The following is from a reply of mine on another thread in this forum:
I've had a few days to flog my car a bit and do some more tuning on it. The 2v was worth it. I thought I might have a want for the 4v recalling my experiences driving a 00' R but no.. I'm happy. The R was more powerful (at the top) but it didn't have the all around feel that this motor gives me. It's the little things really I guess. It's made 5th gear worth having. I used to downshift to 4th to pass... not anymore. No need. To get an idea of the difference from my 2v 4.6 to my 2v 5.4 (5.5 hehe) it's like all the gears were dropped by 1... so 5th gear feels like 4th used to, 4th feels like 3rd, and so on. The R had a 6 speed so its 6th was like my 5th and I know I'd pull that thing back to 4th or 5th gear to do any freeway passing. 6th gear was just not strong enough until I was going way too fast.
This is every bit better than a blower ever would have been for me. Even roots blowers need to be doing 2000rpm to build much boost and they have to be at WOT to enjoy the boost... I have enough tq at 1500rpm to pass while staying in 5th gear with only maybe 30-40% throttle.
I'm definitely looking into my transmission options now... the 5 speed isn't doing the trick with the huge jump from 4th to 5th.
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