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turbosprite

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A couple of past events: Sprint at Crystal Palace (somewhere around 1999), and an MGCC Trial at Burton Dasset (around 2003)...


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1971 Austin (Healey) Sprite - running turbocharged since 1993
My Car thread: http://www.turbominis.co.uk/forums/index.php?p=vt&tid=448825


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Same year as mine, love the down in the weeds stance *Yes*

'Where does the engine go?'


turbosprite

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Yes, it's back up to a more normal height now - it never got stuffed back down after the trialling escapades. And I did run the side pipe with it lowered too - I had always found it was the under axle pipe that bottomed first - except over speed humps where the cherry bomb used to get scraped...

1971 Austin (Healey) Sprite - running turbocharged since 1993
My Car thread: http://www.turbominis.co.uk/forums/index.php?p=vt&tid=448825


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Mine still does at times,even up in the air like it is now

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turbosprite

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RIGHT. So a few months of little activity - now starting to make some (slow) progress with fitting a T2 and an overdue engine rebuild.
I have a selection of T2's - from a standard R5GT item to a Stage 2 version. For now going for an aircooled T2 off a diesel Citroen Xantia with a R5GT turbine housing (it's aircooled, and has a slightly larger - 55 trim - compressor).
This is going to hang off a Metro manifold, with a 10mm spacer tapering down to match the T2 turbine inlet. I am using the T3 stud positions, having redrilled the holes in the T2 housing. On the turbine outlet side, I have had a flange machined up into which I have welded my existing 2" downpipe (which snakes down beside the gearbox and out through the bottom of the transmission tunnel).
Photos show outlet flange, comparison of T3 & T2 turbos (much smaller & 2.7 kg lighter), and finally my downpipe on the T3...


1971 Austin (Healey) Sprite - running turbocharged since 1993
My Car thread: http://www.turbominis.co.uk/forums/index.php?p=vt&tid=448825


turbosprite

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Edited by turbosprite on 17th Nov, 2012.

1971 Austin (Healey) Sprite - running turbocharged since 1993
My Car thread: http://www.turbominis.co.uk/forums/index.php?p=vt&tid=448825


turbosprite

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Oops - managed to post twice - thought it failed the first time!

1971 Austin (Healey) Sprite - running turbocharged since 1993
My Car thread: http://www.turbominis.co.uk/forums/index.php?p=vt&tid=448825

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