turbo

[DaddyDave]

Could I take a turbo from another car and fit it into my 323f 1.5 16 valve. If so which car could I take the turbo out of???

 

[skiman_1]

You could put a turbo into basically any car, problem is, some cars will take to a turbo better than others, but then you have compression issues etc....not worth it if u ask me,if u want a turbo car, u may aswell jus sell your car and buy a turbo'd one...its a lot easier..

 

[DaddyDave]

Is there no-one here that knows about turbo conversions?

 

[DaddyDave]

Cheers. So its more hassel than its worth

 

[skiman_1]

If you could do all the work yourself then your elected, but otherwise i wouldnt bother.

 

[pablo]

big dosh mate - turbo is the least of your worries, plumbing, manifolds, intercooler and the biggie:

custom ecu and mapping.

££££££

go buy a turbo and be done with it.,

 

[RComms]

am i missing something... or was this not a thread at the beginning of the week, where the discussion became what turbo cars can i get for 4K? :lol:

Go look for a Fiat coupe

 

[skiman_1]

Or an Escort RS Turbo, you'd get a mint one for £4,000 - You could have my mercury grey one for £4,000 its got 55,000 miles on it, 89 car, with stage 1 chip and full mongoose exhaust.

 

[RMS_CLK]

Under £1000 no sweat! Done it all myself in my driveway - dont even have a garage.

 

[brendy]

what is she? 2.0 8v 115 (plus) turbo?
she must sit close to the rad.

 

[RMS_CLK]

what is she? 2.0 8v 115 (plus) turbo?
she must sit close to the rad.

Was a real headache - Cosworth intercooler then the radiator + fan and the turbo had to sit out from the block as the actuator sat at the back of the turbo. Nightmare when I tried planning how to do it. I finally threw the head up and just got stuck in one day and done it. All came together nicely in the end.

 

[brendy]

intercooler out front i take it?
what management have you went for? emerald,dastek or motec?

 

[RMS_CLK]

Management? lol. It was a DFR engineering type management. (Do f***ing rightly) Basically I used the purply coloured multi-hole redtop injectors + upped the fuel pressure to around 3.5 bar. I had a cold start injector rigged up to an adjustible boost pressure switch to supply the rest. My good old state of the art motronic still ran the ignition which i would have eventually replaced with a micro dynamics ems5.

 

[brendy]

3.5? whack her up to just shy of 4! max duty -1!! who needs petrol anyway.

 

[RMS_CLK]

Bosch Injectors can loose control @ 4 bar + she idle'd bad enough @ 3.5. Lucas Injectors can take a little more ive heard, but that would have caused 2wice the hastle. Tell you what makes great reading - Forced Induction Performance Tuning by Graham Bell. Its the definitive guide to turbo charging and goes into great depth about every aspect of it. If I'd have bought this before doing the conversion, there are things I would have done differently.

 

[brendy]

think theres bits of that book on t'internet, have definately read some of it before...was like reading ok magazine tho, only there for any of the pictures, couldnt make my brain sit and read more than 2 lines at a time.

 

[RMS_CLK]

Yeah you need 100% concentration to take any of it in. Tell you what though. Would love to have that Graham Bell guy about when im doing a bit of tuning. He really knows what he's talking about.

 

[chrisdromore]

am i missing something... or was this not a thread at the beginning of the week, where the discussion became what turbo cars can i get for 4K? :lol:

Go look for a Fiat coupe

and i know of one which may be for sale !