Turbo v Supercharged v ITB: DRAG RACE

What is the best way to tune a Mark III Mazda MX5? Well we'll find out by

drag

racing a

turbo

charged Mark III against a

supercharged

Mark II against a Mark III with individual throttle bodies and as a control we have a completely standard Mark III control also in my Watson and you're watching car wow Buy sell car wow, so let's start with the standard Mark III MX5 and we're going to find out about that car from its driver, so Nick tells me all the keys. stats on your car Hi Matt, sure, so yeah this is a mark iiii MX5, this shape was introduced in 2005, this is a 2007 car and it's worth around 5 grand, it has a 4 cylinder gas engine and 2 liter naturally aspirated, six-speed manual gearbox. and with rear wheel drive, it is quite light, weighs 1100 kilos, produces 160 horsepower and 188 newon met of torque, such modest numbers, but as we all know, these cars are fun to drive, now the car I am in sitting is another Mark iiiiii. however, its capacity has been increased to 2.5 L.

It also has new camshafts and individual throttle bodies. There are also some suspension mods, brake mods and all that sort of stuff and a very obvious wing. All this work has been done by a company called bbr and them. In fact, I've tuned these three mx-5s right here, so this car is 10 grand for the base car and then for all the work and all the modifications, including the suspension, it's an extra 10 grand on top of that, now this one in particular is With 240 horsepower and 285 Newton M of torque, it has a 5-speed manual gearbox, rear-wheel drive, differential the same as the standard car and weighs a similar 1.1 tons.

Now let's find out about the

supercharged

car. Go on Sam, give us the dates. I'm in a Mark III MX5, it has a normally aspirated 2 liter engine with a stage one supercharger upgrade kit, so it has 248 horsepower, 289 new m of torque, it's a six speed manual transmission, It weighs about 1.1 tons and is worth about 20 thousand dollars and let's finally find out about the Turbo from someone who should know a lot about these cars. Can you please introduce yourself, sir? Yes, hi Matt, it's Neil from bbr. I'm in a stage one

turbo

charged car and this one has 262 horsepower and around. 300 new m of torque, okay, so you bought these cars, they are practically the same price if you wanted to buy them, what do you think will happen during the quarter mile?

Will it go according to the power? Regarding winning the turbo, it is really difficult to say. I think it will depend on the release and the driver. All three cars will be very similar today. Well, we have

race

driver Sam in the supercharged car we have you in. the fastest car, so it's all up to me to try to get a good launch in this car that has individual throttle bodies, speaking of which, before we compete, we should definitely sound test the car and I think it should win. Let's start listening. how does the standard car sound, follow Nick now for this, oh yeah, it sounds even better when it's driving, let's listen to the supercharged car, as for the exhaust, I'm going with the supercharged car, let's listen to the turbo turbos. exhaust sound, isn't it?, isn't it?, isn't it?, isn't it?, isn't it?, that's an advantage of a supercharger, we'll get and another, a little run?

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Alternatively, you can do this at a later date by simply searching on Google, help me and we will help you change. your car, right, your Echo Auto has not connected with your phone. I'll keep trying, no, you can give up, actually, you don't need to keep trying, just get out of this, please, now let's run three, two, one, come on, oh wait. phone in front of the turbo I'm Bea, the turbo, although oh my god Sam, you just completely destroyed everyone, it's a career start, right? I thought I did well, yes I'm sure you did. I'm very good, uh no.

What happened to you friend? It's your car. I got carried away. The wheels were spinning too much. Do you want to do it again? No. I think a second try would be good considering they are your cars, they are your clutches if you will. do it again I'm happy to do it again come on Matt 3 2 1 that supercharging swamp just flies ahead of the TBO again well that was short lived oh here comes the turbo guy now though well it's the same result again the way you were in the supercharged car Sam, yeah it's a good car, I like it, but the turbo had a better start so it did a better job that time.

Neil, better job, but the wheels still spin too much, at least you beat this car this time and we were all good. in front of you, Nick, um, what was it like seeing it from your point of view, way behind us? Well, I was ahead of the turbo car for a couple of lengths after that point, although it was a total disappointment, but it's an MX5, I've got the roof. below, I'm still having fun until it rains, so what exactly happened? Well, the supercharged MX5 won, completing the standing quarter mile in 13.7 seconds, the turbocharged MX5 took 14.5 seconds, the single throttle body MX5 took 14.9 seconds, and the standard MX5 Mark II arrived.

Last time, it took me 16.2 seconds to do the quarter mile. Now we have a rolling run from 30 mph in second gear. I'm going to finish in first mile and a half, wins 3 2 1. Wow oh the response was good on this oh absolutely destroyed. Come on, that was really interesting, so the turbo car with its torque really took off. The initial acceleration was incredible, but then the force induction motors just passed, what did surprise me was how close it was between the supercharged car and the. turbocharged car, yeah, it wasn't actually that close to where I was sitting, the turbo just had a little bit of legs the whole way, uh Nick, I'll just say hello, hi, hi, that's all we need to know.

This is really something in between, like the standard car and those two forced induction cars. It's quite interesting. Now let's see if there is an even bigger gap between the supercharged car and the turbocharged car and this in the next challenge is the same. again rolling speeds up to half a mile, but this time an initial speed of 50 mph and we can do it in third gear 3 2 once, there goes the turbo. I think the difference was even clearer with the GetGo, it responds very well with its individual accelerator. bodies and the induction noise sounds incredible, but also what sounds incredible is that Caron supercharged the exhaust, because it just goes forward because it has more power and torque, the turbo just goes ahead and stays ahead and keeps increasing its lead, right?

Is that so, Neil? yeah I'm quite surprised, it seems a bit quicker than today's supercharged car, it's normally quicker, it definitely has more mid-range torque and I think today is a win, well let's really test its mid-range torque half. in a moment but before we do that hi Nick hi MK let's move on to the next challenge so same thing again half a mile 50m hour but this time you have to be on Top Gear whatever your Top Gear is fifth or sixth so let's do it . let's accelerate as fast as we can let's go 3 2 1 let's go it's okay let's accelerate individually oh T power so that was very very strange I knew the turbo would win I thought the standard car would lose but I didn't expect this to beat the supercharged car so, Was there a problem with your car?

No, I was in sixth gear at 50 mph and that was it, it took off fine. Don't know. I really thought this was going to overpower that, but yeah, okay. B can you explain why we got the result we just got because I'm confused. The supercharged car is too low in the rev range and wouldn't give much boost at about 1800 RPM, while this single throttle body car just has more torque lower down. down is that right that's it the car na would have a lot of chat yeah look there you go alright final challenge then Neil it's a brake test and we can do it from 70mph do these cars have the same brakes or are? different, they are all very similar, they all have upgraded discs and pads with stainless steel lines, so they should be pretty similar, you have big calipers, formal protest and you are better at driving than me in general, let's do the brake test, oh, wait wait.

Whoa, whoa, whoa, I'm sorry, hello Nick, hello mat, okay, let's do this brake test. We will make a full emergency stop when we reach the line, doing so from 70 mph. I'm not sure the standard car will get to 100 in the space we have. Got it anyway here comes the line oh oh hi hi Nick. It might not be stupid to break up or something. I don't know. I want to say a big thank you to bbr for lending us these CS to play with links in the description below. I hope you all enjoyed the video, if you gave it a like we put a ping comment below where you can vote which tuning method for the Mark II MX5 you prefer if you want to see other videos click on those windows and if you click that box there you can get a wow car to sell your car easily just upload some photos give a brief description then dealers from all over the country will bid for it in an online auction its easy and completely free thanks for watching