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Is the EVO IX the most powerful 4-Cylinder ever?

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Old Feb 15, 2006, 12:42 PM
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Originally Posted by evotec
This question is a bit complicated to define what a stock car is.

600 units are produced from S204
100 units from FQ-400

I guess the question is where the unit limit is.
How many Ford RS200 Evo homologation units were built? Those suckers put down 650 on a 2.1 on full boost.
Old Feb 15, 2006, 12:50 PM
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There have been some pretty powerful Porches & Lotus' (Loti?) over the years. I'd look there too.
Old Feb 15, 2006, 01:00 PM
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Originally Posted by SP00LIN
There have been some pretty powerful Porches & Lotus' (Loti?) over the years. I'd look there too.
Funny that u have got the Lotus correct but Porsche wrong

anyway if u r talking about Lotus Esprit S4 300HP?
Old Feb 15, 2006, 01:12 PM
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US STi is 300 hp 300 tq stock. But their potential sucks compared to Evos.
Old Feb 15, 2006, 01:13 PM
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IF you want to talk MOST POWERFUL, EVER, or most powerful PRODUCTION? If its ever, check out some of the race motors from Cosworth..production, NA or Turbo, th FQ400, S2K and a few others...Escort Cosworth, STi rally cars that are restricted but torque monsters...there are tons
Old Feb 15, 2006, 01:15 PM
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Lookup Group B rally cars - they had to produce X amount for the street to be able to compete if memory serves (300 maybe).
Old Feb 15, 2006, 01:20 PM
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Originally Posted by feldguy
IF you want to talk MOST POWERFUL, EVER, or most powerful PRODUCTION? If its ever, check out some of the race motors from Cosworth..production, NA or Turbo, th FQ400, S2K and a few others...Escort Cosworth, STi rally cars that are restricted but torque monsters...there are tons

Dats what i was thinking, Cosworth probably has the record
Old Feb 15, 2006, 01:28 PM
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Don't forget the early 80's BMW F1 motor too! 1500+HP from 1.5 liters!!

http://www.research-racing.de/bmwturbo.htm
Old Feb 15, 2006, 01:32 PM
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Originally Posted by fevo
Funny that u have got the Lotus correct but Porsche wrong

anyway if u r talking about Lotus Esprit S4 300HP?
actually your wrong. porsche had some of the most powerful 4 cylinder engines for years until the S2000 came around. however, the porsche engines still have 50% more torque then the S2k. look at the 968... it is a 3L inline 4 N/A pushing around 230hp/and equal torque. also, the 944 S2 was a 16V inline 4 3L with the same specs (no VVT if i rmember correctly though). last, the 944 turbo S was pushing 240ish hp and equal torque. this was in the early 90's so high HP 4 cylinders from the factory is old news... porsche has been doing it for nearly 20 years. granted the displacement is bigger then the evo engine, overall the cars are lighter (and much more aerodynamic)
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Holy SHIET... these are M-M-M-O-N-S-T-E-R (for you unreal tournament fans ) numbers... i wish my car had 4000 hp. i would use it as a daily driver.............
Old Feb 15, 2006, 01:38 PM
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if we're talking about production vehicles then i'd go with the fq400
Old Feb 15, 2006, 01:42 PM
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n/a K20A's from Honda easily put out 230-240 NA whp with bolt ons in EF/EG/EK chassis
Old Feb 15, 2006, 01:45 PM
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We are talking about stock cars here. yes the EVO has the most amount of power per liter.

the S2000 is only 11.1 ratio who said 14 is wrong. Yes the S2000 is the highest output out there on NA engines.

Honda does not believe in turbo not because of tree hugging but because they don't believe in their reliability. Honda looks for reliability before anything.
Old Feb 15, 2006, 01:50 PM
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Originally Posted by fevo
probably meaningless to find the most powerful 4 banger in stock form
as most jp manf. caps at 280HP couple yrs ago
guess group N # r more realistic

Ya they dropped that a few years back, nissan has a few engine well above that at 3.5L V-6 298hp and 4.5 L V-8 340hp
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The 240 is from a 2.2l s2k btw

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