Really nice build! .. Sounds very smart to de-turbo the car if it eats transmissions.. it will still be tons of fun.. maybe even more so if it feels reliable.. and also sounds like it would be worth a dyno-map-session to check and maybe adjust.. to make sure that you can keep torque within healthy levels.. any thoughts on that so far?
T56 and change the rear end gear if needed.
Definitely makes sense you had a 1.6 trans. I have a 2001 with 230hp 5 speed and haven’t had issues so far!
I didn’t add it also has 150k miles on it
I hope to have the same luck as you. I'm glad I pulled apart the other one to see what happened. Let me be able to identify it as a 1.6
BuildingTheEXOCET I think you should be very reliable with a 1.8 5 speed. Especially since the exo is much lighter
Really nice build! .. Sounds very smart to de-turbo the car if it eats transmissions.. it will still be tons of fun.. maybe even more so if it feels reliable.. and also sounds like it would be worth a dyno-map-session to check and maybe adjust.. to make sure that you can keep torque within healthy levels.. any thoughts on that so far?
That's the plan this spring