Hello from Germany
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Hey all, my name is Ralf joining you from Germany.
My English is not the best, but hope you will understand me.

About 2 years ago I bought my 1989 Mini 1000 as an restauration project. It was standing close before the scrap press. Now it is close before driving on the road again.
Then, last month I bought an 1100cc engine for rebuild and tuning as an upgrade into my 1000 Mini. At that point I was not thinking about adding a turbo kit.
This Idea growth very fast when I could get a nice complete Metro turbo kit.

Now it is how it is, I will try to marry the 1100cc engine with the Metro turbo kit. For sure this will be a challanging task, maybe it will work sometime.

gr Ralf

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Welcome.

Do you have to use the Metro Turbo stuff to satisfy TUV?

The old T3 turbo is a big old lazy beast and not ideal on an 1100cc engine. Even on a 1275, they were pretty laggy. something smaller would be better. Lots of choice these days

Fastest 998 mini in the world? 13.05 1/4 mile 106mph

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hi wil, thanks.
No, this Metro kit came surprised to me as a nice complete kit for an atractive price.
I thought, I could fix it with no big risk as it is an original kit and as I don't have experience to try and maybe error alternatives from zero.

Welcome, the metro stuff is pretty redundant now with advances in turbo technology etc.

Most of the things you would steal from the metro turbo can be bought aftermarket now.

A more common turbo now for a small bore engine is the garrett GT1548 I think it is, the last two numbers might be wrong.

Hi ralf hope your build goes well

Welcome.

Phil.

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Well it will just work. And is a decent starting point. It's what I did on a 998 20 years ago (is it really that long ago!!), but it will be a bit laggy.

Fastest 998 mini in the world? 13.05 1/4 mile 106mph

www.twin-turbo.co.uk

thanks Pete and Phil.

@wil, you give me hope

Just reading a lot of interesting posts here. Nice and usefull informations in this forum.

hi, after some time thinking, reading and talking some people I decided to sell my Metro Turbo stuff.
Will now start from scratch But the 1100 cc engine will still be base.
I was recommended that turbo manifolds from fusionfabs would be a good choice.
Is that something what you also would recommend?
If so, what type of turbo would fit on that?

Fusionfabs produces some very good products.
I believe the GT1752 will fit and provide good results. There are plenty of guys on here with a wealth of experience relating to turbo'ing small bore units who may be able to offer better advice than me.

Shane

cool, just see a Garrett GT1752 with number 55560913 on Ebay.
Is that the right one or are there mor versions of GT1752?

That unfortunately I couldn't answer, if you key GT1752 in to the search button on here and scan through some of the multiple threads you should be able to unearth the answer.

Shane

wow, yes, there are many posts regarding the GT1752.
Found my answers, thanks for advise shane.

Not a problem.
There is a plethora of knowledge on this forum, many things have been covered multiple times and in serious depth, and we are fortunate to have members that continually push boundaries of the A series and openly share their findings. Searching is the key.

Hello and welcome to TM

I have started posting on Instagram also my name on there is turbomk1golf

Nothing is impossible it just costs more and takes longer.