my turbo conversion

[clarkson23]

hi, ive been thinking about doin this over the past few months , ive split up with my GF so thought xxxx you and went and bought a turbo car,everything is standard, standard turbo timer, didnt know they had them, interior is half leather/swede, belongs in a museum!! body work was very bad, but engine had 90,000 km on it,
engine was fine all way home no temp issues , the only thing was if you put your foot to floor is would buck back and forth, got it home, one boost pipe wasnt connected properly, to bottom intercooler, and dizzy cap and rotor have seen better days so, cambelt was done 7000 miles ago so all in all im very happy!, oh it only cost a grand!

they meet!




standard exhaust


standard turbo timer (could be wrong)






party tent came out when it rained!








well thats todays work, got to take n/a engine out and shove this one in, hopefully do it over weekend cause i need car back fast as!, thank god its all plug and play! thanks to my mate johnny who helped me all day also!

saturday:
well yesterday i got my n/a engine out, and got turbo in on passanger side mount, just have trouble gettin bolt through last rubber bit on drivers side - any tips??
also changed over fuel tank, and gear selector cables

shes free






me in the bay


on a old bonnet for easy sliding


woo


well i gave up at half 8 last night my hands are killing me, im gonna attack it again monday hopefully i can get the mount in!

cheers

[Tsia]

Great work! I've done this myself and by god it was a pain in the ar$e. We put a Rev 2 engine in a Rev 3 UK shell, so had the additional troubles of the speedo & foglights. It's all good fun though!

[clarkson23]

, its all fun mate, just gotta do a few last things tommorow , then i have boost again, ...its been awile! ill have speedo problems as mines electrical, ill just replace the mechinical sender to the dash and swop over to the early clocks, is it just the steering fogs that are affected? or do they just not come on?

[Tsia]

Truth be told, my lights are wired in differently now. I've only got one of the 'two' rear lights on each side on now, with seperate fog etc lights. My fog light warning on my dash also comes on whenever I brake

[craig]

Top effort mate!

[leary123]

Truth be told, my lights are wired in differently now. I've only got one of the 'two' rear lights on each side on now, with seperate fog etc lights. My fog light warning on my dash also comes on whenever I brake

have a look on mr2oc uk ..there is guide in the knowyour2 section about quad tail mod and how to stop the fog light coming on when pusing the brake.

i would give you the link . but appearntly i havent made enough posts on imoc yet, so it wont let me:(

[Charged]

Great to see you getting stuck in, excellent work

[clarkson23]

cheers lads
just having a bit of trouble with starting and running, so i cracked on with the rest of my jobs, the only problem i have had so far is the fog light coming on with the brake pressed, i need to swop over my n/a clocks to turbo ones aswell,

sat in now


some carbon wrapping



cant really see , but pillars are all wrapped




new rad


twin slim fans


all fitted



drilled , grooved and vented discs all round and new pads


swopped my fiberglass rain lid, for a standard one, but sprayed it up and gave it a good polish! lol




ill get there in the end!

[Peter C]

Impressive stuff. Keep up the good work.

[planted1]

Doing well on this
Ive got one of those rads with shroud and fan and i think they are a cracking buy
Lovin the tent idea as well

steve

[craig]

Good progress mate

[gaz700]

good progress mate,is that turbo timer standard?? looks to be if not very oem looking!

[Steve-O 2007]

nice, I was going to say should have changed the head gasket while it was all out to a rev3 gasket

[clarkson23]

hey, cheers for replies guys, i have a leak above fuel tank.....sigh, brackets snapped like usual ! so ive bought 10 meters of heater hose 19mm id, and goin to go under the tank tommorow with it! oh fun, and starter motor is completely goosed, moisture and rain have destroyed it! so ill replace it tommorow with one of 50 i have in the shed! hopefully its turning over by key tommorow

some of the stupid things you do after a long day! was trying to bump it other night, with no luck 5 people pushing and nothin, -- realised i hadnt put immobilser key in! spent all night rippin hair out, only to realise my stupid mistake!

[clarkson23]

Well i got it all sorted and i can't stop smiling it runs perfect boosts fine and I'm happy a's !!! 2 weeks done , i won't do it on my drive again.... Anyway cheers for readin and some more pics!!

Donor goin!



E-glo badge on, needs repairing half the m is damaged

[vtecpower]

Well i got it all sorted and i can't stop smiling it runs perfect boosts fine and I'm happy a's !!! 2 weeks done , i won't do it on my drive again.... Anyway cheers for readin and some more pics!!

Donor goin!
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arhhhhh dude i would have taken the indicators off the donar


what dump valve have you got there ?

[aj.extreme]

car in the skip, lol, made me chuckle

[shoky]

nice build mate. ive just done the same swop. got same issuies as the fog light when the brake pedal is pressed. as for not doing it again in the drive i can understand where u cumin from lol well done matey

[clarkson23]

Mate everything left on the car was knackered they had cracks I'n , and he turned up unloaded the skip picked my car up smiled and dumped it there, that's the 5th one he's picked up!

Oh dude it's apexi one

[clarkson23]

Just couple of complete pics