Anyone got any idea how much I should expect to pay for one of these and know anywhere that may sell them?

Anyone got any idea how much I should expect to pay for one of these and know anywhere that may sell them?

Just trawl around the breakers yards but make sure you get the right year, I know on the STi's they varied Turbo sizes & compession ratios on various years, If you get a big Turbo + high compression it will blow up even quicker.

It pays to try the smaller breakers as well, they sometimes dont know what they have got. When my Imported STi let go 3 years ago I picked up a complete Sti4 lump that had covered 18000 miles with all the ancillaries including the Turbo & the cars brain for

My boss might have a spare one in his garage. Think its an early 93 WRX one. Am I right in thinking this would have the mitsubishi turbo?

The reason I'm after one is to go in the beetle.

The reason I'm after one is to go in the beetle.

:eek:

What about a Fiat Twin Cam??????

The reason I'm after one is to go in the beetle.

Now THAT would be a sleeper

Had a porker engine in the splitty so don't want to do that again.

Through a bit of research today we've discovered an Alfa (Fiat) 1700 or the scoob powerplant will fit.

If the weather stays fine the VW engine will be getting taken out tonight.

I'll try and post a few pics if I have time.

Drilling nice big holes in the bonnet to let air in for the radiator and intercooler could be fun.

As you are not tied to one model I would suggest sticking with a UK spec one, they tend to go bang less & dont need high Octane fuel all the time, as you probably know all jap spec cars are designed to run on 100 Octane which means Optisludge + Octane booster in the UK, & at 20 ish mpg it adds up !!!!

As you are not tied to one model I would suggest sticking with a UK spec one, they tend to go bang less & dont need high Octane fuel all the time, as you probably know all jap spec cars are designed to run on 100 Octane which means Optisludge + Octane booster in the UK, & at 20 ish mpg it adds up !!!!

Yep 208-215bhp should be ample for a Beetle

Chris

As you are not tied to one model I would suggest sticking with a UK spec one, they tend to go bang less & dont need high Octane fuel all the time, as you probably know all jap spec cars are designed to run on 100 Octane which means Optisludge + Octane booster in the UK, & at 20 ish mpg it adds up !!!!

Good point. Boss has blown a few engines because of this.

Had a porker engine in the splitty so don't want to do that again.

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Hasn't a certain 'celebrity ' chef done that with his?

Now thats a beetle i HAVE to see!!!

Yep 208-215bhp should be ample for a Beetle

Chris

You will be upgrading the stopping power as well :eek:

There's already a super beetle available, the CUP GT or something, it's around 240BHP. There's quite a few of them down here (I wouldn't be caught dead driving a Beetle though...I think).

Thats the RS Beetle. Quite cool, like a Golf R32, but in the new Beetle

Andy, pinched this list of ones to try from Scoobynet:

Breakers :

http://www.gradea-subaru.co.uk/ 01663 744114

http://www.central-subaru.co.uk/

There's already a super beetle available, the CUP GT or something, it's around 240BHP. There's quite a few of them down here (I wouldn't be caught dead driving a Beetle though...I think).

Ah yes buts a brand new beetle.

This is a pukka old K reg classic beetle we have.

Brakes will have to be uprated and it's going to get a cage fitted just incase things go pear shaped.

As the car is tax exempt, I wondering if this will cancel that out, i.e. will I have to pay road tax for it?

Now there's a question.

Thats the RS Beetle. Quite cool' date=' like a Golf R32, but in the new Beetle

Andy, pinched this list of ones to try from Scoobynet:

Breakers :

[url']http://www.gradea-subaru.co.uk/[/url] 01663 744114

http://www.central-subaru.co.uk/

Try Wayne at JMA 02380471592

If you are going to keep the engine standard then try for a 96on small turbo UK version. The earlier UK versions had the big TD04 turbo fitted, these come on boost later and have more lag but have more scope for tuning.

Have seen a couple of scoob engined beetle's, there are Scoob engined quad bikes available as well.

Cheers

Lee

So andy did you buy this months Retro Car mag?

So andy did you buy this months Retro Car mag?

No.

Is there one with the scoob conversion in?

Found this for you.......

http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&category=10424&item=4558248089&rd=1

seems cheap enough!!

Low miler on scoobynet

http://bbs.scoobynet.co.uk/showthread.php?t=434980

We were going to do this in ours - then we bought a house