GTi powered sand buggy !!

[moose]

went to portland on the weekend ....
camped near some ppl with sand buggies ,
1 had a rover 3.9 efi .....
the other had a 1.3 GTi motor !!
now the tech in this thread is ...........
he had weber manifolds on it , BUT had the 4 throttle bodies from the toyota motor bolted to it !!
cant remember wat ECU he was running , but when he used to compete , he would rev it out to about 11,000 rpm !!!
now that its just a toy , detuned it , now only revs to about 8,000rpm !!!

but man o man , it farkin fly,s !!! that is alll !!!!

[alien]

...useless without pics =)

[GRPABT1]

I don't know of any GTi cams that will rev to 11000rpm. I think there was a little exageration in that convo.

[zook4fun]

custom cams with a lot of load on the seats to rev to 1100 rpm. maybe motor bike valve springs!

[GRPABT1]

You would have pistons and rods give out at those kind of revs, and the parts are not available other than custom. So either you spent bulk on a motor for little gain when you could use a bigger motor or like I said you exaggerate.