hi guys after driving a sporting for over a year i got bored and one morning i woke up with the idea of going turbo ... not long after that (three days actually) i put it in the garage and took it apart not really knowing what i'm doing .... and after a month and a half of reading books making phonecalls and drinking beer in the garage i ended up with a 16vT running an 18psi and wheelspin in third gear the car ran absolutely smooth and the power was frightening .. the bad news is that after 500km of full throttle the headgasket blew but no other damage at all my custom MLS headgasket will arrive by the end of the week and it will be up and running again

the setup is:

custom manifold .. made by me
kkk16 turbo
custom downpipe
50mm. turbo hoses
standart fuel pump
audi TT bosch new style injectors 317cc./min@3bar
some chinese s***t blowoff .. surprisingly LOUD
punto GT intercooler
standart pistons with double gasket ~8.2:1CR (soon MLS - 8:1CR)
standart electronics ... only the map sensor is changed with a 250kpa unit
remap

here are some pics i made with my phone sorry for the bad quality : http://www.snimka.bg/album.php?album_id=32051

i'll be happy to hear your questions, comments and advises ... thanks in advance and sorry for my bad eglish

Hi nice to see you've started your own thread
Welcome to the Fiat Forum.
They're very shy out there so give them a little time

This engine and mods are for real. We've been chatting via pm over the last 2 months.

Gad
What sort of power are you putting out?
0 tom 60 time?
Any problems with detonation?

0-60 around 6.6-6.7 sec.
1/4 mile 14.62sec.

can do better but with 14" tires wheelspin is unbearable will try some slicks next time when i'm on track

no sign of detonation pistons and plugs are absolutely clean ... the car ran fine on 1 bar but the gaskets didnt hold that much

0-60 around 6.6-6.7 sec.
1/4 mile 14.62sec.

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Now thats what i call Punto Power lol :slayer: Nice car gad3n wanna swap? Welcome to the forum..

yay its the same colour as mine
nice one, but why does it look so high on the wheels?

Cos it looks like its sitting on 14's

missey said:

Cos it looks like its sitting on 14's

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Mine's sitting on 14s lol and even before lowering it looked better in the arches...
but why am i bothered? that thing could rip me off the lights before ive even seen the car, never mind the wheels

it is high because pictures are old it is now sitting on -50mm springs and bilstein shocks ... completely different look ... measured 11sm. clearance from front bumper to ground

gdgd, now can you do the same to my car?

i'm far far away from you ... but it's not that difficult to do it yourself ... do the turbo things and leave the car to a garage to do their computer magic and leave with a turbo monster

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i'm far far away from you ... but it's not that difficult to do it yourself ... do the turbo things and leave the car to a garage to do their computer magic and leave with a turbo monster

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Easy


erm, not for me it wouldn't be

how did you get the ecu to fuel enough on boost or is it not on standard etc?

it is standart ecu ... just the map sensor is changed to 250kpa (standart is 105kpa and can't see above atmospheric pressure) and then it is remapped on the road ... we used dimsport race 2000 software+MET16 emulator and innovate motorsports wideband lambda ... we havent measured EGT yet but i presume it is fine ... no glowing in the dark after a lot of full throttle driving

still waiting for the headgasket and having nothing else to do took the grinder and head is now slightly ported and with nice fine polish ... perhaps it wont make much difference in performance but it is nice to see all the imperfections go away ... all ports are now around 2mm bigger and matched to the intake manifold

the whole idea sounds sooo good... "wheelspin in 3rd" in a punto

sounds as though once the compression ratio is lowered it will give no futher problems.

have you got a RR power figure for us?

no dyno figures yet ... i'm quite curious what the results would be our dyno is quite busy all the time i'll have to call them to put me on scadule soon ...

it is back and running again after a week of finding electrical problems :bang: the car ran perfect for about 10 minutes then injection light comes on ... loses idle starts to jugger and makes explosions from the exhaust when it sees some boost ... it turned out to be faulty map sensor which loses the signal from time to time ... hope nothing wrong will happen these days because i'm getting really tired of it

Any videos of it?

completely forgot about the videos i have some on my GF's PC i'll upload them the day after tommorow cos she is out of town

gad3n said:

it is back and running again after a week of finding electrical problems :bang: the car ran perfect for about 10 minutes then injection light comes on ... loses idle starts to jugger and makes explosions from the exhaust when it sees some boost ... it turned out to be faulty map sensor which loses the signal from time to time ... hope nothing wrong will happen these days because i'm getting really tired of it

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Yeah, wears you down doesn't it...........still thats the price you pay for doing original stuff