Whoah thats a lot of thread there. All I can say is Rob, have some faith. Not everyone wants to sell their car in two years time and buy another one. *ANy* engine can be turbocharged its not exactly a leap into the unknown. Its just that like any forced induction mods, you need to go about it the right way, you cant just bolt on a turbo and hope for the best it doesnt work like that. My engine blew up because I had set the nitrous programming and ignition timing wrong.
It will be plenty fast enough young Padawan, IMHO quicker than anything else Im ever likely to see on the mean streets of Essex, and there is some fast machinery round these parts. Standard output will be around 240bhp, and that is a rolling road tuned and tested figure at around 15psi boost. You can speculate all you want but you really need to go out in it to see whats what. It is quite simply, SOLID, the conversion is solid, the running of the car is solid, the whole thing is solid. Not one single detail has been left out of this conversion I can promise you, it is totally reliable under all conditions and will not overheat however much you push it. I reckon 0-60 will be somewhere in the 5s maybe 4s (traction will be the problem on a 0-60 run), 0-100 will be a better test, it feels like 12s or thereabouts - bear in mind I know what Im talking about - Im used to my Clio as it was - 1/4 miling in 14.48 seconds at 96mph. Quarter mile time I reckon12/13 seconds, well have to see. Definitely wont be languishing in the 14s this season, and seeing as Im stripping it out even further I should be packing around 250bhp/ton + depending on how much I strip out. About the same as a WRC car in other words, and a hell of a lot more than 99% of cars on the road.
