A little something for a Sunday.

Does anyone know how well the turbo scooby engine will run without a turbo? I have this spare in my garage

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and one of these on my driveway



Just wondering whether to keep the engine for a spare for my scooby, fit it to the camper, or sell it and buy a sport engine for the camper.

Cheers, Rich.

 

Do it properly and put it in the camper WITH a turbo and intercooler

 

Yeah make the camper a sleeper, no pun intended.

 

the compression on the engine is for a turbo to be used, a std sport engine would have more power than a turbo 2.0L without the turbo
as Gaz says, Do it right, with a turbo & intercooler.

A bit of help here http://www.rjes.com/

Bez

 

Don't bother with an intercooler though their is no way of getting good airflow to it to get good cooling. Go for a charge cooler instead.

 

You will be able to get the turbo parts needed from a breaker for peanuts if its all standard parts.

 

I have read you can run low compression engines without a turbo, it's whether or not it's healthy on the flat 4 block. If a sport engine is peanuts then this may be the way to go as i'll have some cash to put towards some goodies for rj engineering.

 

Deffo fit the turbo engine into the camper you just need to work out the mounting of the intercooler. You could mount radiator fans to it so it would get airflow where ever you mounted it.

 

Cash flow limits fitting a turbo as I'd have to source one. Although it would be nice! The sport engine will be an improvement over the 50 bhp one in there now!!

 

The turbo engine will run fine as a na. Dont know about it being less powerfull than a sport tho because its not just compression that gives u power is it. Gud luk

 

It will run but itll be gutless, like its constantly got turbo lag, if you was to go to the effort of fitting the ej20lump then either fit the sti one with a turbo or fit a standard 1.8-2.0 nasp

 

Lol yeah they are guttless lyk. But no more guttless than the sohc 2litre of the sport

 

You could pick up a turbo for less than a 100 quid. You deffo regret not fitting it

 

ive got a tdo4 somewhere u can have for free if u want rich. Was working fine when i removed it, ul hav 2 pay the postage lyk