Whale and cat – Autoreview

There is no order in this story
Whatever the word is a mystery.
Here is what the tale says:
There lived a cat and a whale.

A whale lives under the patterned hood of this Vesta Sport. Turbokit. I pass a couple of Aurus minivans, taxi out onto the dynamometer road of the test site, press the gas … May the force be with the impellers of the Chinese TD04 turbocharger, may the French JR5 gearbox endure this onslaught!

Chwhat do you expect from supercharged Vesta Sport? At least superiority over the Volkswagen Polo GT sedan. True, a 1400 cc Polo engine with a standard IHI RVF3 turbocharger can be pumped up with 125 hp. up to 180 hp, and if you put a more efficient turbine – for example, IHI IS12 from Octavia … Then 300 hp won’t be fantasy.

On this elegant Vesta, the turbocharger is more modest – the TD04 unit appeared at Mitsubishi Heavy Industries back in the nineties. For example, our 1998 Subaru Impreza GT with Dima Pitersky is equipped with just such a turbine. But you will not find the abbreviation MHI on the snail: it was released in China. Anyway, first find the turbine itself.

A turbokit with installation will now cost regarding 250 thousand rubles. Turbine from China, intercooler sized to fit behind lower bumper grille

This turbokit, invented by a Samara mechanic known on YouTube as Anton Quiring, is as invisible as possible. You open the hood and at first glance you don’t see anything related to supercharging – one to one as on the same Polo. If you remove the decorative cover, then the pipeline from the intercooler will appear.

And only on the lift, having thrown off the steel protection, you can consider the layout. The location of the turbine is lower, the hot part is literally a couple of centimeters from the oil filter and is not thermally insulated in any way, which is a little embarrassing. The engine remains completely stock except for a thick metal gasket between the block and the head that reduces the compression ratio from the standard 10.3:1 to 9.2:1. The sprawling manifold for turbocharging is manufactured by Clubturbo (alas, when installing the plane, you have to grind it), the author of the fittings for draining oil from the turbine into the sump is unknown, but they are already leaking. Otherwise, everything is neat and even elegant – look how accurately the intercooler fits into the front bumper. True, the black paint from it is already slowly flying around, although this Vesta was turbocharged just a year ago.

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