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| posted on November 30th, 2012 at 08:02 PM |
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My latest flat four vehicle purchase :-)
Hi all,
I guess I should let you all know about my latest purchase. I recently sold the fuel sucking HSV 6L and bought another car sporting one of our good
ole flat four engines with turbo.
Will let the photos tell you a bit more and show the mods I have already done.
First photo: Prior to pickup
Then I purchased this:
Then had the car performance tuned by KiDo Racing.
See and read here http://forum.liberty.asn.au/viewtopic.php?f=63&t=16602&sid=43b7acd9c2ad2d19a6dc6ddbe2b90dea if you are interested.
And now it is sitting lower to the ground:
I must say, I love driving a turbo car again  
And I can now understand why so many want to put one of these little flat four beauties into an old VW 
Kev
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| posted on November 30th, 2012 at 08:08 PM |
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Don't these use almost as much fuel as a V8 though? Especially when you've got your foot in it. My Aunt drives a non-turbo Forester from about
2008-ish, and it uses more fuel than my WB Holden ute, despite having two less cylinders and 25 years of technological development!
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| posted on November 30th, 2012 at 08:13 PM |
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So after you pull the motor and put it in the Beetle you could really be different and put the Beetle motor in the Liberty Now theres an upgrade for ya!!!!
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| posted on November 30th, 2012 at 08:36 PM |
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will it be me off the mark with my R? 
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| posted on November 30th, 2012 at 08:54 PM |
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wameman - I have gone from using an average of 17L per 100kms, down to 11.3L per 100kms. The performance tune also is leaner than factory tune, so I
guess that also helps and in my books, that is a big saving.
DubbyDo - The VW would then be perfect, but I'm sure I would be at a bit of a loss in the Suby 
Paul - "will it be me off the mark with my R?" I guess you mean will it beat you off the mark and I think we should try and find out Rembering you drive a poofy auto with a computer that assist the bad
driver in launching And mine is a manual and takes more skill
Have a good weekend all, Kev
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| posted on November 30th, 2012 at 09:49 PM |
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11.3l/100km is very good! I think the new ones are a lot better on fuel than the older ones. As I said, my Aunt's 5 year old non-turbo Forester is
about 14-15 litres/100km.
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| posted on November 30th, 2012 at 10:43 PM |
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Have driven one of these! Amazing cars!
Enjoy Kev
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| posted on November 30th, 2012 at 11:06 PM |
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Just had the naturally aspirated version (2.5l) from Thrifty for the last 2 weeks, had some go (My usual ride is an 80 series Cruiser ). Would love to see the difference of the turbo version
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| posted on December 1st, 2012 at 05:36 AM |
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| Quote: | Rembering you drive
a poofy auto with a computer that assist the bad driver in launching
And mine is a manual and takes more skill
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i thought they were manuals with 2 electronic clutches
Good on you for keeping the old school thing going though how is the hand crank starting in the morning ? or have you got a new fangled starter motor?
Keeping it real !
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| posted on December 1st, 2012 at 06:34 AM |
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Kev, I hope it's not one of those Subarus that won't go over 100 kph, and gets stuck in the RH lane on the freeway.
I'd rather wear a Beetle out by racing it than by polishing it!
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| posted on December 1st, 2012 at 07:04 AM |
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| Quote: | | Quote: | Originally
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Rembering you drive a poofy auto with a computer that assist the bad driver in launching And mine is a manual and takes more skill
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i thought they were manuals with 2 electronic clutches
Good on you for keeping the old school thing going though how is the hand crank starting in the morning ? or have you got a new fangled starter motor?
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Well they are electronic controller manuals with duel clutch
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| posted on December 1st, 2012 at 08:26 AM |
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Well they are electronic controller manuals with duel clutch
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Does this mean you have two clutch pedals  Oh, that's right that don't even have one clutch pedal That means automatic lol
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| posted on December 1st, 2012 at 10:12 AM |
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our V6 4wd Hilux get about 10/11 L per 100
subi bug 7.7 per 100 
You still better off now then owner a bomadore .
Beats me why people buy V8s when small fours perform so much better.
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| posted on December 1st, 2012 at 10:22 AM |
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| Quote: | Originally
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Well they are electronic controller manuals with duel clutch
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Does this mean you have two clutch pedals Oh, that's right that don't even have one clutch pedal That means automatic lol
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bring it on Camo we will see
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| posted on December 1st, 2012 at 11:55 AM |
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you boys better watch out for the boys in blue , they like to pull up a couple of boy racers and defect their hotted up and lowered cars
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| posted on December 1st, 2012 at 12:28 PM |
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Congrats on the new car ...........now you can come and play at
WSID on Wednesday nights 
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| posted on December 8th, 2012 at 09:30 AM |
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| Quote: | Originally
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Kev, I hope it's not one of those Subarus that won't go over 100 kph, and gets stuck in the RH lane on the freeway.
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Hi Greg,
I can assure you if I am doing 100kmph and in the right lane, I am still in 2nd gear and in the process of going to 3rd and passing others
Don't jump on me for this, but it even makes me think about going to the dark side in my Beetle 
Kev
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| posted on December 8th, 2012 at 05:28 PM |
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now your talking
you can make a real nice ride by just adding a stock ej20t with the added bonus of air conditioning, low maintenance
and fuel saving .
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