Hi Biba,
Great thread topic!
Honestly... best thing since sliced bread! I would really never fit anything but a twin spark in another of my cars. I have run my current 2.0 T/S for 15,000 awesome miles now and am completely hooked. I run mine on 45mm Webers and 3-D mapped ignition - ultimate beauty and driveability. Low and mid range is amazing, you can put your foot flat from 1500rpm and it will pull cleanly through to 7,200rpm... not bad considering its got 198BHP! When I go to trackdays such as at the Nurburgring Nordschleife I have genuine BMW E46 M3 and Porsche 996 Carrera 2 performance. (Attached is a photo of a 996 GT3 about to get gobbled up at the Ring!)
A nord couldn't dream of the mid range, or quite frankly the maximum output of a t/s. Even with all the cleverest head work you really cannot get within 15BHP of the equivalent t/s, added to the fact that you then have nothing below 4,500rpm either - its really a no brainer choice for the ultimate fast road/trackday motor.
We have now swapped to a t/s in our race car as well - the Dutch Alfa Trofeo and French Modified Historic Saloon Championship that we race in allow such an engine, honestly its the single greatest lap time upgrade we have ever made - including moving to slicks! In race traffic its streets ahead of a Nord, the mid range punch just nails you past anything this side of IMSA 75s. We have more power all the way from 5,500 -through to 7,200rpm than we have seen as an absolute maximum output from a Nord... imagine that on track!
Anyone else as over excited as me?!?!!?
