Cheers mate!
It's moral support like this that will spur me on to doing this, and doing it right!
As to it being beaten by a 300-350bhp anything, isn't really a concern.
When we built the Evo650+ we specified that it had to do a list of things, just like I have done here, and when it was finished and upto today, it doesn't matter if someone comes along and beats it, because it does what it was intended to do.
In the case of the Evo, the fact that it has over 650bhp at the wheels is fairly fun, and it does beat everything!
My target is 250bhp and similar torque figures but with ultimate drivablity.
I don't drag race, I don't race people on the streets. I enjoy thrashing the bollocks off my GT, on my own around Windemere and Derbyshire, and this is what I'm building the engine to acheive!
I've even considered a bi-turbo setup, similar to a RX7, with a smaller, and larger turbo charger to allow the engine to rev to my 10k target and retain suffiecient boost. The downside to this would be a chance of over speeding the smaller turbo, if I dont put it in a seperate manifold with it's own wastegate!
Complicated, but I beleive we have the aptitude and equipment to acheive our goal
Keep the discussion coming lads, this threads going to be printed and put into the engines build folder.