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Originally Posted by Gerard C
The one Mike refers to has been modified by Crubilé Sports in France. The main thing was to have some "idle" from the chopper turbine to help when cornering and to avoid burning the brake pads too soon. Not a piece of cake, the work has been done by a former army mechanic if my memory serves. Papers? Whatzat? And noise…*
Mike, congrats to your SLR boys, as fast as a well known E Type if my reading is good. The 356 has been really fast too. Have fun.
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According to Wiki the Wastegate was intended to to offer some sort of balance of power for handling issues.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Howmet_TX
From what the article says the re-turbined cars may not have the feature.