Is this possible (to put the WRX turbo onto the 1.8?)

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Jul 9, 2005 | 04:49 PM

Dre2932

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Is this possible.

I was wondering if its possible to put the stock WRX turbo onto a 1.8L GC8 engine?

Jul 10, 2005 | 02:10 PM

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I was wondering if its possible to put the stock WRX turbo onto a 1.8L GC8 engine?

Honestly you can put anything on anything...

if you put a turbo kit on the 1.8L, yes you could put a TD-04 (WRX OEM Turbo) on it.

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Jul 10, 2005 | 07:56 PM

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Thanks. I just finished talking to Paul Eklund of Primitive Racing and he said that he would help me out in getting the turbo on.

Jul 11, 2005 | 04:40 PM

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the true question would be how long your motor would last before you blow it with the boost..

Jul 11, 2005 | 11:45 PM

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Thats true. The thing is I'm going to check if I do a whole rebuild and put all new and upgrade internals in the engine it should be fine.

Dec 16, 2005 | 11:07 AM

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hey you know how i could get my hards on a turbo how would i get my 1.8l internals rebuilt?

Dec 27, 2005 | 01:44 PM

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Thats true. The thing is I'm going to check if I do a whole rebuild and put all new and upgrade internals in the engine it should be fine.

the 1.8 takes boost much better than the 2.5 you can run close to stock wrx boost levels for 10k-20k miles and if/when it does need a rebuild buy 2.0 pistons and rods and bore it out to 2.0 bore

Dec 30, 2005 | 05:39 PM

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paul has done this

his i-club name is View Askew

You can PM him for info, he'd be glad to help

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