golf vr6 with turbo

[forsh]

ok i live in finland but need so help and info on road legal status

at the momoent i have a vw golf 1996 vr6 2.8l

in the future i want to add a turbo,ive found a place that sells a turbo kit for my vr6 fitting its no problem,i just dont know the road legal status here


would my golf with added turbo still be road legal


thanks in advance

chris

[Sebastian]

would my golf with added turbo still be road legal

No.

If you want a streetlegal VR6+turbo:
-more power max.20% (so max.power is 208,8hp)
-expensive emission test (one test ~1000€ in Finland company name VTT,even it fails.It´s also can be done foreign countries,example Germany/TUV etc)

[forsh]

why not?

[Sebastian]

^^so basicly it´s possible to make streetlegal. But its not cheap.

Here is couple VR´s with supercharger but they take charger off before inspection.

Risk of being caught in the street is low but if you drive accident its always option that you are in deep shit.

[forsh]

ok if power isnt more the 20% at time of katsastus,,i could turn the power down,to maybe 1 psi,so its not even powering up really

,do i still need the vtt test



thx for info pal

[Sebastian]

do i still need the vtt test

yes.

[forsh]

i think i maybe rethink about this then,


or maybe i could get the kit and buy a turbo blanking plate and when its time for inspection ,put the plate of and turbo off

chargers are more expensive the turbo kits ive seen


but again thx for you help pal

[Sebastian]

If you decide to do that,I think that many are interested in your project.

Where are you from?

[forsh]

from england ,living in espoo now

[Heikki J.]

If you can find a turbo kit that comes with all the certificates for the emissions (e.g. TÜV) and the power is not more than +20%, then it should be just paperwork... but it may be difficult to find such kit. The basic rule is that your car must fullfill the same emission limits it did when it was new... and you have to show it on a paper (certificate).

They don't measure the power in annual inspection and they don't seem to be even interested. It's just when you first time show your modification, then you need to have all the papers and certificates with you. I believe it's quite common that people get the paperwork done with lower power and retune after the first inspection. It's a bit like with chip tuning, you can't really fail in the annual inspection if the engine is not totally broken.

[Entris]

The Finnish legislation is a bitch when it comes to tuning cars. It's very very restrictive. I hope you can get your car road legal, because there aren't many VR6 Turbos on the road in Finland (less than 10?).

VTT is the Technical Research Centre of Finland and they also do these kind of emissions tests. I haven't heard of anyone actually going to get their car's emissions tested, but an urban legend tells of costs exceeding 1000 EUR (excluding VAT) per test run and you probably need a few runs to fine tune the engine management to get it to pass.