Familia GTX engine swap or alternative legal turbo install

Astroboysoup · Postby **Astroboysoup** » Wed Apr 05, 2006 1:06 pm

Just got a copy of the complete ADR rulings and specfications.. looks like a really boring read.

550 meg worth of PDFs.

Moggy · Postby **Moggy** » Wed Apr 05, 2006 10:09 pm

Incidentally, I just got my car tuned today - finally!

Seems to run very well, currently running 125rwkw at 12psi. I also didn't have to change the fuel pump which made me pretty happy.

Now I just have to work out why the tacho doesn't work anymore! :roll:

SuperMazdaKart · Postby **SuperMazdaKart** » Wed Apr 05, 2006 10:38 pm

once you've read all that astro, give us all here the 2 sentence version

Astroboysoup · Postby **Astroboysoup** » Tue Apr 11, 2006 9:36 am

i'll just make you a copy and you can read it yourself....

yarnmx5 · Postby **yarnmx5** » Tue Nov 14, 2006 11:57 am

for those who are interested, deptartment of Transport SA has now got an emmissions testing facility, $450 per test.

So those who were looking to turbo their cars legally may now have a better chance.....perhaps?

Lucky_Luke · Postby **Lucky_Luke** » Tue Nov 14, 2006 2:56 pm

Well thats a hell of a lot cheaper than the $6000 the \"recommended engineers\" from the transport sa website told me about 8months ago...

Do you know any more about it? Is that a full on enclosed test ? or just a little sock of the tail pipe, which i imagine would still me a marginal improvement on the little wand they normally use in garages.

Now that i've upgraded brakes and diff, i may have a better chance at legalising

... maybe.. always = more $$$ ..

those green eyed transport departmental people!!

yarnmx5 · Postby **yarnmx5** » Tue Nov 14, 2006 4:20 pm

must admit dont know too much about it. Although from what I've heard, they have two dynos on site and need the car for about 3 hours. If the emissions do not pass you have to come back...another $450 and so on.

I'd reckon you'd still have to go through their vehicle standards section, have the car inspected, engineers report, etc etc.

If anyone does it, let the rest of us know.