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Whale and cat – Autoreview

There is no order in this story
Whatever the word is, it’s a mystery.
Here’s what the story 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 on the road of the dynamometer of the test site, I press the gas … May the force be with the impellers of the Chinese turbocharger TD04, that the French JR5 gearbox withstands this onslaught!

Postal Codewhat do you expect from the supercharged Vesta Sport? At least superiority over the Volkswagen Polo GT sedan. True, a 1400cc Polo engine with a standard IHI RVF3 turbocharger can be pumped with 125hp. up to 180 hp and if you put a more efficient turbine, for example IHI IS12 from Octavia … then 300 hp will not be fancy

On this elegant Vesta, the turbocharger is more modest – the TD04 unit appeared at Mitsubishi Heavy Industries in the 1990s. For example, our 1998 Subaru Impreza GT with Dima Pitersky is equipped with just such a turbine. But on the snail you will not find the initials MHI: it was released in China. Either way, first find the turbine itself.

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

This turbokit, invented by a Samara mechanic known on YouTube as Anton Quiring, is as invisible as possible. Open the hood and at first glance you see nothing related to supercharging, one by one like on the Polo itself. If you remove the decorative cover, the intercooler piping will appear.

And only on the elevator, having thrown the steel protection, can you consider the layout. The position of the turbine is lower, the hot part is literally a couple of inches from the oil filter and is not thermally insulated in any way, which is a bit awkward. The engine remains completely standard except for a thick metal gasket between block and cylinder head which reduces the compression ratio from the standard 10.3: 1 to 9.2: 1. The sprawling manifold for supercharging is made 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 already lose. Otherwise, everything is clean and even elegant – see how precisely the intercooler fits into the front bumper. True, the black paint is already slowly flying around, although this Vesta was only turbocharged a year ago.-

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