This looks like great fun, I had my first go mapping a £500 230k mile a4 130 sport I had as a daily while trying to be kind to the ageing clutch/flywheel etc I kept it fairly standard down lower in the revs and any changes I made where 2400rpm and above while letting it make power up over 5000rpm (fuel was severely tailing off by 3500 ish standard) from memory. It felt great after that, opposite to everything Id felt from other diesels with lumps of torque and no rpm which I hadn't enjoyed in the past. I now have a M57 engined 330d for daily and feel like it would be a brilliant transplant for something a bit lighter, it has that petrol like linear power and instant response.

@fatkev1983

Жыл бұрын

I love the M57 and agree with you on it needing to be in a lighter car. I've had 4 cars with various versions of this engine. An E39 530d auto Touring, E65 730d auto Sport, E90 330d manual, and E91 335d auto Touring. The 730d was the only one that let me down but it was an engine with an sketchy service history and the timing chain snapped at motorway speed on a very hard kickdown... Oddly, the 730d was the only one that was stock! The E39 530d was only mild tuned and felt nice and linear. It was an SE, so it was a big comfy cruiser. Then my E91 330d was tuned as far as it could go with stock turbo and internals and certainly did not have a linear power delivery at all... it was fast then when the turbo was spooled up it hit very hard and went even faster. This sometimes caused the rear end to become unsettled. Obviously the E39 wasn tuned for practicality and economy (as well as power limits of the gearbox) and the E90 was for peak power (with no regard for transmission). Also, different versions of the M57 with very different tuning potentials. Then I got an E91 335d... irony being, even after being tuned, yet again as far as stock turbos and internals can go and with the 700nm limit of the gearbox, it felt slower than the 330d single turbo set up. But, all the numbers proved this to be totally wrong. It was significantly faster. That was because it just delivered usable power from low down all the way to 5000RPM and had no sudden unsettling spike in power. Just keeps building and still pulling strong right up the the rev limit. TLDR: I said it at the very start of this post - I LOVE THE M57!!! And totally agree, it would be a fun engine in a lighter car. I did see someone stick one in a Lotus Type 7... but I would imagine that is way too much torque for such platform. I've also seen an E30 with the 35d engine and manual gearbox conversion with uprated clutch from a 530d manual and that seemed more like it. But, I've always been a fan of M62 powered E30...

This is some fine review Stavros! What a wicked build and insight into the joys of the VAG1.9TDI engine. Big ups from NZ brother.

@StavTech

Жыл бұрын

Thank you!

Came here from your Facebook. Brilliant vid mate.

@StavTech

3 ай бұрын

Thanks!

First the 1.8t 20v, now this. Now I can't make my mind up what I want. Excellent vid, thanks.

@StavTech

2 жыл бұрын

I’m building one of each, diesel daily one and the 1.8T one. Honestly they both awesome, and fun, but in different ways, so fuck it, while these cars are still cheap, I’m having both lol

Fantastic. Lovely review P.S. the tuning company name means Death personified in Greek

I like that he’s done a good job on that be good to see the other when done.

Great little toy that is, sounds awesome too!

Damn, you beat me to building the first Diesel MR2!

Nice, love how much room for bigger turbo and downpipe there is! Also not obnoxiously loud and doesn't roal coal, so hopefully would not attract unwanted attention from the authorities! 😁

@StavTech

2 жыл бұрын

Yeah I hate black smoke, no need and doesn’t look good, so that’s probably my fave thing lol

I've been slowly doing a Vag CUA in to a mk2 sw20 and seeing this again is really making me itchy to play with it

Looks like a great toy to have fun in😆, are you planning going more power in future? , can vouch for Thanatos Tunning too 💯

@StavTech

2 жыл бұрын

Soon put the 100% injectors in and map to suit, which should add another 80-100 bhp. After that, not sure, maybe the 1.8T engine

Mr2 MK3 is Toyotas best kept secret.

w3's usually don't have sloppy gear changes tbh, maybe the bushings and shifter cables were clapped out?

I'm glad other people thought of this swap and I wasn't just the weirdo who wants a diesel mr2

I was thinking of doing a V6 swap but now this is interesting! What's the 0 to 60 figure mate?

@StavTech

2 жыл бұрын

Not sure yet, only time it was tried it was wet and it was in the 5s, but will be filming and timing it again soon so will find out then!

