1.6L carby to 1.8 turbo GTR engine swap

[Bax]

Hello From Greece

Finally my dream has started to become true...
I'm swapping my 1.6 carburetted engine to a GTR engine...
This is my car now with the old engine removed...



And this is the GTR engine that i found...



Orange injectors and BPC8 stamp underneath the intake manifold convinced me that it is a gtr engine... am I right?



Here is the rear brakes from a 1.8 n/a protege of american origin that I will use to convert my rear drums to disc brakes...


Soon With more pics as we are still waiting the vj-23 turbo and exhaust manifold.

[Bax]

Here you go...

[Bax]

Here are some more pics... No turbo pics though




My new rear and front brakes installed...
You can see one rim of mine...

[MazdaMadness]

WoW! Congrats and greetings from Croatia
Where did you find the engine? And the rear disc brakes?

[MazdaRacer]

Good Stuff!

[Bax]

My mechanic found the engine here in Greece in only 2 days after I gave him the car to do a bp swap...
The rear and front disc brakes are from an protege 1.8 dohc that someone has brought to the shop from abroad (it had usdm bumpers , the long ones you know :D ) and maybe exchanged it for a newer car...
The valve cover also is from that car. The Gtr cover was black coloured . This one is greenish-grey.
What do you think should be replaced in the engine before putting it in my car? The belts have already been replaced.

[Vash00es]

Water Pump

[Bax]

I have changed this one also... :D
Next please.. :D:D:D:D:D

[Bax]

we have installed the engine harness but the dash harness remains the same.
I'll also try and fit the gtr intercooler under my stock bumper for a while retaining the stock look till i manage to get hold of an evo3 bumper made. It will need some cutting though...
I have a 2 inch exhaust fron the catalytic converter. I hope it will be sufficient for the engine as i have read that the stock gtr is 2 inch also...
Everything will be stock at the moment till I will be able to afford a new exhaust and an aftermarket filter.

[Bax]

I want to ask our european friends where i can find the evo3 bumper that corksport has but to buy it from a place in europe.
1-2 years ago i sent an email to ask about the shipping costs and they were 460 usd. The bumper itself costs 339 usd so it isn't the best deal..
Is there a shop in europe that brings the same stuff as corksport?
I have searched for other front bumpers at pakfeifer and other sites but i didn't find anything better.
I have the facelifted model (not the one with the square headlights) and the evo 3 bumper fits soooooooooooooo good..

[MazdaMadness]

Unfortunatlly, you wont find evo bumper here
Could you please post a pic of the car? From pics above i can see only few parts of it . Im looking for face lift model bumpers so i would like to see it once again cuz i cant see those much on the roads here and if i see it, its a 1.7 diesel hehe

[Bax]

It' is not a diesel.
It has a b6 with a 16valve sohc head and carburated.
And that's my car.

[D323]

very nice......

keep us updated.

[MazdaMadness]

2 Bax: did you maybe post on mazda323performance.com quite long time ago, im talking about thread named "my 8000rpm beast" with a video clip inside?

[Bax]

yup... that was me....
www.mazda323performance.com will be the first forum to post the complete set of pics when i will finish as it was the first mazda 323 related forum that i have found some years ago...
:D:D:D:D
I guess that there will be no more 8000rpm attempts now... there's a rev limiter....