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help with motor
Posted: Sat Nov 11, 2006 10:28 pm
by OFFICIALY
I would like to fit the GTti charade motor and gearbox to my mightyboy,
it is the 1litre intercooled turbo cb71'90 .
I would like to know,
what year?
what model?
what mods are needed?
anything else you think will help me.
THANK YOU ONE AND ALL DAVE.
Posted: Sun Nov 12, 2006 12:26 am
by mowog
Welcome to another WA member.
But try the search this topic has been done so often.
Posted: Sun Nov 12, 2006 1:56 pm
by Brayden
This might give you a start:
http://www.tamon.org/forum/viewtopic.php?t=1854&start=0
Short answer is the engine comes from a G100+ GTti model. Mods required include custom engine mounts, driveshafts, wiring loom splicing, engineering and mandatory brake upgrades. Apparently it is a rediculously tight fit and ideally requires recessing of the firewall in places.
The only such conversion I have seen was actually a guy from Perth, but he may have had trouble engineering it. 100kw in a vehicle that weighs almost two-thirds as much as a Swift GTi (that has 74kw) you're always going to have trouble convincing the authorities that it is safe!