FACTORY FREAK!! 1990 GS-turbonium., buy it. Options

[KOU In3]

Well, I've been smoked by a the FFGST on highway runs in 2 of my cars to date.

I can't tell you why it feels so fast to the other drivers with so little mods. But there are a number of dyno sheets to back up its performance. I'd have to search around for the posts but it was relatively close to Phil Beer's (owned the 14B record for a while) numbers if I remember correctly.

I don't want to misquote Phil's numbers but I know Spy put down like 268 pound feet of torque if I remember correctly. On pump gas I think.

As to the car's maitenance. I think Spy will be the first to tell you exactly how hard he drives his cars. Knowing him for some time I'd say this. Spy pushes his cars hard. But he doesn't abuse them.

The difference in my book being things like the turbo swap he just concluded and the methodical changing of exhaust studs before the last dyno session. Religious oil changes and quality gas with careful tuning seem to be de rigeur with most of those Peoria guys.

If you search back over Spy's posts here, you'll see that he enjoys his cars, drives some of them daily, but takes maniacal care and pride in them.

Just my $0.02