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You will probably know it as the V8 Soarer.

beautiful Soarer, congrats! quick question, how does it handle with the airbag suspension, - does yours have the TEMS suspension? as I am planning to get a Soarer and can't decide which model!

You're just bitter hehe seriously though, after I sell my current RX-7, I don't think I'll have another rotary street car ... race definitely, but not for the street

www.irfanview.com Irfanview does a nice job of this, besides being a very good viewer. And it's free

Is anyone familiar with the AWD system of the Aristo Zi-FOUR? 1UZ-FE with AWD and twin turbos sounds like the recipe for a perfect street car to me .... what are the odds of being able to fit the AWD to a Celsior? (or Soarer for that matter)

"best" is a matter of opinion! I'd go for a peripheral ported 12A rotary myself :-)

Exactly, you only need bigger injectors and ECU change if using a dry nitrous shot, which you shouldn't do anyway. A wet system, or better yet a multi-port wet system, will have its own fuel supply, and you needn't change anything else except for the ignition retard.

Passat was available as AWD, I doubt you'd have to cut the floor. Use the rear drive bits from a 4motion Passat, and the rest of the driveline from a 1UZ car. Should be able to move the engine back somewhat from stock. I think weight distribution would be no worse than stock.

It's 3.92 according to intellexual.net.

This seems like a good place to ask you - you say in the original article that "low mount turbos will not allow you to lower your ride." From the photos though it didn't seem that they projected all that far beneath the car. How much ground clearance do you actually lose with the low-mounts?

Beautiful, nice find!

The motorcycle version of VTEC (on the 800 Interceptor) does exactly what you describe.

There was an article on the Active package in HPI mag about a year ago. According to that the Active is by far and away the best.

Something like this would work: http://www.msdignition.com/tc_7.htm but I think it only works with MSD ignitions? not quite sure how you'd go about it with the stock ignition. This is something I haven't looked into that much yet.

Make sure you have a way to retard the ignition by a couple degrees when the juice hits.

That 17% drivetrain loss, that's through the stock auto trans?

If it's freshly built the assembly lube will take a while to burn off, maybe that's all it is?

I have no numbers for you but I would like to say that turbos are far from "free" power. The extremely high exhaust back pressure ahead of the turbine (usually higher than the boost pressure) combined with the requirement for relatively low-overlap cams that this causes, costs a lot of power...

That's some good stuff. Would headers like that fit an LS400?

The two I posted should be all you need for those calculations. The first one I got from www.mayfco.com , click your way to the analysis page, very good stuff there.