Thought i would put a thread up here, as i am bored and thought you lot might like to see it, i haven't got it anymore as i couldn't be bothered with running it, but here's the build of i did
Decided a needed a cheap runabout when i bought my cossie, and found this fairly local on ebay, nice and cheap.
1.8 dturbo, picked it up and was fairly pleased with it, went ok, handled well, but look at the ride height!
After a good clean
At this point we noticed the headgasket was gone, but took no further action, yet.
Bought a set of 1.9 wheels off my mate very cheap...
and refurbed them
Looking even higher!
Then it went to have the headgasket done, this is where things got a bit mad!
My mate had a 309 gti with a Dturbo in, and had loads of bits lying around, he is also a dab hand at tuning/working on them...........
i found this lying around and started making it fit
Also lowered it, using a set of springs i had lying around, and a set of Gaz adjustables, again, very cheap off my mate
Then it came back out like this.....
That was basically the 1.8 with a new head gasket and the intercooler, about 18 psi of boost and loads of fuel, untill the KKK piece of crap turbo cried enough, so we fitted a Garret T2 off a Xantia, running 14 psi of boost and running badly, it made 104 bhp and 178 ft ib of torque (standard is 78 bhp!)
Then, after a load of abuse, finally while doing a 12 car rally, the engine gave up, blew the head gasket on all 4 cylinders and cooked itsself at the same time!
I was going to scrap it at that point, but my mates went and fetched it and took it to their house, and started work on it, top lads!
So i hunted a new engine out, finally finding a 1.9 Dturbo out of a 306 for a bargain price, After alot of fannying around, we finally got it in (it was not a sdtraight swap, as we had hoped!)
Has to run electric power steering off a 106, and modify loads of stuff for it to go in.....
Also found why my brakes had gone a bit dodgy on that fatefull 12 car
Got it back on the road, and after sorting out a few teething problems, it was going great!
Pulled very well, handled superbly and would embaress a 1.9 gti happily!
Stayed like that for ages, running 22psi of boost now, never had it rolling roaded but it was ALOT quicker than when it was at 104 bhp.
Vid on the rollers
and 2 random vids
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fMsBHwxoVKw
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_d2-95eQq0I
Then, again, it blew the headgasket, and i decided enough was enough and swapped it for my escort van with a mate, who is now redoing it with a steel headgasket, modified inlet, piper cam and other goodies, it will be back bigger and better!
Feel free to comment/take the piss!