Buyer beware of the Sportec RS600

[ttboost]

This post isn't meant to slam anyone, just posting my opinion and the facts as I know them. Just like many of you, I have a friend here that took great strides to buy that car, from the auction, way back when. He was told flat out that there is no way that car can be legally driven on any US roads, period. End of that conversation. Marc bought it, owned it for a while, and sold it to a guy here in CT. New CT owner claims to have gotten a CT title, but I'm dubious. We have a tough state when it comes to registration and emissions. I'll leave it at that.
I got to see the car at a EPL dyno day. MY first impression was that the paint and interior were not that nice. Maybe just needed a good detail..not sure, didn't study it, was still mesmerized by the whole 6 speed thing.
Owner was debating whether to put it on the dyno. He ended up on the dyno, but I had left. I got the report though, hence my comments in the "for sale" thread, that was deleted. Car barely made 450whp @ 22psi. then made 10-15whp less every pull after with less and less boost and some heatsoak.

My opinion back then was based on these facts. For a car with so much hoopla attached to it, to have these results? The excuse being that it is only running 11-12psi of boost? Why? Why would a $150k super sedan with a built motor and all the best parts only be running 11-12lbs of boost? heatsoak? After a few runs with bigger IC's? I can buy an S4 on Autotrader right now, for $10k, that would whip this car.

Anyway, as I have said before, the manual conversion alone can account for that HP number on that dyno. On EPL's Mustang dyno, my car made 318awhp, With EPL flash it made 400awhp. With fully gutted DP's and 01E (with SAME tune), we were at 475ish (back when it was cool out), but we are still tuning. You guys figure out how much the 01E and DP's are worth. That car should be making at least 600whp IMO....Good luck to whoever bought the car, if in fact it IS what everyone says it is, there is a LOT of potential...

[UrS6]

This post isn't meant to slam anyone, just posting my opinion and the facts as I know them. Just like many of you, I have a friend here that took great strides to buy that car, from the auction, way back when. He was told flat out that there is no way that car can be legally driven on any US roads, period. End of that conversation. Marc bought it, owned it for a while, and sold it to a guy here in CT. New CT owner claims to have gotten a CT title, but I'm dubious. We have a tough state when it comes to registration and emissions. I'll leave it at that.
I got to see the car at a EPL dyno day. MY first impression was that the paint and interior were not that nice. Maybe just needed a good detail..not sure, didn't study it, was still mesmerized by the whole 6 speed thing.
Owner was debating whether to put it on the dyno. He ended up on the dyno, but I had left. I got the report though, hence my comments in the "for sale" thread, that was deleted. Car barely made 450whp @ 22psi. then made 10-15whp less every pull after with less and less boost and some heatsoak.

My opinion back then was based on these facts. For a car with so much hoopla attached to it, to have these results? The excuse being that it is only running 11-12psi of boost? Why? Why would a $150k super sedan with a built motor and all the best parts only be running 11-12lbs of boost? heatsoak? After a few runs with bigger IC's? I can buy an S4 on Autotrader right now, for $10k, that would whip this car.

Anyway, as I have said before, the manual conversion alone can account for that HP number on that dyno. On EPL's Mustang dyno, my car made 318awhp, With EPL flash it made 400awhp. With fully gutted DP's and 01E (with SAME tune), we were at 475ish (back when it was cool out), but we are still tuning. You guys figure out how much the 01E and DP's are worth. That car should be making at least 600whp IMO....Good luck to whoever bought the car, if in fact it IS what everyone says it is, there is a LOT of potential...

Getting a title is easy and has been done at least 4 times in the US. The car was not imported properly and is technically not legal. Doubtful that it would ever get confiscated at this point but there is no FMVSS sticker so if you get in an accident you are screwed.

[DHall1]

Sounds like first hand experience here. I think if you want to make free for sale ads and you make the grand claims about how nice something is....when other members have a different opinion you will have long road to travel. Several people on this forum have had first hand experience with this car. If you wish to post up free advertising on any public forum expect feedback. If you wish not to deal with the feedback then advertise on autotrader.com. IMHO make all the claims you wish over there.

This post isn't meant to slam anyone, just posting my opinion and the facts as I know them. Just like many of you, I have a friend here that took great strides to buy that car, from the auction, way back when. He was told flat out that there is no way that car can be legally driven on any US roads, period. End of that conversation. Marc bought it, owned it for a while, and sold it to a guy here in CT. New CT owner claims to have gotten a CT title, but I'm dubious. We have a tough state when it comes to registration and emissions. I'll leave it at that.
I got to see the car at a EPL dyno day. MY first impression was that the paint and interior were not that nice. Maybe just needed a good detail..not sure, didn't study it, was still mesmerized by the whole 6 speed thing.
Owner was debating whether to put it on the dyno. He ended up on the dyno, but I had left. I got the report though, hence my comments in the "for sale" thread, that was deleted. Car barely made 450whp @ 22psi. then made 10-15whp less every pull after with less and less boost and some heatsoak.

My opinion back then was based on these facts. For a car with so much hoopla attached to it, to have these results? The excuse being that it is only running 11-12psi of boost? Why? Why would a $150k super sedan with a built motor and all the best parts only be running 11-12lbs of boost? heatsoak? After a few runs with bigger IC's? I can buy an S4 on Autotrader right now, for $10k, that would whip this car.

Anyway, as I have said before, the manual conversion alone can account for that HP number on that dyno. On EPL's Mustang dyno, my car made 318awhp, With EPL flash it made 400awhp. With fully gutted DP's and 01E (with SAME tune), we were at 475ish (back when it was cool out), but we are still tuning. You guys figure out how much the 01E and DP's are worth. That car should be making at least 600whp IMO....Good luck to whoever bought the car, if in fact it IS what everyone says it is, there is a LOT of potential...