Can you slap a turbo in a K8?



  • right well my sc setup so far is costing €400 excluding management include that your bringing it up to 1700 plus mapping, have no idea of what figure's i'll get i'll do a write up when i get some time and get it finished, but on a good note i converted a honda head to an mx3 for a track car!



  • 1700 euros is quite expensive could get 200 bhp from an engine swap with klze power and that only costs about a grand. good luck with the t-bo. think i will save up for the swap though.



  • @63ae192559=Marco:

    Yes you can use the probe/mx6 hot pipes and headers. Requires cutting and welding the cross member/engine mount brace to let the downpipe through. Nitrous is the cheapest way! But turbo is the way to be :)

    Have a look here:
    http://mx-3.com/phpBB3/viewforum.php?f=46

    will any nitrous kit fit on?



  • @ffa617f689=barrywhite21:

    1700 euros is quite expensive could get 200 bhp from an engine swap with klze power and that only costs about a grand. good luck with the t-bo. think i will save up for the swap though.

    €1300 for a go tech ecu that will allow me to sequntially fire the injetors and a distibutorless ignition and invidual coils again with sequntial firing with launch control etc etc and a 3 bar map sensor so bye bye vaf!



  • @fe9d8ff635=Lanu:

    Does anyone have any idea what fitting a turbo does to your insurance?

    Cheers guys

    Yes my insurance company (adrian flux) want an extra £100 a year for a 50bhp (turbo) power increase on my 1.6 dohc, its worth phoning your broker for sure :)



  • I'm with Greenlight insurance, subbing to 'Highway'. They've said I can basically do whatever, turbo, nitrous etc same price :) They already know about the ZE. Which incidentally is fooked at the moment. So it looks like I may be turboing my old K8 soon!



  • nooo marco what has happend to your klze



  • Cam cap was loose, and a cam committed suicide! Tiz but a scratch…



  • I said "ooh nasty" meanwhile James said "what's with the Irish keyboard?!?"



  • mate that's terrible, never seen a cam twist the centre out like. :shock:



  • that is baaaaaad :shock: indeed



  • @33ed4c8f95=Scott_MX:

    I said "ooh nasty" meanwhile James said "what's with the Irish keyboard?!?"

    lol that's a Protools keyboard not Irish!

    @33ed4c8f95=Mechanic:

    mate that's terrible, never seen a cam twist the centre out like. Shocked

    Yes, me neither! Pretty gutting :( OH well k8 fun for a while..

    @33ed4c8f95=barrywhite21:

    that is baaaaaad Shocked indeed

    Too right, sounds like this:
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cZt-qwGgaV8



  • A bit of liquid metal on that and it'll be fine :shock:

    Seriously that's bad new mate. I've never seen a cam do that either.

    Hop you get it back up and running soon.


 

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