I own a Fiat Stilo 1.2 Active. I have been informed that it wears the same engine as the fiat Punto sporting.
My question is as follows. Has any of you who own a Sporting messed about with your engine? If you did, have you seen any results worthy of the trouble?


pantelis
2002 Stilo 80 Active, no alloys, no power tuning, tinted windows, love the sky window though!

That'll be a no.

The 1.2 was so heavily tuned to reach the BHP figure its almost impossible to squeeze anything more out of it. The only way to go it to chip it but don't expect a miracle from your £600.

hmmm.... i guess i should have expected tha. Thanx anyway.

pantelis
2002 Stilo 80 Active, no alloys, no power tuning, tinted windows, love the sky window though!

There must be a market here for something.

In the Mk1 Punto the engine gave 85BHP and there were tuning add ons available when I last looked that would give up to another 10BHP taking the engine to 95BHP without that much trouble.

I can't remember where I saw it and do not have the web page book marked but remember finding a site with a vast amount of tuning equipment for the Punto 1.2 -- up to a complete replacement head and turbo conversion (Cost a fortune).

I think the problem is that companies can make more money by selling cheap to produce bodykits for lots of money, noisy exhausts and air filters that do not make that much difference - but also do not increase the insurance costs.

I suspect that blueprinting, balancing, wilder cams, gasflowed head, purpose built tuned length exhaust manifold, reprogrammed chip, large bore exhaust, free flow catalyst would give more power (if the cams were available) but would cost a lot of money and totally invalidate the warranty, and the thought of letting a FIAT dealer any where near such an engine would keep me awake at night.

An Abarth Stilo would be cheaper and possibly more relaible.

After all a 1960s 1275 Mini Cooper could be tuned to over 100BHP and that starting with a 5 port head and no overhead camshafts.

The engine is not really that highly tuned at less than 65BHP/1000cc.






Stilo Active 1.2 5 Door/ Panda 4X4