6A12 Mivec 2ltr V6 Performance

[Johny]

it would also be cool to have high/low gear ratio's in a legnum lol

[Turbo_Steve]

Yep you don't expect to drive a performance car and have outstanding economy

Actually, I do. I've had quite a lot of performance cars, with power outputs varying for 160bhp (a Mk1 MR2) all the way up to a 500+bhp 300ZX, and a selection of Scoobs, an Evo, a GTiR.......

The Legnum has the worst fuel economy of all of them. To the extent that buying a copy of EvoScan and a cable seems a sensible economy for me, just to actually check things are working as they should be.
The setup on the VR4 is just epic: they appear to have tried to make it feel like a 4.0L, with light pressure turbos and a super-flat torque curve.

Unfortunately, it's got the fuel economy of a big old-style yank V8 on carbs!

The most obvious fix for a VR4 is to change the final drive to get much taller gearing, allowing a higher speed cruise. Unfortunately, it's also ruining the car into the bargain: taking away from what it's good at.

A 6th ratio, with really tall gearing, would be fantastic...and is never going to happen.

So I come back to looking at the maps and the turbos, and thinking that the car spends most of it's life cruising just sliiiightly on boost...when there is no reason.

[fuel]

I noticed a great improvement of fuel economy when I went from the factory TC05 to a TC06 on my Eterna, more so when cruising on the highway at 3000rpm or so as the turbo wasn't always spooled up like the TC05 was at those revs.

[bradc]

It would be the same in a VR-4 with TD04s. I've had my bov make noise at 1800rpm before

[VR4WGN]

well the engine has arrived in Palmy yay.. now i gotta finish your car Brad so i can strt on mine... im hoping to do a deal for a vr4 upgrade conversion innexchange for the paintjob tho.. then shes all go and ill ahve it done for the 4's and rotarys entry...