mrnickea
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Registered: 2nd Jul 12
Location: Stourport-on-Severn, Hereford and Worcester
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Just wandering how hard it would be to Turbo my 1.4 sport ecotec engine?
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rocksta
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Registered: 9th Feb 11
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About £3000 and a lot of hard work
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Jed D
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Registered: 15th Mar 11
Location: Durham
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its been done on the 16xe. decompression plate and i think Courtney do a cast manifold too
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Spencer627
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Registered: 1st May 12
Location: Essex
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anything is possible, could probs do the 1.6 and slightly modify it to suit a 1.4
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D0NN3R
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Registered: 1st Mar 11
Location: Dunholme, Lincolnshire
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there was one on ebay abit ago and it only sold for a grand
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Generation
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Registered: 7th Jul 09
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Most people give up when they realise it costs more than £20
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ktz28
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Registered: 4th May 11
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Pretty sure vxr corsa turbos bolt on decomp plate remap prob injectors n load of pipe work tbh prob better just doin a conversion
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mrnickea
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Registered: 2nd Jul 12
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So it be easier to just drop a 1.6 turbo engine out of a vxr lol
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Jed D
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quote:
Originally posted by D0NN3R
there was one on ebay abit ago and it only sold for a grand
red pre sport?
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D0NN3R
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Registered: 1st Mar 11
Location: Dunholme, Lincolnshire
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it was red but it was post 97
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Jed D
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ah rite, there was a pre 97 x16xe/x14xe turbo up our way a good few month back, was a bit of a pig close up but sounded the part. Mantzel inlet, Courtney mani, pre bumpers...
not sure what turbo it had on though
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AshGSi
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The turbo & manifold off a corsa vxr bolt on fairly easily, just have to grind off the 2 end lugs/bolt holes from the manifold. Then you need downpipe and exhaust, intercooler and pipework, oil lines, bigger injectors, decompression plate, a stand alone ecu and somebody to map it correctly.
Your looking at about £3k for this set up if you can do all the work yourself minus the map, and tbh, its not worth it as you will only be able to run around 6psi of bost before the standard pistons shit themselves and melt, even with the decompression plate.
If you want a turbo'd corsa just do the easy thing and drop a c20let in there. Easily do-able with a decent spec engine and a renewal of belts and gaskets for under 2k
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john_c20xe
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Registered: 10th Feb 08
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im pretty sure you cant map a standard ecu to run boost, you can use a sigcon mf2 5th injectorcontroller
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john_redtop
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Registered: 31st Dec 08
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quote:
Originally posted by Jed D
ah rite, there was a pre 97 x16xe/x14xe turbo up our way a good few month back, was a bit of a pig close up but sounded the part. Mantzel inlet, Courtney mani, pre bumpers...
not sure what turbo it had on though
Was peggsies that wasn't a bad car head gasket had went
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