Boosting a CL ??

[Golf-Sam]

Guys ! just out of curiousity .. would it be worth turbo charging a 1.8 L ADZ engine ??

[The_Hawk]

Why not just source a newer 20V Turbo for it if that's that path your looking down?

[Jarred]

short answer: no. Imo atleast.

Pretty sure you'd have to do a fair bit of work to make it work.

if you had a 2.slow, that's another story. there are kits in the US for 2.0's. But! they're US specific so not all the kit would nessecaarily work on our cars. You'd have to check all the smaller details yourself to be sure!

[Ben J]

it could be done, but probably cost an a bomb to get it making any real power.

Hawk's idea might be a fair bit cheaper and bring much nicer results, but im guessing youd have to have the new engine engineered and such to make it legal and I have no idea whats involved in that.

[Jarred]

since you current engine and a 20VT are both 1.8's you might find you can be dodgey and don't need to get it engineered. Obviosuly this is dodgey, (and illegal) so I defiantly wouldn't recommend actually doing it.

[The_Hawk]

Getting something engineered isn't all that hard if you do a decent job of the conversion anyway. If you find a decent mechanic they can get it all done and dusted for you so it's a drive in drive out service

[ryana89]

VR6 Conversion???

[Ben J]

r32T conversion

[The_Hawk]

r32T conversion

oh yeah!!!

[VR28LT]

Too many 4dr VRs for cheap to bother making another one.

yeah thats true

[Golf-Sam]

r32T conversion

Now you're talkin' !!! anybody knows how much it would cost ??

[Golf-Sam]

I think a swap would be a better Idea .. just need to find a mechanic who's game enough to do it ..

[vwthunder]

Hmmmm probably around $15K

Or could be more, did you see the post of the Turbo VR6, just computer and tuning was around $5K

[Golf-Sam]

I hear ya .. I'm not going to worry about it now .. I'll get me a R32 when im done with Uni .. that thing will kick ass !!

[gldgti]

wow, did this thread go sideways or what?

I have done a little research into boosting a single point injection 1.8, for reasons i shall only go into if someone really wants to know. However, basically, it could be done, and fairly cheaply but the question is always "how much power do you want?" and my answer to that is that for not much money, you could make it worth your time and effort, but thats about it.

The single point injection system is pretty simple, and I was planning on doing a couple of things to fool it into giving more fuel. The results would have been a little rough, but it wouldnt have mattered so much, for the application.