Newbie With A Smart Car?
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Hi All,
I got some feedback from one of my Youtube films by Stevebenross to come and join turbominis! So here I am!

My Smart is a bit special because I'm running a stock MG Metro engine, but not turbo at the moment.

I am interested is retro fitting a turbo if anyone has some advice using the MG lump.

Hope to speak to you all soon.

Regards,
Ferrina.

do a search mate theres a huge amount of info on the site and no two cars are the same

oh and welcome to the site

Cheers Wolfie, been looking all night so far. Off out now.

Welcome mate

I hope that you are going to turbo it

In the 13's at last!.. Just

Could be quite cool as a turbo - would make it fairly quick!

smart with an mg engine? That must have been a fair bit of work to get that in, and a strange choice of engine. Sounds great though, do you have any pics?

Hi,
Welcome to TM :)
I would imagine the MG engine has more (and cheaper) tuning potential than the Smart lump?
Although I'd be interested to know how you're going to get it through an MOT?
Cheers,
Gavin :)

Edited by Bat on 19th Jul, 2008.

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Well, the car is all road legal, Taxed and MOT'd! Just looking for some upgrades to make it fly. I've had 85 out of it, but it was pushing it. It's not quick, but if I turbo it, it should make it a bit more fun!
I've got all the build pix and blog on www.myspace.com/smart1275gt (if you have myspace accounts?)

welcome Ferrina, we are all here to help
nice install but i and others are intrested why you chose an A series engine ?

hi and welcome.

no longer a series, but still 1.3 turbo.

more of a mod for the heart than the head then. the more you say about it and your reasons for it, the more my opions on it change!

Welcome Fella.

Hi and welcome,

I've been on here 9 months now and have been amazed at the depth of knowledge (compared to the other Mini forums).
I "got back" into Minis despite the engine being a 50 year old design because a Mini was my first car...
I also like to do something different hence my project being not only turbo but EFi as well (if I ever make it work...)
Enjoy

Schrödinger's cat - so which one am I ???

Yeah, it certainly seems to be a great forum and website for all things Turbo!!

Have you seen www.a-serious.com? Another good source for A series engined cars. I'm on there too.

Edited by Ferrina on 19th Jul, 2008.

after you see the help you can get from this forum you wont bother with any other.

I'll hold you to that!!!

welcome mate

i wont pretend to understand the conversion, but if it makes you happy!!

welcome to TM

"Turbo's make torque, and torque makes fun"

"did you know you can toast potato waffles?"

So, after a quick spin last night, my water pump has decided to go pop. that will get replaced next week. BUT! I really want to convert my engine to a turbocharged version, so what parts would I need to take a stock MG Metro engine to MG turbo? Mine is the 10.5:1 version with a big valve head, so I'm guessing de-compression plate, turbo manifold turbo and inlet. Any breathing or oil cooling required?

basically you have the idea,

although it would be better to have the chambers in the head enlarged, will probabbly work out about the same price, and will be cheaper on headgaskets in the future as there will only be one.

if you want to up the boost much from std you need to be looking at up rated diff's especially in your RWD. application,

smart idea.........lol

Well, I've had a look tonight and I need to cut out a section of the rear chassis to get the carb inside the engine bay. I need a turbo oil cooler set up and an fuel pressure regulator. Modify the exhaust down pipe ad an oil feed and return pipe. Air filter mods and away we go!! I guess an uprated cross diff pin will do the trick?
Any advice welcomed.

Cheers guys.

have a little search on here mate, you;ll probably be suprised to find that most dont run an oil cooler. just get a gauge and keep an eye on it, if it does start to get too high then you will want to start thinking about fitting one.

Welcome and post up some pics - cant stand myspace lol

AlexF