Red N15 GTi - Blackpool Sands Devon last week.

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Hello, n00b here.

I don't own an Almera, but I had to register to enquire as to the owner of an Almera which caught my eye during my holidays last week. I saw it on the car park behind the shop at Blackpool Sands beach near Dartmouth in South Devon. :)

I'm not particularly au fait with Almeras but I wasn't aware there was ever a Turbo version so a fecking great intercooler poking out from the bumper mouth was pretty eye catching. :D

Am I correct in thinking the Almera came originally with the non turbo SR20? Thus it would be a fairly simple harvest from either 200SX or Pulsar/Sunny GTi-R to DIY an Almera Turbo? Or am I talking borlox and it's actually got a Cossie lump in it? ;)


Drive a Rover Turbo myself. Yes I heard you snigger. ;)
 
Hi & welcome to the AOC. :)

Unlike the N14 GTi-R, there wasn`t an `official` GTi Turbo, but there are a few `D.I.Y projects` out there, look up members Scottb & DBull, a they`ve turbo`d their GTis (Scott is adding the finishing touches to his coversion as we speak). ;)

As for the car in question, did it have white 5 spoke alloys :confused:

If so, iirc, it was a member on here (can`t remember who :O ), & I think he sold it last year.

Someone else will be along soon to give all the details. :)
 
Dazza's GTi turbo, non bodykit, pretty sure its that one from what you described!

There was a red P1 turbo with P2 bumper which was sold to someone in ireland, Dave Bull's current black one, Leigh's blue one (Formerly si2001's and jme_gti's). Theres a supercharged one up north somewhere too.

The one I suspect you saw has a SR20DE engine rebuilt with SR20DET parts, no engine management (!)
 
To be honest I can't remember it having white wheels, that's not to say it didn't though! I was just ambling by, didn't get a chance to stop to ogle it.

How does that work then, running the DE with DET parts but no management? How can it adjust fuelling for the boost? Or is it just set-up as a low blow conversion?

Interesting... Proper sleeper car then really. :)

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Just for those interested really, here's my baby. Original '94 220 GSi Turbo, much like your Almeras it's very popular to turbo convert the 220 Non-turbo. Sadly even though they were very limited build, people keep harvesting them for bubble 200/25 conversions instead of just culling a rotten coupe turbo. :(

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Awaiting rolling road after a gearbox uprate and new clutch - but should see 240bhp. :)
 
im gonna stick me nose in and say that 220 gsi turbz are cool. local lad steve used to have a met blue one, he was knockin on 300 bhp before the block recreated the big bang theory and he went and brought an RX7. thinkin about it his mate phil had a bubble shape TD running 150bhp and about 300 lb/ft :D
 
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im gonna stick me nose in and say that 220 gsi turbz are cool. local lad steve used to have a met blue one, he was knockin on 300 bhp before the block recreated the big bang theory and he went and brought an RX7. thinkin about it his mate phil had a bubble shape TD running 150bhp and about 300 lb/ft :D
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Lol I think he's told you some porkies there. Stafford would be Steve Blakemore, and I knew him well. His GSi T was the same spec as mine and would've been circa 240-250 as 300 is a LOT of work, he sadly sold it a guy who couldn't afford to run it so it sat on a drive for a year, and then sold it to a muppet in Birmingham who trashed it within a week. Been thoroughly abused ever since. he sold it to buy an Evo 6, as I went along as the brains when he picked it up. :)

Phil aka Ultimate Racer I remember from older days, as he and another derv owner were having a competition as to who could get the most from their L series lump, lol.
 
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