got asked to stick some details up here about the car...
pics are a bit hit and miss sorry!!
it's my lads car, his first, had it for a good few months and then decided he wanted a bit more oomph from it. i said to him about a 225/boosted 197 conversion but he wanted to ideally keep the 1.6 k4m engine and see what he could get out of it, chris had already mapped it and worked out the stock ecu would be fine seeing boost so it began.
another thing that got him to keep the standard engine was the amount of people who said it couldn't be done, even one who kept saying 'it won't hold boost' but would never explain exactly what he meant so he's kind of responsible for the first stock boosted conversion. at first we were going to use bits from a laguna turbo i had knocking round, exhaust manifold on the f4r and k4m are a close match to say the least. he then got a pay rise and wanted as much custom as possible.
spec at the mo is completely stock engine, rods are scarily thin!! custom tubular exhaust manifold, td04 14t megane turbo, stock ecu, 330cc injectors, laguna turbo map sensor, 2 1/2" down pipe to custom 2 1/2" system with single back box, 2" boost pipework, small cheap ebay intercooler etc...
car was done at first on a 2" down pipe back system and ended up at 200bhp, few months later rest was changed, back on the rollers and map tweak it gave 220bhp.
was on standard gearbox at first, ratios and final drive are awful!!! looked at various options but decided on a megane dci 5 speed box, works well with it but won't pull right through in 5th as it's geared for something stupid like 180mph.
next planned mods are supertech oversized valves, forged rods, forged pistons, hopefully G25-550 turbo and a few other bits to get it comfortably past 300bhp.
pics are a bit hit and miss sorry!!
it's my lads car, his first, had it for a good few months and then decided he wanted a bit more oomph from it. i said to him about a 225/boosted 197 conversion but he wanted to ideally keep the 1.6 k4m engine and see what he could get out of it, chris had already mapped it and worked out the stock ecu would be fine seeing boost so it began.
another thing that got him to keep the standard engine was the amount of people who said it couldn't be done, even one who kept saying 'it won't hold boost' but would never explain exactly what he meant so he's kind of responsible for the first stock boosted conversion. at first we were going to use bits from a laguna turbo i had knocking round, exhaust manifold on the f4r and k4m are a close match to say the least. he then got a pay rise and wanted as much custom as possible.
spec at the mo is completely stock engine, rods are scarily thin!! custom tubular exhaust manifold, td04 14t megane turbo, stock ecu, 330cc injectors, laguna turbo map sensor, 2 1/2" down pipe to custom 2 1/2" system with single back box, 2" boost pipework, small cheap ebay intercooler etc...
car was done at first on a 2" down pipe back system and ended up at 200bhp, few months later rest was changed, back on the rollers and map tweak it gave 220bhp.
was on standard gearbox at first, ratios and final drive are awful!!! looked at various options but decided on a megane dci 5 speed box, works well with it but won't pull right through in 5th as it's geared for something stupid like 180mph.
next planned mods are supertech oversized valves, forged rods, forged pistons, hopefully G25-550 turbo and a few other bits to get it comfortably past 300bhp.
