Epic Airtrek

[Slinz]

Came across this while trawling the endless crap on the net, not sure if it's been posted before but the thing is pretty awesome.

http://forums.evolutionm.net/other-cars/294314-my-airtrek-turbo-gt3540r.html

 

[Nitephyre]

Wow, not bad for an Outlander

 

[Slinz]

Yeah no joke! 11.93 down the strip on 91 octane :/

 

[leebutts]

* wishes he could have talked his wife into a turbo airtrek *

 

[naughtika]

why use 4 cylinder when you can use a v6 with twin turbos?

If I had an outlander, that's what I'd do.. 6A13TT manual transmission AWD using VR4 hardware..

but none the less.. its still awesome..

 

[Slinz]

Yeah somewhere in the thread they mention the idea of dropping the 6a13 in with its auto box as well, I guess he wasn't keen on manual at all :/. I would definitely have one!

 

[CLuTZ]

Yeah no joke! 11.93 down the strip on 91 octane :/

That is 91 octane MON, not RON like you get in NZ and Aus. 91 MON = 98 RON

Yeah somewhere in the thread they mention the idea of dropping the 6a13 in with its auto box as well, I guess he wasn't keen on manual at all :/. I would definitely have one!

Airtreks don't come out in Manual

 

[Slinz]

Airtreks don't come out in Manual

Yeah, pretty sad haha. But what I meant was that he was talking about doing a huge overhaul and plopping a 6a13 + w5a51 straight out of a VR4 into the Airtrek - I assume that if he can do this he can also modify to fit a 6a13 + manual box? Probably a whole bunch more work though.

 

[ygoslo]

why use 4 cylinder when you can use a v6 with twin turbos?

If I had a quintillion billion dollars that's what I'd do to a VR4. Bin the 6A13 & fit a mental 4G63. I guess the answer to your question is "because you want easy power".

 

[bradc]

That shape Airtrek did come out in manual 4G63T guise in europe.

Tim, surely though if you had heaps of money you would go for a pair of garrett's and forged internals and enjoy an extra 0.5 litres and smoothness from the V6

 

[Slinz]

That shape Airtrek did come out in manual 4G63T guise in europe.

Tim, surely though if you had heaps of money you would go for a pair of garrett's and forged internals and enjoy an extra 0.5 litres and smoothness from the V6

This! If you had fairly limitless money the V6 would still probably make similar power but in a more street friendly driveable way

 

[ygoslo]

Nope, I'm too fond of the idea of being unaustralian and swapping out a 6 for a 4. And when you consider the weight saving, the ease of power production, the huge supply of aftermarket bits etc, it makes a lot more sense to go with a 4G if you have the budget to do the conversion.

I think it makes almost as much sense as an RB20->SR20 conversion.

 

[bradc]

There isn't much weight saving at all. The UK and NZ new 8G's were sold with the 4g63 and 6a13, there is 20kg weight difference.

 

[ygoslo]

Certainly not as much as I'd have expected, but still nothing to be sneezed at. If you combined that with lightweight wheels, lightweight seats and carbon and fibreglass body parts you'd be edging up towards a 50kg weight saving, which if you were building a part-time track car would be quite significant.

The difference would probably be marginally more when you added aftermarket turbos & intercooler/intake piping too I guess.

 

[Slinz]

Wow 20 kg? I certainly would have expected more than that as well. You can get those sorts of weight losses by wearing lighter shoes and a thinner jacket

 

[bradc]

And eating less pies

 

[Slinz]

And not quite filling up your tank

 

[bradc]

My VR-4 is actually very very light. With me in it and about 50L of fuel it was 1600kg exactly. I'm 80kg and the petrol would have weighed about 36kg. If I had my Weds on I would have saved another 6kg and I think another 5 kg or so should be saved from removing the MMCS stuff when I eventualll get there. I have a sunroof too, so it shouldn't be particularly light.

 

[Slinz]

Yeah I yanked out all the Jap computer gear and wiring when I did the stereo install - looked like they had a TV receiver in the boot for some reason and a 2-way radio in the front. Ended up losing over 10kg of crap through that... Which became pointless after all the stereo bits went in. Sigh.

 

[CLuTZ]

4G63 > 6A13TT

Getting back on topic though,

http://www.mmc.org.nz/forum/viewtop...69917&hilit=airtrek+manual+conversion#p469917