Hmmm... interesting.
Mr Obsessed: I like your morals against taking a tiny engine and blowing it to pieces with turbo boost. Im a uni student, i want power and reliability. The last thing i need is a piston through my bonnet that requires me to buy another engine. (not to mention the bonnet
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I'm working full time soon so the funds will be there to do the conversion in which case i will sell my 1.8 hatch. One problem is that i have $2500 worth of stereo in my car and i would either have to sell it with the stereo or pull it out and buy a cheap h/u and speakers to put in it coz i gave away the stock stuff (lesson learnt). You may call me lazy, but it's just plain annoying.
It'll also depend if I can source a 200hp JDM KL-ZE at a decent price. They're on ebay from the U.S. but I'm highly doubtful that they are in fact JDMs and the postage is $500 US! I guess you gotta pay for what you want, ey.
For anyone who's done a conversion... what would be the approximate labour costs involved to have it done?