SnowmanV8
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I had a friend that wanted to fit a turbo to his vauxhall vectra... "what harm could it do if I use a turbo off the v6 vectra?" so, as his greasemonkey I looked into it and showed him the pictures of what happens to engine blocks that either weren't meant to have turbos or had bigger/wrong ones fitted.
We're talking cracked blocks, partially melted cranks, blown gaskets and all sorts of assorted nasties, think it put both of us off for life.
I turbo'd a v6 vec b. With uprating the internals ran beautifully only got rid of it because when I went under to replace fuel tank I realised the whole ass end was on its way out. Up your cooling if you want to up your turbo boost don't go too far without upgradable many other parts. First off new rings, gaskets all round and brakes to be safe. Keep it serviced and it will be fine. If you want serious gains uprated rings, Pistons, cams, exhaust, intake, fuel pump, torque converter/clutch. Further power gearbox transfer box, diffs. I may have missed one or two items but you get the gist.
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