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GTi powered sand buggy !!

Posted: Thu Jan 29, 2009 12:41 am
by 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 !!!! :D

Posted: Thu Jan 29, 2009 8:12 am
by alien
...useless without pics =)

Posted: Thu Jan 29, 2009 4:18 pm
by GRPABT1
I don't know of any GTi cams that will rev to 11000rpm. I think there was a little exageration in that convo.

Posted: Thu Jan 29, 2009 4:34 pm
by zook4fun
custom cams with a lot of load on the seats to rev to 1100 rpm. maybe motor bike valve springs!

Posted: Fri Jan 30, 2009 2:26 am
by 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.