Done a quick search and didn't find anything....

I have a vRS, and would love to convert it to a 1.8T petrol engine. Possible? Whats involved? how much? anyone know a place that would do it?

Don't bother doing a vRS - Better off doing it on a cheapo older petrol car in my opinion. I think a 2 litre would be a good starting point.

or buy an ibiza or polo.

yer do it to a petrol engined fabia! doing it to a diesel you'd have to change all the diesel pump over and everything! such a ballache! although if you are mega interested speak to kev at jabbasport! i know hes done a lot of thinking about this and research!!

or buy an ibiza or polo.

With some skoda badges and some treatment with a big hammer like in Father Ted that could work.

Id love a 1.8T Fabia!

I miss my 1.8T sooooo much! :(

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an equivalent age/milage fabia is about £7500 and a conversion is gonna cost you way more than £1500 not to mention insurance and resale.

Depending on whether you wanted it for a fun project or just a toy with no resale, combining say

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with say:

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could be good? Outlay of £3500 on the two cars. LCR can donate the BAM engine, brembos, and other running gear as needed. Sure will be hard work plumbing in everything out the LCR into the fabia (I imagine the dash would need mongrelling to fit....). Afterwards the bits leftover from both (SDI running gear, LCR wheels & panels) can be sold on to recoup back some outlay.

It's the way I would personally attack it, and the way I wish I had attacked my own conversion - in hindsight.

it sure would be a lot of work, the engine doesn't fit.

Oh it does (with some work) - There's a blue fabia in Europe somewhere running BAM setup. For some reason my memory is saying the fabia has a Smurf theme, all blue? :confused: [goes off to youtube]

I was slightly wrong. It's an octy vRS (AGU?) engine, not a BAM.

ok maybe i was a little vague, it will fit much like my mates RWD 2.0 nova

I'd like to see a 1.8T Fabia in Britain.

I know it's daft but I was hoping more for a conversion utilising one of these:

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And trying to get the whole quattro in there too. I imagine some serious bulkhead chopping needed....

Its a great idea buddy, would love to see it done, and to hear it, would be nice to hear a vrs with a petrol burble coming from the exhaust.

Oh, and isn't the Milotec vrs a 1.8 turbo?

A mk4 ibiza 1.8t should drop in using the same engine mounts as a fabia i believe.. Once my diesel gets tired i'll be looking for a rear ended ibiza 1.8t

This is my next conversion, a 1.8T fabia. Was looking at going one further and either doing it 4wd or rwd. Would be a laugh turning up to a drift event in a fabia estate!

Alex

I believe that Lummox has quoted someone about £3000 plus the parts to do this.Given that you can pick up a decent X-plate for £1000 and the engine would be a couple of hundred from a breakers it could be a pretty cheap fireball if it was done right.

just found this guys!!!

The Car Lounge Forums: Fabia 1,8T conversion.

it sounds really sweet and id love one of these

2.7T a definite no go, unless you want to mid mount it

Rear ended Ibiza or polo is what you need

2.7T a definite no go, unless you want to mid mount it

I'd give it a shot. Might involve a lot of bulkhead removal but would be fun Last resort attempt to drop the fabia body on the S4 chassis

If you gonna go for mid mount and cut through/remove all the bulk heads then you may as well do it properly

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I believe that Lummox has quoted someone about £3000 plus the parts to do this.Given that you can pick up a decent X-plate for £1000 and the engine would be a couple of hundred from a breakers it could be a pretty cheap fireball if it was done right.

please show me any 20v for a couple of hundred,rough no history junkers start at 500,and believe me its too cheap,you need to look at paying 1k+ for just the engine ecu/turbo then you need a gearbox(you could use the 6 speed but would need a lot of power to optimise it)

On 7/13/2009 at 23:52, VRS 203 said:

I'd like to see a 1.8T Fabia in Britain.

Watch this space, starting my new project this year, gonna build the ultimate fabia estate sleeper using the 1.8 20v turbo Quattro running gear

Well obviously we are from different planets, as I swaped 1.9 ASZ in my originally 1.4MPI Furbie