Hey all u cing lot, not ust 2 being in this part of the forum but was told to check you guys out 4 advice on tuning a 1242 fire engine and just wana know what can be done to them and what figures im looking at, both performance and financial. Cheers

Try searching there are loads of tuning threads.

It also is a bit of an open ended question as it depends what your budget and end goal is

Better try the Punto forum seeing as your motor is out of a Punt.

frenchwood said:

Better try the Punto forum seeing as your motor is out of a Punt.

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No the guy is in the right place,

the punto guys have the advantage of having ready built Turbo's etc so I reckon the cento's mob probably know more tricks about extracting power as our choices are more limited

Same engine after all

I agree to an extent... but remember that any Cinq owner who has a 1200+ engine has already done a mass improvement... the guys in the Punt forums probably want "More" for the 1242 FIRE!!

I didn't want to get into an argument about this but... frenchwood I thought you had been around here long enough to know that any mods that work on the 1108 will also work just as well and sometimes better on the 1242 as for wanting more from the FIRE engine I rekon the cento guys are the people that have managed to get the most out of it so far as we don't have any easy alternative!!

are you suggesting that the cinq section should only help punto owners with a 55 engine and not the 60?

for tuning any FIRE engine this section is a good place to start there are lots of people with plenty of experience and plenty of tuning threads (just look at arc's current one for example), it has a good reputation and isn't totally dominatated with "will these wheels fit" and "look at my neon's" post as some are.


As I said in my first post it helps though when asking the questions if you give a bit more information as to what you are actually looking for

eg I want to get a 1242 to put out 100bhp what is it likely to cost me and what do i need to do (although if you use the search you could find that out and then pm arc )

or I have £700 to spend to tune a 1242 what would the money best be spent on and do you have any recomendations where to source the parts?

frenchwood said:

I agree to an extent... but remember that any Cinq owner who has a 1200+ engine has already done a mass improvement... the guys in the Punt forums probably want "More" for the 1242 FIRE!!

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I'm a Punto owner 1242 8v and I've spent more time (and gained more assistance) regarding engine mods on this section than on the Punto side. Punto owners with the 1.2 1.1 engines generally tend to be less interested in the greasy bits and more interested body mods. The erm 'saner' people in this section tend to 'play' more with the engine 1.2 and 1.1. On the Punto section and certainly on PSC you'll tend to hear, don't bother buy a gt, yawn. Do a search under something you're interested in and follow your nose. May I suggest a Mkcritch chip in a 55 ecu (cost around £60) with the 866 (75cam) followed by a modified air filter? :yum: Leave the exhaust till last (unless yours falls off) and buy a supersprint cat back system. Mkcritch and cam will give, conservatively, 10bhp prob more. Air filter ? So many and tbh your looking at around 5hp from a gsr. Finally a supersprint exhaust, ssprint list 8bhp on the 16v 1.2 with their decat so reckon on half that for yours say an optimistic 4bhp. You've spent, you can research that, you'll gain around 20bhp making a 55 around 75 ish maybe. Oh and I've done all this and I fished most of the facts out on this section of the forum. And there's more, tb...nitro....421 exhaust, lots of fun!

with regards to exhausts, the punto 75 exhaust i beleive is a 421 exhaust unlike the punto60. so if you have an spi punto, its worth hunting the stock exhaust manifold and down pipe from a scrapped 75

I'm not on here to argue.. it was a SUGGESTION only!