fiestakidda
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Registered: 23rd Oct 02
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Does anyone know where i could possibly pick one of these up from?
And what's a good price to be paying for one?
If not a Turbo'd Calibra engine? where from??
Anyone?
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MC Kustoms
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Registered: 6th Aug 02
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look on migweb loads on there
redtop around £400
turbo around £1000
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Colin
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Registered: 4th Apr 02
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Try to buy an old Astra GTE 16v or something for about 500notes take what you need, then sell, bin the rest
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Kerry
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wot colin says
i was after a cally turbo engine and cheapest i saw was £800
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fiestakidda
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Don't know what to go for, cally turbo or just straight forward red top. It's a 1.6 8v gte nova at the min and i wanna feel the real upgrade in power. The 1.6 is running 120bhp at the min so feeling turbo the only way.
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StuartVRS
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THe other thing to consider is the mileage on a turbo engine and what state the turbo will be in. HOw do you know it hasnt been ragged to death. If you go the turbo route, make sure you can easily afford it and have money to spare cause if it does go wrong, it wont be cheap to fix.
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Daimo B
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quote:
Originally posted by fiestakidda
Don't know what to go for, cally turbo or just straight forward red top. It's a 1.6 8v gte nova at the min and i wanna feel the real upgrade in power. The 1.6 is running 120bhp at the min so feeling turbo the only way.
Redtop engine conversion = £1500
Redtop Turbo + F28 = £1500 alone. In total, its a £4000+ conversion.
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Jason
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Registered: 5th Aug 03
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i was offered a full calibra turbo car/engine for 600 pity its no use 2 me 
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AK
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Registered: 5th Jul 00
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and much less tractable, useable, power
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J4LDO
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Registered: 19th Feb 03
Location: glasgow ish
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agree there adam, waiting for it 2 come on boost is pants, it might be quicker than my corsa but it dont have the throttle responce
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wainey
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Registered: 20th Oct 02
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my 5 was bad enough for traction, spun in 1st,2nd,3rd and sometimes into 4th in the dry when ragging it, just no good, unless u gradually get the power down its a waste of time, but i had very little lag and it came on full boost quite quick!
im goin for the redtop conversion, 
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Daimo B
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quote:
Originally posted by Adam Kindness
and much less tractable, useable, power
Totally agree with this. Turbo is faster yes, but redtop is so much fun
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AK
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Registered: 5th Jul 00
Location: Aberdeen City
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you had your's on the rollers yet daimo?
I really want to check mine againt other..... i really think i may have had 'fast road' cams in mine
seems to be alot more oooooommph higher up the revs than std plots
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Daimo B
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Mine seems to really pickup in the higher revs though, think its just the engines
Not had it on the rollers yet. The induction kit wrks well but im not sure if its being starved a bit of air lower down and it doesn't pickup as quick. Gonna remove the feed to see it makes a difference.
Hoping for 160bhp though.
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AK
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Registered: 5th Jul 00
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do you want a powercap?
my peak was up at 7000rpm or so.... Tims was about 4500 or so..... completly diff plots
Vibrio - can you post my plot (i need a copy anyway )
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Daimo B
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Nahh, im ok with the ecotech pipe cheers, i like having that bit more torque and less power.
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