Quote: Originally posted by S2 PTH on 12 June 2004
wud make more sense? surely it wud b faster too, coz more CCs with a turbo is better than less CCs with a turbo????
Cheaper to transplant and tunned a GTT than go though the work of 16V turboing the GTT has all the bits got turboing on the engine already
Turboing the 16V makes for more power simply because its more CC but there a lot of work turning a N/A engine into a turbo one.
I think its about £1.5k plus the cost of the car to drop a GTT inot a Clio assuming its a Mk1 (Mk2 particlarly Mk2 2 are even more difficult).
Then 2k and you would be up around 200hp I think
Turboing the 1.8 is something like 6k but Im not sure plus with a Gtt conversion you can sell the old engien to help with costs.