Smart injection

[Dust]

Originally Posted by Kapt. Q

http://www.turborebuild.co.uk/p/prod...l+434976-0005/

It may be a tiny turbo, but it's compressor wheel also has a tiny price, so water erosion now holds no fear!

Cheers!

I wish I could find more info on the VQ-37 turbo my car had. I had to use a motorcycle carb filter for when I was experimenting with Hot air intakes. I think the OD was a little over 1 inch.

[Kapt. Q]

Originally Posted by Dust

No, gonna find a way to wear it out. There are no FI smarts in the US that I know of. A smart with a boosted hayabusa engine would be nice though.

There are a few 450's (old shape turbos like mine) in the States and there are turbo kits available in the US for the 451 that is sold there.

Bike engined Smarts tend to be impractical dogs because of the weak bike gearbox and the engines that have to be going mega rpm to make power, also you loose ABS and ESP.

Better to put a toyota MR2 engine in as my friend did:




It won a prize at 'Smart Times' the official international meet.

Cheers!

[Dust]

Used 2005 smart fortwo passion. Seem to be only 3 for sale on autotrader in the entire country.

[Kapt. Q]

Originally Posted by Dust

Used 2005 smart fortwo passion. Seem to be only 3 for sale on autotrader in the entire country.

Buy it! You'll have something unique! The 'Passion' is a max options model. It also has the 700cc, 2002 and earlier have the 600cc.

Cheers!

[Richard L]

Nice looking car!

MR2 turboed engine?

[Kapt. Q]

Originally Posted by Richard L

Nice looking car!

MR2 turboed engine?

No, it was the non turbo 2.0 16v, but no problem to turbo it too for 300hp+, much better than a Hyabusa! There is a similar yellow and black smart (Froglet) on the Hill climb curcit that pops wheelies!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R1mIZ9nKlBs

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3hBWVWbQZ4A

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LtKdDkMPAUw

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LSDf8Vc_7bU

Cheers!

[Richard L]

Wow, watched them all. Very entertaining indeed. I saw a bit of drifting on the last video. You don't happen to have some footage of the smart car doing drifting? It is rare wheel driven.

[Dust]

Originally Posted by Kapt. Q

Buy it! You'll have something unique! The 'Passion' is a max options model. It also has the 700cc, 2002 and earlier have the 600cc.

Cheers!

Here in Japan we have the 600 and 700. I would buy the 600 because of the tax system here. I don't know if I would want to be driving a smart on some of the roads in Central Texas. If I was city bound, and there was a full size available, maybe.

How much "better" is the 700 than the 600.

[Kapt. Q]

So, time for an update:

All is now mechanically sound, Brabus turbo installed and working, engine mount and thermostat replaced, Water injection functioning correctly, throttle body sorted.

Remapping to take advantage of it all starts on Wednesday morning!

Cheers!

Hi Dust, the 700 is more reliable, it doesn't work so hard. Supposedly the 600 can rev better although it has a heavier flywheel (the 700 is a stroked 600). I have no experience of it personally. Central Texas would be no problem, the 450's are 4 star NCAP rated, there's some good crash vids on youtube, you might be surprised at their performance in that dept.

[Dust]

updates? I'd like to see how it is going.