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Originally Posted by Lmaiuri
SMH, VERY few enthusiasts have the amount of disposable income to build a LARGE turbo kit the right way. I.E. fabrication, transmission building, tuning, etc. There are about 5 guys on Golf MK6 that have taken the time and effort and coin to make a functional (semi) 500+whp GTI. Even then, 1-2 of them are actually reliable and street-able. A 600 whp 135i would be retarded. BRB gears 1-3 being useless. When it's all said and done and you've got a barely streetable drag monster that will probably get you locked up for speeding; you could have had a nice down payment on a FBO 996/997 with 550+ usable awhp. Pioneering anything BT where you have to worry about the block, transmission, fueling, and other components is a headache.
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The upkeep on a bolt on or K24 996/7.1 is going to be every bit as hellacious and wallet-draining as a big single N54. That's hardly a value proposition, it's a near supercar that requires a near supercar budget to keep on the road.
You are def correct a 600WHP 135 would be silly and impractical in the first few gears. For how many 600 wheel cars is that not the case? A few with AWD but that's about it - and most of those will have built transfer cases. EVOs, STi's, their TCs are made of glass. In relative terms I can't think of many other platforms that provide this type of power potential, for this type of cost, with sacrificing very little in the way of creature comforts.
At this point 600WHP on an N54 is not even close to "pioneering" anything. The motor will make that all day long, with less backpressure, less in-cylinder pressure, and lower EGTS than a 520 wheel hybrid stock frame set up.
800 wheel is pushing boundaries. 600 wheel is a 58mm and about $8K.