best place to get work done to a gtt?

[slydina]

hey, i'm just woundering if anyone can help me out with pointing me in the rite derection to getting a garage who has or knows what there doing when it comes to doing work on a caldina gtt and also what would be the best way off spending my money on my car to get more power out of it. i'm based in invercargill.

chur

[AJz]

Can't really help with where to go in invers but.....

How much do you want to spend ?

Is the car under warranty ?

If you have a bit of cash lying around to spice things up a bit a full exhaust system including new downpipe would be the go. That and replace the factory panel filter with a K&N or something else good quality.
Pod filters only work well on these if they are fed ALOT of cold air, as with any car really.

Personally i wouldn't play with the boost as you will find the new exhaust system will jump the boost up 1psi mabey 2.

Have a search through here and you will find its not uncommon for these to go pop if they run 18+ psi daily and don't get good fuel etc. 98octane is your friend if its avail in invers

Mine has similar done to whats above and tbo its got enough guts as it is.

If you wanted to go further a better turbo, front mount (factory top mount heatsoaks bad) and new exhaust manifold would go down a treat.

Apart from that. Go the Wags!!!!

[bbq1988]

Lower it and stick it to the ground with some nice tyres. Exhaust, and cold air box (if done right)

[slydina]

hey thanks for that, should off added in what i've done so far, i've got a poddy and bov, but see your comment about keeping the factory filter would of been good idea, is there anyway off getting the poddy to always get cold air? (sorry i'm a real amature with this kidder stuff ) got it lowered an on 18s.

car isn't on warranty an got about 4k that looking at spending on the mota.

i see your in dunnerz, there anywhere you know off up your way?

chur

[xsspeed]

build a cold air box around the pod and duct air from below the headlight to it, pretty sure there'll be a thread about that somewhere on here.

4k huh, id look at coilovers if you dont have them already, otherwise maybe ecu anew ecu and tune, not too sure when it comes to gtt's tho sorry.

as mentioned above front mount IC seems to be the way to go, but i cant back that up.

otherwise i guess you're looking larger turbo, which i guess you'll need a new ecu for anyway. starts to get a bit expensive, especially if you t hen decide to upgrade the internals.

Love wagons with balls!