Two turbos where the back seats were: Beardy and Rob's £450 Golf
The father-and-son team behind a 1,200 horsepower Corsa have put a 3.2 VR6 in the back of a cheap Mk4 Golf, and the newest episode spends most of its time working out where everything should go.
Twin Engine Corsa
Story of Why this story? The whole channel is running at 111,477 views a day, 5.3 times a normal day (20,886).
A cheap Golf, a busy channel. Twin Engine Corsa drew more than five times its usual daily views, and its two newest uploads, both about the same Mk4 Golf, have each passed 100,000.
The channel is named after a car most builders would call a life's work: a Vauxhall Corsa B that Beardy and his son Rob built from scratch around two C20LET engines, good for a claimed 1,200 horsepower and more than ten years in the making. The new project starts from the other end of the price scale. The Golf cost £450, and the 3.2 VR6 now sits where the back seats used to be, driving the rear wheels, with a twin-turbo setup the titles bill as 1000HP.
"My £450 Golf Is Getting Silly! (TWIN TURBO)" is the patient part of that story. The exhaust from the episode before was only tacked together, so the first job is to strip off the manifolds and the X-pipe and weld every joint all the way round. Then come the wastegates on the Holset-based turbos, and a charge cooler that gets a chapter of more than a quarter of an hour, because, as the description puts it, nobody has built one of these, so there is no right place for anything. It ends with BC Racing suspension made for a car with its engine in the boot, and the Golf finally sitting the way they meant it to.
It does not run yet. A Short from mid-September asked whether we could bring back stupid cars, and this Golf is their answer.
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- Channel
- Twin Engine Corsa
- Subscribers
- 164,000 ▲ 1,000 this week
- Channel views, last 7 days
- 260,309
- Channel views, pace per day
- 111,477 (on a normal day: 20,886)
The numbers
The numbers show a channel running well ahead of its usual pace, with the Golf build at the center of it.
💡 Test your knowledge
Holset, the turbocharger name behind the Golf's turbos, belongs to which company?
Holset turbochargers have been part of the American engine maker Cummins for decades and are best known from diesel trucks.
