Right i know many moons ago there was the turbo technics kit floating about however thats a big rarity these days so i was wondering what is the easiest(and cheapest) way to get a turbo bolted onto my xr3i engine(mfi)?

Cheers, Harry

 

bolt an rs turbo engine in

 

but thats the easy and boring way. I wanna try something a bit more unique

 

the easiest and cheapest way is as mentioned as above, turbo lump,

a turbo technics kit if any about would be quite a bit of money anyway, and adding a turbo your n/a engine compression ratio would be limited to how much boost u can run and stress your bottom end,

also holes for turbo oil feed/drain would have to be put into your block, along with ignition advance for a turbo engine, would just be more hassle

once u get turbo power, u will just want to keep wanting to get more out of it, hence using, a proven easy to tune rs turbo engine in the first place

 

unfortunately TT kits for the XR3i are rare as rocking horse shit. Especially complete ones. Usually you will just find bits here and bits there.

Plust the kits runs off a carb and doesn't use injection,

even with the kit your looking at about 3 grand to fit it. Not cheap considering you could pick up a RST engine, loom and all the ancilleries you need for about Ł800-Ł1000

 

easy and boring = cheap, which is what your after

 

just do as above, rs turbo engine conversion

i carried out conversion on my 1.3 pop, and glad i did. iv spent about 2500 so far on the engine work, but that was 550 for engine and loom and most ancillaries, the rest of the cost went on stuff i wanted to buy brand new instead of 2nd hand like fuel tank and pump and pipes and cooler and rad..........

basically i rekon i could have had evrythin i needed to get mine running turbo power for about 700 quid, a lot cheaper than a TT kit would b, plus A LOT easier to fit