ando

Hey, I've currently got a Citroen AX with a Saxo VTR engine fitted (bought it on the cheap for a bit of a laugh), I was wondering how much I'd have to spend on bits for a turbo charger, and what bits to get...I know there's all sorts of tubes and intercoolers

Just want a rough price just in case my local garage try and rip me off

Thanks in advance guys...

matt P1

I think carworks are the people for these, I expect it would be £2k/£3k for somthing like that depending how far you go

mozzaITA

A friend just spend 5k and over 9 months on a conversion with pug performance for a 106 gti (same engien), althouth the car is absoulutly rapid and shows a clean pair iof heals to most 4 wheeled chav wannabes it by no means has been plain sailing as the car never runs right for long and constantly was going back to the garage!

ando

Bah, don't want to make it unreliable! The thing has got a stainless steel manifold and one of those stainless steel exaust, which is too friggin' loud, anything that could make my french eggbox any faster? NOS? Leafblower in my air intake? Scooby in my lake?

I could deal with it if it ate gearboxes and clutches, but I can't really be arsed if it got unreliable!

matt P1

Just stick the 16 valver in it from the vts with cams and TBs that would see you around the 165 170 bhp mark

Should be enough for your eggbox

stilover

Buy a copy of GTI Performance, it has all the tuners in there. When I had a 106GTI years ago, I wanted more power so looked at the following:
LAD Motorsport = 160/170bhp (polish heads & change cams)

Turbo kit = various companies offer this. One of the best was based in the North East (can't remember where now)

Superchager kit = A company in Scotland offer this. Can get it up to over 250bhp. Costly though. Can cost up to £5k. I was looking at the 200bhp conversion, but can't remember the cost now.

MooseRacer

Basic turbo conversion is around 2-3k, you will need suspension and BRAKES to cope though, although as yours already has a VTR lump it should already have at least saxo 4 stud setup?

I've spent a little more than that on mine

There's also no reason why a good turbo conversion, kept to sensible limits will be unreliable - a lot of peeps use saxo turbos as their only car

ando

Yeah upgraded to VTR brakes And the suspension has been done!