Originally Posted by
TheJesus
Dave, my real concern about the turbo conversion would be that for 5k+ or whatever it costs your not getting much it seems apart from bolt on mods run at their limit... so anymore power and it's going to cost a horrendous amount. Someone has put an Audi TT engine in a Clio with custom mounts, full remap to 290+bhp and 312lbs/ft torque and they have forged pistons and steel internals as standard... all for £4'500... oh and the 6 speed gear box. The other thing is the box, i don't know how hard a life your cars have and if they are serviced more often than usual, but most of the tuned NA cars munch boxes for fun, i'm on my second in no time at all. Other people have blown up Williams boxes new from Reno inside 6 months.
Finally the ECU, your using the standard ECU remapped to suit? I just think it all seems a bit expensive and done a bit on the cheap side for what your getting, imo there are far better engines already out there that would require custom mounts and a bit of fabrication to fit but could be done a) more cheaply b) more reliably and c) output more power with the addition of being able to mod further and more intensively.