the akciddento vw t25 t3 turbo race builders van with junkyard turbo install feature on BBC Points West evening news program. At the Raceshack tuning facility in Tweaksbury fitting version one of the Junk Yard Turbo install. on a barn find VW wbx waterboxer 2.1l DJ motor we fitted the guts of a Saab turbo kit with Garret t3 turbo mated with the k-jet mechanical injection from a scrapped VW golf GTI. This was topped off with parts of a water to air intercooler from a Totota Celica turbo. Controlled with MSD ignition and an MSD distributor and coil the bus started to behave and made a little of 8lb of boost in initial form.
The standard gaskets in the original exhaust system were the weak link preventing more boost.
Total cost including buying the van £400


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