Micra Super Turbo

[Muad_dib77]

Did anybody try one of these?
http://www.carfolio.com/specifications/ ... ?id=132715

[Nutjob]

Seen one and know a guy who owned one once.

Theres a few people i know including myself would kill to find one.

My first car was a 1.0 version of one of these and trust me theres nothing scarier than driveling a 1000cc micra at 70mph


I was young an crazy back then though

[Muad_dib77]

Yeah was reading about them - apparently driving one is a bit like russian roulette..

Part of me wants to try....the micra..

[Sebastian]

i saw one of these in NI when i was at BishopsCourt Dragracing .. quite a car on the drag strip

last year i owned a 98 automatic micra/march twin cam 16valve
.. at 120km/h u say nothing can stop u u feel like the engine will jump from unther the bonnet .
mad. it was expensive on the fuel .. 10L / 100 km (with my stile of driving)
i used to call her the rocket LOL

[tin tin]

i want 1 of thoses i had a k10 micra for my 1st car put a custom sound system in it



bit messy but for my very 1st attempt i liked it though made the boxes my self and fited the carpit

[Muad_dib77]

Jesus TinTin - did you not have to strengthen the chassis to support that??

[Nutjob]

K10 aggghhh.

Did you notice the doors used to rattle as the chassis changed shape while cornering them hard.

I'm getting all misty. But then again im kinda glad/lucky i lived through it and got sense.



Small few fact:

-The Micra St was actually longer in the engine bay to fit the engine. So you couldn't actually get an st engine and put it in a standard micra k10.

-Also there was a turbo only version

-The engine capacity was decreased to coply with Japaneses group b regulations so technically a k10 998cc is a bigger engine if you ignore the fact its running two compressors that is

[tin tin]

Jesus TinTin - did you not have to strengthen the chassis to support that??

the wood holding the amps wher screwed strat in to the metal bit sorporting the back seet then the spacer wood bars then the amps cos i had leds bed hind the amps and where i painted/sprayed the wood it shined really well behind it

the sub boxes were just l shap mdf but cut out to fit the plastic body paneling then coverd in carpit very loud micra

[Wildhound]

There's actually a Micra Turbo up on Carzone at the moment. I know it's not an ST, but still pretty nifty no doubt.

Take a look: http://www.carzone.ie/usedcars/index.cfm?fuseaction=Car&carID=615319&message=You%20searched%20for%3A%20Nissan%20Micra%2C%20Year%3A%201990%2E%20Your%20search%20returned%20one%20vehicle%2C%20which%20is%20shown%20below%2E&CFID=15167111&CFTOKEN=89536513

[Myfeckin FTO]

......Part of me wants to try....the micra..

I hope you were wearing your sarcasm hat!
1litre turbo or not - I reckon that yokes gonna be a dog to drive!

Presume its the same 1litre turbo engine they put into the Figaro - http://www.carzone.ie/usedcars/index.cf ... rID=553406 - mad money for these horrid looking cars.

[Mustang]

Surely a charade GTI or starbo would be a better proposition? A friend of mine used to have a late 80's early 90's jap import march 1L. When you turned on the a/c the whole car would shake

[Muad_dib77]

Ah those little cars are all the same - I was merely wanting to try the Micra for the danger factor..
Have owned a couple of charades - not GTTIs but I can safely say that they have crap handling.

[Nutjob]

......Part of me wants to try....the micra..

I hope you were wearing your sarcasm hat!
1litre turbo or not - I reckon that yokes gonna be a dog to drive!

Presume its the same 1litre turbo engine they put into the Figaro - http://www.carzone.ie/usedcars/index.cf ... rID=553406 - mad money for these horrid looking cars.

You dont know how tempted i am to take a day off work and go buy it if its clean

[Wildhound]

I think that's the best a Micra's ever looked tbh.

[Myfeckin FTO]

You dont know how tempted i am to take a day off work and go buy it if its clean

What - This car ???- http://www.carzone.ie/usedcars/index.cf ... N=89536513

A 1990 Micra turbo for €4K???? - If I was in the market for a cheap turbo'd runabout it would have to be a Charade GTTi or (I didn't ever think I'd say this) a Glanza -
http://www.carzone.ie/usedcars/index.cf ... rID=674314 - Personally not my thing - but I've driven a couple of these and I can see why any younger guy would want one over a normal hatchback but the Micra is just too old school - Hot hatches have come a long way since the Micra turbo roamed the earth.

If I was looking for a cheap hot hatch - it would have to be along this line - http://www.carzone.ie/usedcars/index.cf ... rID=687125 - Cyborg - great performance and handling for the money.

But if I had 5K-7K in my pocket I'd buy an FTO - NO comparison really.

[Nutjob]

Yes i know its mad completely mad.

The only thing stopping me going down there and buying it is i do allot of miles and couldn't do it to a car i wont be able to get parts for.

[Myfeckin FTO]

.......The only thing stopping me going down there and buying it is i do allot of miles and couldn't do it to a car i wont be able to get parts for.

That would only be the start of your problems - i wouldn't like to maintain a turbo AND a supercharger + various ancillaries with little or no chance of getting parts but the biggest problem I see with the car is that its still based on an ancient Micra platform that wasn't designed to handle any amount of power - as you previously mentioned it has no structural rigidity worth mentioning plus a beam rear axle and rear drum brakes.
If anything went wrong with it you wouldn't be able to repair it and you wouldn't be able to sell it on. Its a "Curio" - would make for an interesting drive for about 5 mins of understeer city - and the novelty of the early day Jap engine tech but thats where I'd loose interest.