Motor Magazine takes the Autotech's APS
Twin Turbo LS1 for a spin...
The other fantastic thing about
the APS Munro is the soundtrack. As well as
being able to hear the boost building, you also
get the sound of it in stereo. The multistage
by-pass valving sets up some amazing compressed-air
operatics with a collection of faffs, blaffs,
whoofles, whiffles, warbles and paffs from both
sides of the demonic engine bay.
I
honestly don't think I'd ever get sick of hearing
600 horses being whipped up as the throttle
is pinned to the floor. Mind you, the noise
kind of gives the game away a bit, but for all
those kids in VS Calais who can't hear the thing
because their doof-doof is shaking the suburb,
well, they're all yours and unbelievably easy
picking. I know, 'cos I toasted half a dozen
of them in one Saturday night. Poor little mites
didn't know what hit' em. Still don't.
The rest of the car is, eye-melting
yellow paint aside, pure stealth. There's a
set of big HSV brakes, but she still runs stock
wheels (it needs wider rear tyres) and standard
suspension (with obvious limitations). But for
$15,000 fitted (might want to think about a
twinplate clutch and sticky hoops) the APS Stealth
Intercooled Twin-Turbo package (it won't be
sold as a kit) absolutely transforms the basic
Commodore-based product from a reasonable sort
of thing to an absolute mind-bender that even
Einstein would have admired.
I have never been so tempted to own an LS1-powered
Commodore as I am right now. And for me, that's
really saying something.
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