Twingo Adey's Twingo GT (F4R+T 2.0ltr engine swap)

[Turbell]

@Duncan Grier .....that's my guess so feck off, I ain't sharing my pwizes with you when I win....

 

[Duncan Grier]

Ok will take 259.......with a glass of wine

 

[waveydave]

We are ready (I think)

Replaced some fuel hose and neatened a few parts up this morning. Cant find any leaks, or strong smells of petrol on that so all seems good. I did have a hissing noise from the map sensor, initially I though it just needed holding down tighter so I used a piece of scrap to make a PMT clamp to hold it but actually found a small crack in the sensor itself. Luckily I had a few kicking about so swapped it out. Seems less jerky but I've not put many miles on it. Gearbox seems fine so far and is longer, 70mph now comes in at around 2750rpm so easy cruising on the motorways. Depending on the rev limit it might just clip 60 in 2nd gear. I don't think I will test the 160+mph top speed though.

Camber was miles out, positive on one side so I've eyeballed it to match a little negative each side, I need a new tyre soon anyway so when I go get one sorted ill have it all realigned.

I will carry on putting the miles on it to check everything over in the next few days but hopefully I can relax and tidy the garage up a little. Roll on Tuesdays mapping session with Chris at EFI Parts. Hopefully we don't find any weak spots. If it comes away in one piece and with me not calling the RAC I will be very surprised.

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how did you get on today at efi mate?

 

[Moggy]

270 bhp / 300 torques

Ahhheeeemmmmmmm

 

[Duncan Grier]

So chop chop @Adey what are the scores on the door?

 

[Adey]

I've created a Monster!

Wow what a day, a long day. The car, pretty much untested was given a 140mile run up to Runcorn to see Chris @ EFI Parts. It got there so that was a decent start. After some calibration writing and building from the wizard we started to do some runs but things weren't behaving as they should. Boost control wasn't playing ball and over shooting to mega numbers when not wanted and other running low, after lots of wasted time it was pin pointed to a dodgy boost control valve. Luckily I had a spare so once that was swapped in things progressed. The ecu is a bit of a crap for mapping as it take 6/7min to upload each change that's made unlike the Meg ecu which can be done in 40 seconds. Any way scoff did his magic wizard stuff and the numbers kept coming. Initially I went in with hopes of 250bhp/250lbft and I've come away with a bonkers 277.8bhp and 300.6lbft (280/300) and in this car with the long gearbox its absolutely batshit. It comes up on things so quickly it surprised me a fair bit, it will light the tires at 30mph with little issue too. I've only played with one car and that was a 2020 plated s4, he initially jumped me but once 5th came it just pulled along side it with relative ease, when i saw 135mph on the dash i shit a brick and stomped on the brakes. Its actually silly and needs a shorter box. Said driver wouldn't play again and wouldn't even make eye contact either

I'm absolutely amazed it held together, the exhaust wasn't a restriction and how completely nuts it is.

I didn't get much in the way of pics or vids as I spent more time cowering from the expected explosion....

 

[Big Steve - Raider]

Simply Bloody Amazing.... it’s such a credit to you for creating a Golf R eating Monster for the price of one monthly payment to the finance company by all their owners...!

Can’t wait to see a video of it in progress..

 

[Steve Swan]

I didn't play the numbers game as I don't like tempting fate!! Great set of numbers, best get some spare driveshafts in stock!! Mind you the lighter weight will make it less likely to break bits. The ultimate Q car?????

 

[Sparkysparks]

Mental would be the word. Well done. This car is the pinnacle of how I like to build them. Fast as poss for as cheap as poss

 

[j_carter]

My guess is 258.....am I too late

We could be rappers with these sick rhythms

Adey. I take my hat off to you. That is absolutely mental. You must be over the moon. Well done, I am not jealous at all...

 

[Turbell]

Reet result, chuffed as mint balls for you.
Hard work has paid off, you should be proud of what you've achieved with so little.
Love it!

 

[DaveL485]

Well, it only held together....madness! Well done mate.

 

[Adey]

So I got a little footage earlier for you all, nothing worth while though so once the tracking is done and I've sorted a few niggles I will get some more. I want to do a run on the same stretch as my old acceleration video from when it was still a 1149cc.

Here's some general waffle and bollox about it.



I've also had a quick tally up of the cost....... A huge chunk of which was mapping. Id also like to thank everyone who has helped with sending spares and cheap parts my way to build it as without them it wouldn't of gone together so quick or as cheaply, So Thank you . I think I've also mentioned previously that I bagged the engine for a bargain, again without that you can add an easy 1k to the build cost.

So spend to date (including mapping) £1158.23 take away everything I've sold to offset it at £671

Total build/conversion cost of £487.23

Hope you have enjoyed the ride, I certainly haven't lol... lies its been fun. Spending hours upon hours on the web researching over the last few months and putting it together have been entertaining and have really helped keep me sane whilst off work. Pikey Mod Tuning ftw

Thanks for reading I will keep it going as there's a fair bit I want and need to do to it still to try and make use of the power it now has

 

[Steve Swan]

£1.75 per Horsepower. That is probably the most impressive figure about this project.

 

[andybond]

Crazy low amount for the conversion.

 

[Adey]

Crazy low amount for the conversion.

Indeed, ive been very lucky with a lot of it

 

[Mark_L]

May have to look into this once I've swapped the engine from the clio, I have most of the bits already.

I'm guessing it's a lot more work to use the meg box?

 

[DaveL485]

I just bought a Modus with the 1.2 Turbo GT engine... next conversion Adey?

 

[Adey]

May have to look into this once I've swapped the engine from the clio, I have most of the bits already.

I'm guessing it's a lot more work to use the meg box?

Would require, at a guess chassis and subframe mods and custom shafts

 

[yotomeczek]

Great job and numbers
How is the weight of Twingo with f4rt?