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It's an impressively quick demo car at that, had the chance to drive it, ended up buying a cup and turbo'd that.
Wanted a relatively light motor with plenty of BHP to give it a good power to weight ratio. After owning a R5 turbo for a couple of years and fancied something more modern but with...
If your prepared to get your hands dirty and get stuck in you could save yourself a fair few quid, the expensive parts are the forged rods and pistons, turbo and ECU, here's a pic
I brought the K-tec turbo kit and did the conversion myself with some advice and guidance from the boys. So far so good, effortless power and a grin from ear to ear!!!
Traction is a problem but if you use your right foot properly you can control this, have looked at race logics traction...
225 weighs a fair bit more, and to get the equivilant power to weight ratio you got to change out a fair few parts, larger turbo, injectors, pistons, rods, remap etc. plus it didn't cost me 6K.