Toyota Vios Turbo charged

Toyota Vios Turbo charged

Yes, one more... this one slightly different. Initially, sam thought this car only needs some fine tuning, then ended up fixing up some rusty old turbo...

Car was done up in truely asia, car came with a old old turbo, like grandma trying to run marathon and running out of breath too early, then saw the wires are totally trashed. hahaha... Even the previous mechanic also end up not picking the phone... hahaha ok ok, fark the past. Here's what we did, replace the turbo with a working one, clean up the wirings, fix up the emanage blue settings, fix up the normal driving.

The car now runs clean with much lesser fuel during day-to-day driving, the crusing boast extremely good fuel consumption, which in-turn will pay itself overtime for the money spent fixing. Fuel economy can be up to 50% improvement. Its like you spent maybe 1000 bucks, then every month petrol say 900 bucks, you will save 450 bucks per month. Over 2 months, all the petrol money saved can pay off the initial bill itself.

Power wise, hahaha, now boosting at the current setup's limits. 0~100 should be in the 7seconds region while good high end turbo power. Turbo spools up very strongly at 3000 rpm, full boost at 3500 rpm. Vios is famed for it light chasis of 950 kg, VVTi technology, and its FWD, this 3 factors itself will give the stock ride a 0~100 in 9.5 secs. With the turbo installed, this ride not only shaves off 2 seconds off the century sprint, it also transforms this ride into a quarter mile car. The 0~160 is impressive and would give a similar performance as that of a stock wrx. Hitting 200 km/h on a turbo charged vios is easy. Its now left to the driver's discipline and skill to control the new found power.

Fixing up this ride is challenging. As compared to a stock condition vios, this ride arrives as a puzzle. We didnt know what happened in the past and what was causing the car to flood with fuel even in normal driving. The frustrating frequent stalling and sluggish boosts can only be compared to a abnormal NA car. And to be able to diagnose this ride accurately and fix it up in 4 to 5 days, I would give myself a pat on the back.hahaha :)

As the owner of this ride, I would feel a good sense of satisfaction. In car modification, it not always doing it right the first time, it sometimes means getting a car that sucks mega big time, and fixing it to what he thinks it should be. Research and reading up will give you a head start on what needs to be done. Some of the things we fix up is the close-loop tuning, bov, turbo, boost controller, ignition system etc... :), We fix up the idling to be stable at 600 rpm, also fix up those back-firing and stallings... and many many more la...

The first tuning is to clear those carbon buildup in the exhaust system :) we were like optopus on the loose lor... hahaha, looking at the rear mirror and seeing cars siam you is damn funny lor... next time should install camera to capture those moments hahahaha...

Some big achievements on this ride would be the improvement of FC by 50%, increasing the horsepower by 40++ bhp, increasing the longevity of the engine.

Shiok la, you take something shitty and turn it to something golden, now sitting on a proper stage 3 setup. No more optopus...

Whats next? Practise and more practise, possible to the tracks to polish up those corners...

This ride comes with boost controller, front mount intercooler, big injectors, wrx turbo, open pod filter and all controlled using greddy emanage blue. Engine is stock 1.6L 1NZ-Fe.

Verdict:
This ride is slightly different from the norm, you basically send in an optopus and turn it into gonzilla. hahaha... good la.