turbo kit on ebay

1. Kman Infrequent Poster Joined: Dec 2008 Isle of Wight Posts: 191 Saxo vtr Turbo Saxo vts

   #1 21st August 2009, 16:41

   has any1 seen the vtr turbo kit on ebay?is it any good or a pile of rubbish? am i better off getting the cituning stage 1 kit?
2. Strikevts Established Member Joined: Jan 2007 Uttoxeter Posts: 1519 Mk2 Cammed VTS

   #2 21st August 2009, 16:43

   heres the thing, if you want it to run right on your car then get a turbo kit from Cituning, if not then buy ebay crap.
3. sliderz Frequent Poster Joined: Jun 2007 warrington Posts: 722 saxo vts turbo

   #3 21st August 2009, 16:47

   read up instead of posting shit do you even have a idea of what you want or how much it will be or is it a pipe dream
   
   example im turboing my car witch i am
   so my build is of
   intercooler
   peco injectors
   wossner pistons and rods
   intercooler piping
   standalone ecu and map
   t25 turbo
   1.9mm gasket
   gready bov dump
   cituning mainfold
   cituning down pipe
   work the cost out of that then ask your self can you aford it
4. ukgaz Frequent Poster Joined: Dec 2008 Maidenhead Posts: 683 Saxo VtR '52

   #4 21st August 2009, 17:48

   Just saw that advert, person who wrote it can barely even spell!
   
   the turbo could be smoking, blown.
   no intercooler so turbo could of overheated, possibly blew the head and shot oil and god knows what through the turbo.
   
   That's just some examples of what could be wrong, if your planning on doing a conversion, don't get some ebay jobby, take your time, do your research, there's plenty of people on here who know what they are doing, talk to gmc, talk to cituning, talk to dp-engineering.
   
   And not to mention like sliderz said can you afford it? You got three options
   
   Cheap
   Reliable
   Powerfull
   
   Only 2/3 you can have.
5. Sophia_Bush Saxperience Post Whore Joined: Jan 2007 Shropshire Posts: 9994 Moonstone Blue 106 GTi

   #5 21st August 2009, 17:52

   If you can't do the work yourself or most of it then it won't be a cheap build
   
   gaz, sliderz, myself, saxo-89 plus a few other lads all doing budget builds but thing is we are actually doing most of the work ourselves.
6. Kman Infrequent Poster Joined: Dec 2008 Isle of Wight Posts: 191 Saxo vtr Turbo Saxo vts

   #6 21st August 2009, 18:12

   it aint a pipe dream! and im going to do the work myself ive have been doin reaserch! just wanted advice! im gunna go for the cituning stage 1 and go from there.thanks.
7. user_15989 Saxperience Forum Bum Joined: May 2007 Posts: 4857

   #7 21st August 2009, 18:24

   If you are talking about this one
   
   http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/saxo-106-turbo...d=p3286.c0.m14
   
   Then its one of two things. 1 is its exceptionally poorly listed with many of the parts missing from the listing with a lot of artistic licence in the description. Or 2 its yet another pile of poo on ebay and its yet another conman.
   
   What one do you think it is?
8. ryanmt Established Member Joined: Oct 2004 Warrington Posts: 1987 AX VTS 57 3.0 TDI A5

   #8 21st August 2009, 18:54

   "no intercooler so turbo could of overheated, possibly blew the head and shot oil and god knows what through the turbo. "
   what? why would an intercooler cause the turbo to overheat
   
   fact is, you can run without an intercooler if you wanted to. As long as the turbo is attached to the car and it is
   - cooled well enough so the oil doesnt coke up and the engine doesnt melt
   - the boost is low enough that the engine can handle it without melting
   - the mapping is sufficient so it doesnt melt the engine.
   
   Granted it wont make much power with a crap turbo and no intercooler but theres no reason atall why it cant be reliable and make a gain over standard, the reasons they don't 99% of the time is because people don't buy an oil cooler and don't have the car mapped properly, and get bored of the power so up the boost causing pretty much instant destruction.
   
   That kits expensive for what it is.. and you cant see it on the car, if the turbos mounted on an angle that will starve it of oil then its useless.
9. ukgaz Frequent Poster Joined: Dec 2008 Maidenhead Posts: 683 Saxo VtR '52

   #9 21st August 2009, 19:21

   ryanmt, my mistake, but you are correct, should of put a , instead of the word "so" (busy day!) but there is a lot of possibilities of what could be wrong with it, then again for all we know could be a person who's dyslexic and it works fine. In the end in my personal opinion, wouldn't go for the package.
10. boabVTR Frequent Poster Joined: Jan 2009 isle of bute Posts: 585 project saxo vts, escort gti,

    #10 21st August 2009, 19:29

    look at what you get in the ci tunining package then see if you can get hold of the parts seperately from other sources it will most likely work out ALOT cheaper
11. user_15989 Saxperience Forum Bum Joined: May 2007 Posts: 4857

    #11 21st August 2009, 19:38

    Quote:

    Originally Posted by boabVTR look at what you get in the ci tunining package then see if you can get hold of the parts seperately from other sources it will most likely work out ALOT cheaper

    I don't really think you could make a substantial saving. At least not for the same quality of parts.
    
    Only way I can see you making savings is making complicated parts for your self. Thats great if you can.
    
    Or start hunting about for use parts and getting very lucky. Most of what you fill see is warn out junk or really not all that sutable so you really do have to know what your doing and be lucky.
    
    Or to buy cheap knock offs. But that is throwing your money away.