RogueX5

they dont have the tacky look that the majority of over done rice.. I mean... Chrome wheels do.

Lol dude, your asking about getting an exhaust tip for your ascent and getting sportivo kits for your ascent and here you are bagging out ricers.

Well lets see, a turbo gives around 6.5 to 7 KW per pound of boost. So if I take the 141KW of the car, add 10 pounds of boost that makes 206 - 211. if we then add mods like CAI, Zaust, chip etc we could get that to what maybe 240? increase boost pressure to 13 or 14 pounds and that adds another 25 or so so we are looking at 265 KW, that should easy be 200KW at the wheels :). Now where is that bloody cheque book with a spare 15 grand in it?? Oh thats right, I don't have one :(.

Now I reflect upon this post, I come to the conclusion it has absolutely no point to it but hey, it was fun dreaming ;)

Edit, I TOTALLY screwed that, its 11 KW per pound of boost LOL.

So 141 + (14*11) = 295 then add the 30 or 40 from extras, thats 335 KW, nice one :).

i heard the 2zz already had great issues with dealing with 6 pounds of boost let alone 10

Its a reasonable amount of time to get the main information of what happened when the car got *****'d.

Logically it would be running at all times but like a planes black box it would be impractical to hold an infinite amount of data about the cars operations (where would it all go). It would maybe hold the last 15 minutes of data (just a guess but u get the gist of what i'm saying) and keep on writing over the data as it goes. Or it may even just hold maximum values. ie, highest rev u've got it to, highest speed etc.

holy cow... 110 at the wheels... thats just crazy.

/me saves up $4k for the mods

The electric charge is regained everytime u put ur foot on the brake. On the prius anyway. That and normal driving from the engine itself will recharge the batteries over time.

I await the electric car where its 4 individual engines at each wheel =D