Any specialists who'll fit turbo kit?

As a rule, if a turbo is being fitted to a non turbo car, there are a lot of things to take into consideration, as the compression ratios are different between turbo and no turbo engines. Not to mention the fueling differences,cooling,intercooling,oil feed and the subtle timing differences. Lets also not forget the insurance challenges that may ensue. It could prove economically un viable compared to buying another engine from a scrapper , or getting a scrapper with the desired engine in as you have everything you need in one package. Thats what i would do myself. It might be worth having a nose on a Drift forum to see what they say though.

Appreciate the replies, really £10k? I'd thought somewhere between £3k to £5k but really have very little knowledge.

Yeah, considering just the labour costs, most places are well in excess of £70 per hour, thats where a lot of the money will go. Just 1 day of labour is going to be £560! It does just depend on what you are after and how much you want it really.

that looks interesting, but once VAT,import duties and carriage have taken their toll, its well in to £3k for something with no support in the UK. Even though i have yank cars, most of the bits i need are not that expensive to get in to the country but sometimes even i get caught out.
There is this i found though www.ebay.co.uk/itm/BRAND-NEW-BMW-E30-325-323-6CYL-M3-T3-T4-Turbo-Charger-Kit-81-94-/200664805086?hash=item2eb88deede:g:K-QAAOSw6EhUQP5C

Something else that may make somewhere wary of doing it is the potential for comeback when it goes wrong in some way.

If you are known to them as an existing customer it may make a difference wether they are willing to tackle it or even just do the engineering side of it leaving you to do the final instal (and for you to take responsibility if it goes pop).

Sad state of affairs but you can imagine someone melting down an engine then getting trading standards etc involved, it's just not worth the potential hassle.

Yup, converting an N/A car to a turbocharged one is rarely a cheap or easy process. jimbo200sx can testify that one with his project. Even if you take the engine rebuild kit out of the equation it is still a hell of alot of money.

The *cheap* way to do it would be to source a manifold, turbo, get the exhaust modified and then put on an injector driver like the MF-II 5th Injector kit. However, you would still need to figure out how to retard your ignition enough, and it still would not be that great a setup. Even in parts the bill would not be pleasant (less than £1-2k, but still...).

Sounds like a good plan, and as per my request on the original post does anybody know of anyone who'd fit it?

Glasgow/Edinburgh.

Thanks for that, I'll have a look at them.