My MG ZS Turbo....

[Ritchy]

thats a job sooner or later for me is getting another k series, complete rebuild n porting and polishin the head to match an alloy manifold

[carmadbaker]

Originally Posted by Andy25

Seems like a great project although it seems your going round the houses a little for the wiring lol.

lol tell me about it! complete nightmare! by trade im an electrician so you expect better! however...being a sparky...i know the trouble with messing around with lots of cables and cutting into them etc...one dry solder could mess up the whole project....so i thought seen as both cars were stripped out anyway...just to swap the entire loom....its a proven workin loom in my old 400....still a pain in the a55 tho!! ha ha!!
I'll be contacting you guys soon for tubular s14 manifolds by the way

[carmadbaker]

well today MORE parts were purchased and my bank account emptied further! Doh!
I've got the gas flowed head, SPAX RSX coilovers on order, and sunday i pick up a Garrett GT3071R Turbo charger, hell yeah
http://www.turbobygarrett.com/turbob...30/GT3071R.htm
After speaking to a few guys on Rovertech....their cars with similar specs have easily pulled between 360 and 440 bhp!!
Never going to need that much power EVER and it'll be ridiculous to drive...but hey....
We shall see......

[Jay-ZS+]

wow that will be some serious power! bet that will be fun!!

[carmadbaker]

Originally Posted by Jay-ZS+

wow that will be some serious power! bet that will be fun!!

Fun....DEFINITELY!!
Dangerous..... DEFINITELY!!
ha ha!!

[Jay-ZS+]

you will have something to rival daves reyland conversion with that kinnda power! How does the zs handle with the Tseries lump in much the same as the v6 I assume?

[carmadbaker]

300bhp+ was always destined for the zeds! we are giving them what the chassis deserves
The handling i think will be compromised with the stupid amount of torque steer and the fact as soon as the turbo starts singing i'll probably be fighting HUGE amounts of wheel spin, it definitely won't be as smooth as the V6, and certainly won't sound as nice
The late 400's deal with the t-series very well, EMS Ralphs blue one and my old black one are/were pretty good! But they have half the power i'm hoping for... we shall see in the ever nearing future!

[afcbadam]

alot of astra owners run the GT30. always giving good results.

a few are running the GT35 and are running over 500 bhp.

we need more pics

only just seen this thread nice 1 i do hope ur getting a dif with all that power i struggle sometimes with mine

[carmadbaker]

Originally Posted by lewerty

only just seen this thread nice 1 i do hope ur getting a dif with all that power i struggle sometimes with mine

Its got the standard Torsen type B fitted... but to be honest i know it won't be man enough so im slowly piecing together a diesel GB hopefully with a Quaife. WHEN my current GB implodes i'll be ready hopefully...

Originally Posted by afcbadam

alot of astra owners run the GT30. always giving good results.

a few are running the GT35 and are running over 500 bhp.

we need more pics

thats some big figures! they recon the 3071 is good for 460bhp which should just about do me fine.........for now
Any of your guys use an external wastegate setup?
And i'll get some pics up as soon as i take em