I know theres a few already been done, but i wanted more power!! over the past few weeks ive been installing a turbo on my panda. If anyone wants any advice all i would say is DONT DO IT its been a nightmare, BUT its starting to get fun now!!

The specs are:

A t3/t4 turbo from eBay (huge but cheap, also still get low down fuel economy) sat on a modified abarth 500 manifold
Custom Exhaust system made in 2 1/4 stainless steel
AEM FIC8 piggyback ECU just adjusting the fueling/timing under boost
A PLX Wideband lambda sensor
An new mushroom style air filter
Toyosport intercooler from eBay with 2 1/4 intercooler pipes
Oil drain welded to the sump
Oil feed from the pressure switch,

Due to the size of the turbo I've had to modify the front panel to get the turbo in, also I've lost my air con condenser due to the intercooler but i may have ago at moving the intercooler forward and putting the condenser back in cos i miss the air con

Its running about 6psi at the moments, on a safe base map but the fuel leans off at about 5000rpm due to the injectors being maxed out. The boost doesnt come in until about 3000rpm, but the power in the 100hp never comes in until about 4000rpm anyway, if I was to do it again I would have got a smaller turbo tho!:bang:

When I've got the bigger injectors I might try a decompression plate from Ferriday Engineering, as the have the plate on file so they could just make one of any thickness. Anybody had any experiences of Ferriday, or decomp plates??

I need to take more pictures but heres a few for now.

How much has it cost so far?

probably around £700

Best source of knowledge is probably the Cinq/Sei section. A T3 has to be a lot too big, BWTH.

The gearbox is likely to become victim in the relatively near future. Maybe not making any boost low down will help protect it. FCS, fit an oil cooler, or at least an oil temperature guage (so you can scare yourself).

Still, so far you've spent bugger all -- only a little more than I spent on an MR2 tub -- so well done.

Love it!!

Fuel consumption is dramaticly reduced tho all in the aid of fun

If you really want to find out about poor fuel consumption, I'll swap you my chipped T5 for a weekend. On motorways it's reasonable, in urban conditions (and I'm talking Liverpool, not London), 11 mpg!

I'd be sending it back and getting an economy chip put on it

But it's frighteningly fast!

tps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bYst0uf8ySI

there's a link to the car doing to 85 ish

At USC at the monent at Santa pod. Tried running the car but it developed a misfire

If anyone's here come Cuise Blackpool in club camping and ask for the panda, you'll probably see me.

timmchugh11 said:

tps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bYst0uf8ySI

there's a link to the car doing to 85 ish

At USC at the monent at Santa pod. Tried running the car but it developed a misfire

If anyone's here come Cuise Blackpool in club camping and ask for the panda, you'll probably see me.

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Try that

timmchugh11 said:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bYst0uf8ySI&feature=youtube_gdata_player

Try that

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Took a few more pictures today of the engine and a few more of the rest of the car. Need to book it in on the rollers so i can see what power its running!!

The Pretender said:

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just made it public

That is one hell of a big turbo! Does it have a lot of lag?

Boost comes in around 3000-3500 rpm

timmchugh11 said:

Boost comes in around 3000-3500 rpm

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Ahh, quite a while before it comes on boost, does it carry the boost until the limiter? How much are you running? My apologies for not reading but i guess youre on standard internals?

Yea standard internals, running 6psi and it pulls full boost all the way, but it starts to run lean at around 5500 so its not best to keep doing it until I get bigger injectors

timmchugh11 said:

Yea standard internals, running 6psi and it pulls full boost all the way, but it starts to run lean at around 5500 so its not best to keep doing it until I get bigger injectors

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And a bigger fuel pump, and some way of controlling the fuelling (preferably the ignition, too). Else disaster awaits.