Mandatory Read Two -Aussie Turbo In-liners Case study.

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A carb turbo Aussie car again, still with a Stromberg/SU type carb. This car was a 130 mph screamer on a cool day, or a guttless 112 mph struggler on a hot day. It was a stock Dodge Colt, with 2.0 liter version of the 2.6 Slient shaft motor found in the D50 trucks.

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http://www.autospeed.com/cms/A_1790/article.html

Note also the disaster ridden Ford KB Laser Turbo.

see http://www.autospeed.com/cms/A_1084/article.html

Amidst a wave of Cordia, Starion, Charade, ET and EXA turbos, Ford's 'White Lightning' Laser turbo was a fairly tentative toe in the water. The KB Laser turbo - the first serious performance Laser - was a limited build of 300. With its locally-developed draw-through carby turbo system (similar to the set-up used in the Mitsubishi Sigma GH turbo) the fully colour-coded-in-white hatches could hustle to 100 km/h in just over 10 seconds. For a variety of reasons, though, the KB turbo is another car that received limited acclaim - certainly in comparison to the aforementioned turbocars. Available in 3 and 5-door guise, the turbocharged buzz-box was sold only during 1985.

The car was a service night mare, and this was because Ford Oz didn't want to use EFI on the carb turbo engine imported from Toyo Kogyos Tiwan Mazda plant. Sad