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Rupewrecht · 05-04-2005, 04:11 PM

Victorian laws suck. to get the car engineered and therefore legal in vic, i had to go back to the standard turbo and manifold to pass emissions. if i'd kept the big turbo, i would have had to have a $3.5K emissions test...
But it got defected for too low, too loud, ecu, turbo, bov etc etc

the handling of the car is no different. but it's a lot more fun with the smaller turbo as a daily driver, as the power of the car is delivered a lot lower in the rev range - it's not all top-end as it was.

and 140kw atw is quite achievable from a relatively stock GTX engine - there's plenty of people on the boards making around that with standard GTX engines

05-04-2005, 04:11 PM	#62
Rupewrecht Administrator Join Date: Mar 2002 Location: melb.vic.au Car: AZ-1, Astina Hardtop Turbo, BJ Protege, Beetle Posts: 16,525	Victorian laws suck. to get the car engineered and therefore legal in vic, i had to go back to the standard turbo and manifold to pass emissions. if i'd kept the big turbo, i would have had to have a $3.5K emissions test... But it got defected for too low, too loud, ecu, turbo, bov etc etc the handling of the car is no different. but it's a lot more fun with the smaller turbo as a daily driver, as the power of the car is delivered a lot lower in the rev range - it's not all top-end as it was. and 140kw atw is quite achievable from a relatively stock GTX engine - there's plenty of people on the boards making around that with standard GTX engines __________________ jdmparts.rupewrecht.com Sourcing your not-quite-overnight parts from Japan WRECHT--\|--SLOWTEGE--\|--BEETLE--\|--SUBSTITUTE--\|--AZ-1 Last edited by Rupewrecht; 05-04-2005 at 04:14 PM.