Maestro Turbo in stead of metro?
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i want to do a metro turbo engine conversion, but as they are now rare it is hard to frind one suitabel for a conversion so my question is would i be able to use a Maestro Turbo engine for a conversion? plz help

Cheers Ben

maestro turbo engines are going to be even more difficult to find, then when you do find one they're an O series i think so in no way are they as easy a conversion as the metro one.

you shouldnt need to find a whole turbo engine just the turbo bits and bolt them to a normal 1275 engine which will be pretty much the same as a turbo lump.

Nick.

theres about 6 turboe ngines/turbo kits on ebay last time i checked but i saw no meastros, and as bud says. there o-series, not an easy convert lol

Dan

The good thing about the O-series is that is approx 600lbs. :)

if your going to that extent, you may as well put in a vtec or xe lump, same amount of work

Team Racing

Thanks for the replies, but i ahve seen a company that do a mini egine frame for an RS turbo, what difficulties would there be for that conversion?
Ben

Ben,

Any conversion is not "easy" or else everyone would have them.

What you need to do is match the scope of your project with your own ability... if you can't do a certain part then be prepaired to pay someone else to do it for you... theres no shame in that!!

What is it you want from a mini?

Alex

AlexF

I just seen a 94 meastro down the scrappy with a mpi block ? and a gearbox on the end of instead of under all mounted the wrong way round i.e. ports at the front sparkplugs at back loked well odd

Metro turbo weekend driver,Mini turbo in the making again!

What scrappy was that Dangerous?

Alex

AlexF

challow near wantage,there is also a metro with vented discs and ap calipers down the far right by the wall

Metro turbo weekend driver,Mini turbo in the making again!

All the A+ in-line blocks (which is the same as a modern transverse layout) had a block that looked like the MPi one... they are different.

O series engine......also found in Sherpa vans......what a piece of cr@p......although bolting the montego turbo assy onto a raggy old Sherpa would be quite amusing.....

Yep i think you are right tom i have a friend who fitted a a series engine into a golf. He used a maestro block i think with all the turbo parts so that it was turbo. That was using a vw gear box. It was in performace vw magazine i think!!

Fitted an A-series - into a Golf?

Ha ha ha!

I'm curious now! Tell me more!

A-series - into a Golf?
lol

I was just thinking - I'm sure I saw an a-series in a Nova shell once - it was a grass-tracker or something similar...

The best use of mini/metro parts I have seen recently was at an autograss meeting. Class Two cars are allowed up to 1300cc engines as long as they were fitted as standard to that car. Hence a Nova must use a Nova engine, Micra must use a Micra engine etc. The engines also have to breath through a resitrictor of a certain size (not sure what)
However it seems that the carbs the Novas came with don't take kindly to being used on a circular restrictor, so a lot of the guys have junked them and are using.....wait for it.....a single SU instead!!!!!

yeah its no bs i have the engine sittin in my garage!! it was nothing special but it was completely different! I know it used a a series block and crank from a maesto all tha turbo rods pistons,cam,head turbo carb etc!! was a mad car will try and find some more info. It was built by a lecturer at my old college!!