Because you can. Why not? =P
Alot of people say why put money into a sunfire or cavy? Why not? haha deal with what you have i guess?
simple reason, have you ever tried merging onto a highway with a metro before??
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is that really a WRX setup? Must be a good sleeper if it runs.
I guess it would be a decent sleeper... even with the turbo i can't see it pushing out too many horses with a stock 1.0 3 cyl. I mean the push out what? 37 hp or something like that?
Who knows? Someone on here go do it and tell us what you think. Or go buy that geo. LAWL
make a more serious effort at it (not so half ass) and that could be a nice little beater!!
I've seen turbo metros in the 11s long before anyone else here did it.
A couple of guys I know did a rear mounted Northstar V8 in a Metro...that car was tits!
the most popular video of the geo metro running an 9 second pass, has me in the background... its got a GNX swap for the motor...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j89gCCuA57o
me in the white shirt orange sleeves haha...
Why not? I love it when people say stuff like "why turbo a cavalier" or "you can put a turbo on these?". Ive pretty much decided every n/a vehicle I ever own I will turbocharge at some point. Ill be the 70 year old guy in the turbo lincoln towncar haha.
I would never pay $4k for that car though. Buy the car for under a grand and put $500 or less into the setup, hmt style
icemike89 wrote:Why not? I love it when people say stuff like "why turbo a cavalier" or "you can put a turbo on these?". Ive pretty much decided every n/a vehicle I ever own I will turbocharge at some point. Ill be the 70 year old guy in the turbo lincoln towncar haha.
I would never pay $4k for that car though. Buy the car for under a grand and put $500 or less into the setup, hmt style
Having a turbo on a normally N/A car is so much fun. I had an old school HKS BOV on the tercel. It was obnoxiously loud. Normally this would fall under ricer status or just be lame, but that fact it was on a tercel made it so much fun. You should see peoples heads whip around when you drive by in a tercel with a 2.5" straight pipe and an HKS BOV sneezing in their face.
I can't wait to hear how the integra is gonna sound with a full 3" exhaust and an HKS SSQ BOV. The RX7 will be running an HKS SSQ BOV also. I'm a fan of HKS if you haven't noticed.
You'd be surprised at how much power you can eek out of that one liter 3 banger. Silly to say, but that was one of the best engines I ever had in a car. You only wished there was such a good engine in the Aveo today.
Anyway, in Canada you could get these things (Chevrolet Sprint/Pontiac Firefly) turbocharged from the factory. That bumped the power up from 55hp to about 75hp. Doesn't sound like much until you realize that the car only weighs about 1800lbs and that if you strip it down a bit you can easily get that down to to 1600lbs. I wouldn't be surprised that a race prepped version weighed under 1000lbs. I used to work on these things with a friend and when we sent one off to the scrap we'd cut it in two pieces to better fit it in his pickup. The rear end was so light without the hatch or windows that I could lift it up myself into the truck.
Also these things could be ordered with a naturally aspirated 1.3 liter 4 banger versions of the 3 cylinder (Same pistons/rods/head parts). With some mild screwing around you could get around 130hp with a turbo swap (Which needed nothing more than the turbo pistons and a custom built header) and you'd be into Ford Mustang GT territory for less than the cost of a set of mag wheels.
Damn good cars.
I can't speak for the 3-cyl metros but the Suzuki Swift GT is a beast. I use one to auto cross and it's a blast to fling around the track. The body on these are so light that if you put in a proper power plant it will fly. The Swift GT came with a 1.3 dohc 16-valve motor that put out 100hp. On paper that's nothing to blink about, but when you realize this thing is barely over a ton then it becomes clear. It's the same idea as the Miata...it doesn't have a boat load of hp but the motor it has doesn't have alot of car to move so it eqauls out very well.
I learned early on don't dog out ANY cars unknown, or untapped potential. 10 years ago (before Initial D & drifting became trendy) The Corolla GT-S hatchback was ugly, lame, and boring. Now it's one of the most over priced, over hyped, and most desired cars in tuning circles. If you braged about your corolla fastbacks performance numbers a decade ago people would have laughed at you. Now everyone respects them and excepts them as a viable RWD tuner.
The Metro/Swift is the same thing...only it hasn't been hyped up or become the next trendy thing. But interest is starting to get attention.
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Evol...??? wrote:
I learned early on don't dog out ANY cars unknown, or untapped potential. 10 years ago (before Initial D & drifting became trendy) The Corolla GT-S hatchback was ugly, lame, and boring. Now it's one of the most over priced, over hyped, and most desired cars in tuning circles. If you braged about your corolla fastbacks performance numbers a decade ago people would have laughed at you. Now everyone respects them and excepts them as a viable RWD tuner.
True, the owners of hatchbacks are the initial D fans. Anyone doing research on really wanting these cars for something other than "Mad tyte initial D drifts" knows the coupe is the way to go. It weights 50lbs less and is a more solid build because it doesn't have the big open area in the rear for the hatch.
I'm also biased since I have a coupe =P But I didn't overpay for mine. 1800 bucks for a clean one that is an actual GTS not a clone. 4age and LSD FTW!
Yeah the fastest car i have ever been in personally was a 04 s2000. All it had was a cat back dual exhaust and that thing SCREAMED. shifting at 8.5k rpms was a little fun too. =P