@Shadow1986

Жыл бұрын

How is it only in 5s. Later gen Sw20 turbo stock is 5.4

Great vid 👊

Very nice build that, must be a weapon 😂 What tuner did you use? To get this beast run so good? 🙃

@jonathanross9793

2 ай бұрын

They said they didn’t have a good tuner to continue with 1.9 they had plans for compound :(

@StavTech

2 ай бұрын

Unfortunately we had tuner issues

I know your doing kits, will you be offering drive in drive out conversion for those of us that aren’t capable ??? Thankyou

@StavTech

2 жыл бұрын

He’s considering it

honestly though you would be a really entertaining reviewer...especially if you did a review video of your 940 once its up and running, with a little bit of classic Stav-Flick

Awesome!!!

Thomas Żurawski mr2 is a beast 😁😁

the mapper wants one too! haha

The surge won't be because of the throttle pedal that's the mapping

How come that turbo is surging after you release accelerator? As far as I know, there is no throttle body on diesel and diesel engines are not really know for doing this...

@StavTech

2 жыл бұрын

Diesels can and will still chatter off throttle with enough boost etc. I’ve never really understood it either, but modified ones often do

@RoadsterAlex

2 жыл бұрын

@@StavTech yea ours does this as well also the Cold air intake helps

What kind of anti rollbars are fitted to the car?

@StavTech

2 жыл бұрын

Whiteline

Thanatos is the greek word for death so the name of the company is "Death" Tuning. And you should panctuate the first syllable of the word thanatos. I am guessing the guy is Greek.

@StavTech

2 жыл бұрын

No, he’s actually a Polish guy who’s lived a lot of his life in Iceland.

smoke on a diesel is unburned/partially burned fuel. smoke just means your not burning your fuel properly.

i filmed this 8 months ago. well better late than never :P

@StavTech

2 жыл бұрын

Thomas didn’t want me to publish it until he was ready to sell the kit, as he knew he’d have loads of people asking for it or stealing the idea and selling it themselves, so I left it until now

I'm liking it but what happens at MOT time: petrol car with diesel emissions--great motor 👍

@StavTech

2 жыл бұрын

It’s tested as a diesel

I’ve got those fender flares but they don’t look positioned correctly, they should really be installed higher which yes will cause a gap but that is actually the benefit. You’ll be able to lower it about another 2 inches which I cut my progressive lowering springs and now it handles amazingly. I actually think my mr2 has wider/bigger flares but I also run 245 40 17 tires all around only my wheel offset was calculated better.. they don’t stick out quite as far as that. They are 17x9 +25 wheels but I use a 20mm spacer in the rear so the front wheels are positioned the same as the rear. You could probably do some calculations to actually fit even wider wheels than I’ve got if you don’t mind them sticking out like that. I only wouldn’t use a Diesel engine because you can rev high causing you to be stuck with minuscule sized turbos. If I’m going to go through that effort I’m going to throw in a bigger engine with huge turbos.

@StavTech

2 жыл бұрын

You’re running cut springs while trying to critique every part of the car and sound like an expert. Ok lol

@nobodysfavourite6953

2 жыл бұрын

@@StavTech IT HANDLES AMAZINGLY! 🤣🤣🤣

What’s the weight of this? And any 100-200 times?

@StavTech

2 жыл бұрын

Roughly whatever a standard MR2 Mk3 weighs as what little has been changed is very give and take weight wise. No 100-200, this was just 30-70mph and 60-100mph as that’s times easily compared to tests UK and US car mags have done

Who do I talk to about a kit?

@StavTech

2 жыл бұрын

Zurawski Motorsport. Thomas Zurawski. You’ll find Zurawski Motorsport easiest on Facebook if you have it, though he’s on Instagram or can email him if need be

It’s an awesome swap but it doesn’t look fast in my opinion

@StavTech

2 жыл бұрын

You’ve driven this car?

@RoadsterAlex

2 жыл бұрын

@@StavTech not that one. But I have an k20 turbo mr2 Spyder myself so yeah

@StavTech

2 жыл бұрын

So you’re just flexing you have a faster one lol ffs. Times don’t lie, it’s quick, it’s no K20 Turbo one but nobody said it was.

@RoadsterAlex

2 жыл бұрын

@@StavTech I said the swap is cool but based on the video it doesn’t look “2x as fast”

@driftmonkey3646

2 жыл бұрын

I think it’s just the camera angle or frame rate or something. Doesn’t look fast, but if you go by how slow it looks when he’s says it’s going 70mph at one point then it makes more sense that it just looks slow but is a fast thing.