Of course, the plan from 3 months ago (heh, exactly 3 months ago) has failed, but luckily i'm back in action! So, just an update... Think i've done most of the research needed, and i'm after the 1.2 16v engine from one of the following cars:
- Punto sporting ('97)
- Bravo
- Brava
- Lancia Y
The one scrappy that has the engine has a very bad attitude so i'm not doing any business with them. Luckily, now that exams are over, i'll have enough time to make a few calls and hopefully get the engine soon. Another option is to buy the entire car, grab the engine and sell the rest to the scrappy
The route i have in mind for this conversion is:
Phase I:
Get the engine, do some work on it (refurb and head work). Get megasquirt, solder it all together and bench test it. Get some lower springs and shocks (it's about time to do the shocks anyway). At the end of this phase, i should have most of the parts ready and so the second phase could be done in a week or two.
Phase II:
Put everything in the car and make it work properly, using most of the parts i already have.
Phase III:
Turbo it (yeah, easier said than done). I found it interesting that people would rather turbo an 8v engine than a 16v engine, so i feel like i'll be doing something a little bit different (although i hear it's been done before, and successfully). Will need a way to decompress the engine slightly ("slightly" needs to be calculated first), new manifolds, de-cat (not only because of the power gain, but because i'll need space for the turbo
), oil cooler and intercooler (temperatures in the summer go up to 40 degrees celsius). My aim would be around 100-110 HP, which i believe is reasonable with low-to-mid boost. I could achieve the same thing the N/A way too so i don't think it will need high boost, and should be fairly reliable.
If anyone is interested, i'm not in the mood for any styling experiments like spoilers, blue lights all over (and under, hehe) the car and so on. The only thing i'll probably do is fix a few minor dents my dad made when parking it and paint it black. Maybe i'll need to roll the arches slightly so that some 14" 195s can fit, haven't read up on it enough though, so it's just a thought. It will look as stock as possible from the outside.
Since i'm a student, my biggest problem is actually time (been saving some money for this for a while), so i can expect the pauses between individual phases to be even 1-2 months (yeah, uni is more important
). Hope this won't be another dreamer project, and hopefully this time next year i'll be driving a 1.2 16v Seicento turbo
All comments are more than welcome, i'd like to hear any ideas that you might have, as they've all been interesting so far.
Oh, and yes, i'd like to thank you all for being very helpful in the past year and a half
A forum where people don't flame each other is sort of rare nowadays. I'd also like to thank people like kritip and others who have done such conversions and made their pics and thoughts available to others, it's a huge help.
EDIT: Could a mod rename this from "Engine swap, 16v question" to "My sei 16v project"?
Thanks