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I find it very hard to believe that you are seeing 20-30 HP at the Wheels, nor do I believe that Snow can truthfully expect 20-30 HP the wheels without tuning based on their experiance. Not that I don't think that Snow is very knowledgable, but I can't think of any Acura or VW that comes from the Factory with a Turbo AND AWD.

Most of the cars that they are refering to would have to be modified to have a turbo and if they have a turbo they are more than likely going to be heavily tuned. For the VWs that are Turbo'd they still will not be accurated numbers because there is a HUGE difference between FWD and RWD compared to AWD. AWD is parasitic and eats more HP along the way to get the car moving.

For example most stock WRX's are initially Dyno'd in the 180-190 range, but at the crank they have 220.

In other words you need 2 Dyno pulls: One Stock and the other with the mod.

Also for those that would like to read more about W/M/A injection, NASIOC has a forum entirely dedicated to it.
http://forums.nasioc.com/forums/forumdisplay.php?f=145
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VW Touareg V10 TDI is turbo and is AWD

Acura RDX is AWD and has a turbo 4

 

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PDT166 you said "I can't think of any Acura or VW that comes from the Factory with a Turbo AND AWD."


I gave you one of each....thats all.

They are actually very relavant as the V10 TDI is an awsome engine, makes huge torque and gets great mileage. I was going to get one, but they discontinued them here in the US before I could.

The RDX is a very similar engine to ours, direct injected and turbocharged from the factory - I know that it is new, and Snow hasnt had a kit on it most likely - but I was just informing you of the cars that had turbos and AWD from VW and Acura.