27-04-2012, 10:32 PM
Joe Wrote:Niall Wrote:Right some of you might have heard me talking about this and I'm getting very serious about it but am in need of help with the planning.
After a chat with Ruan, he seems to reckon I can get about 10-12psi on standard internals. If I was to go higher, I would need new internals which would be very costly as no one makes pistons and rods for the 1.8 so would have to be custom made!
What turbo would I be looking at using? I'm trying to work out at the moment if it's worth doing this. Obviously it's not going to be cheap so is the cost going to be worth the potentially small gain in power?
Basically I just put this thread up as a discussion and to hear people's views and more professional opinions (darren, Ruan.....) because I want to get as much info as possible before diving in and starting to buy parts.
why not get a 406 sri engine and bolt it in?
2 reasons spring to mind, 1 is that its boring and been done before and the other is that its a pretty shit 8v engine!
