Want 280-300bhp, what's the best way to go? One for the Techies.

[Agreeable Slick]

  bloody magpies!!! 

[wag,en,volks]

look into getting a 2 litre 16v ,with an eaton supercharger on it ,
 AWT do this conversion,and it gives an easy 300bhp

[Dizzie]

I'm with Slick on this one. Turboing an old engine with a collection of parts from various cars around is too much like hard work!

As for the comment about just turning up the boost on a turbo! This is a receipe for a meltdown. With a modern fuel management system the turbo is governed by the management. if you put a bleed valve on like the RST's or R5T's used back in the 80's/90's to turn up their boost you're making the management take a back seat at running the engine. More boost means more fuel to compensate. If this isn't carefully managed then you melt pistons.

If you seriously want to turbo a 16v then you'll need to replace the pistons, con rods, possibley the crank to adjust the compression ratio. Stacking gaskets is a bodge and should be avoided. do it properly from the start! 300bhp is a lot of power to ask from a 1.8 block and given than the KR block isn't as braced as the 1.8T's found in the newer cars I wouldnt want to risk it myself!

Why does everyone think BAM coded 1.8T engines are the be all and end all of the engine code game?! BAM isn't the best and it isn't the easiest to install.

[...joe]

BAM is just as easy as any other i looked at but was the most power out of the box along with an APX or the AMK, just the BAM is more common...

[Dizzie]

actually I would say the AGU is the easiest to install into a mk2. The k04'd engines have to have the oil feed slightly modded to clear the mk2's rear engine mount, but that's going off topic