shake you from their arse from 40mph until go straight to jail speeds.
It's an RS4 driver I see regularly, and last night (on our private test track) was the first time he hasn't pulled a couple of car lengths by silly speed. Last night got a massive thumbs up and a grin from him.
It's more than enough power for your average driver (me) on the road. It's got to the point where I now have to treat the accelerator with some respect rather than use it as a binary control.
I've driven jabbas ibeza, and loved it, but after the adrenaline subsided, and the subsequent headache cleared, the old man in me decided I wanted to live at least another year or two.
For a track car where you can turn the boost down for road use, then I can see it's great. But for me I don't have the self control to turn the boost down.
I never took my bike test as the day after I'd have been on a fireblade for about 10 minutes and then in a coffin.
And yep glen and bill your bang on, it's the poxy k03s exhaust turbine thats the bottle neck. Not much can be done about that one.