i read yesterday that the engine was used in the s3 so i may try and get the turbo of that because the s3 had 265hp
It also had different internals Stock compression in the Octavia will detonate the engine under boost
Im doing it with a friend who has done a turbo swap and completly new install of a turbo so i hope he knows that we need to decrease the compression also i have seen people who have done a turbo swap with this engine so i hope its possible
It's always possible. I just worry that you seem to trivialise the work involved --- Post updated --- It would be easier to take the full s3 engine and just swap that into the Octavia than fit the turbo to the Octavia engine
I did this the other day. Messing with a friend trying to get ahead of him on an interstate on-ramp in the rain, and suddenly I'm driving sideways. Almost put her into the rhubarb.
Looks good though I think it's nice to see that the design of a car that will sell in hundreds of thousands is interesting and a little adventurous. The current Insignia is pretty dull so I think this new one is an improvement.
Its a FWD liftback with a V6 and some kind of 4cyl probably that is being put under the nameplate of a car that has been a RWD sedan with a V8 for 40 years.. Its a F**king abomination and a disgrace
Hardly a disgrace. GM are selling the same car across the world under different brands to suit the different markets. Obviously the UK market will be different from the Australian one but would a FWD I4 really be in the same class as a RWD V8? They've either replaced a car that wasn't selling very well, or replaced it with something unsuitable. If it's the latter then I can see the issue.
He's arguing from a heritage point of view. Feels as though the spirit of the car is dead because of the "modernization" done to it. Rwd and v8 is old school.
Then I can't see why they'd replace it with the current model. Don't get me wrong, I do think it's a shame that production of Australian Holdens is stopping but I like the Vauxhall Insignia's replacement.
Its nice in Europe as a Opel/Vauxhall & the Americans seem like it as the Buick. But as soon as they tried to pass it off as an Australian motoring legend, it became a shitbox in this country.
That sucks, just like the current (Us-Spec) Impala had RWD up until 2000. Which was formally the Caprice in certain occasions.
Huh? I think you're talking about the Chevy Caprice, which went out of production in 1996. That was chevy's last body on frame, v8, rwd car for the U.S. market. The 90s Impala SS was just a souped up Caprice. In 2000 the Impala went on sale as its own model, which was v6, unibody, and fwd. It was also terrible.
