Stilo My Stilo

[punto_matt]

Yeah i bought a copy Feature looks good hope your happy with it What lump you putting in?

 

[Tris Harris]

nice one! I'll buy my first copy in about 3 years to have a look lol

what engine?!

 

[blu73]

please please please be 20vt coop engine!! lol

 

[punto_matt]

Why?

 

[blu73]

powerful, takes to tuning well, 300bhp is realisticly possible, sounds awesome.

How many reasons you want?

 

[punto_matt]

Heavy, old, needs complete suspension custom made on the front for the extra weight, will have massive negative effects on the handling of the car. Newer, lighter, more tuneable engines out that are alot lot better than a coupe engine.

 

[danhans115]

Bet its a 1.4 16v.

anything but the 1.2 / 1.4 would be a nightmare to get going electrics wise

 

[blu73]

this is all true but it'd still be cool, i'd hardly call stilo's good handlers anyway. I'm not arguing with you here or anything.. I just love that engine, its noise it makes my knees go all wobbly lol

 

[punto_matt]

I think its old and past it with much better stuff out there for engine swaps. dropping a 20vt in is gonna take the same amount of work as dropping in something from a different car as everything is gonna have to be custom made anyway.

 

[blu73]

yes your right.. i know.

but you shouldn't just write off something cause theres new stuff out there. I'm a bit biased, i like old skool engineering, i don't understand all this fancy electronic stuff properly and much prefer playing with claasic mini's and beetles and stuff like that. But people continually messing with a design and perfecting it brings about as much advance in technology as people like VAG who make a new engine everytime you read something about them.

I would get more of a kick knowing my engine was running just so than stick something in that would do the same job but could be better, if that makes sense

 

[Adrian Bravo]

dropping a 20vt in is gonna take the same amount of work as dropping in something from a different car as everything is gonna have to be custom made anyway.

Thats not true every physical part you need would be off the shelf from Fiat, electrics would be the dificult part, especialy with the CAN bus. There is a Stilo 2.4 Abarth and that uses the same block as the 20vt. So engine mounts, drive shafts, gear box, and all the stuff will be off the shelf on the 20vt.

An engine from a different car, say a Renault Clio 1.0 would need all custom stuff to make it fit.

 

[danhans115]

I know what you mean, I would love nothing more than to see a 2.0 20vt stilo, or even better a 2.4 20vt stilo, or even an Alfa 3.0 V6 shoehorned in there.

The problem is all the ECU's in the car. The greek guys have done some 2.4 engine swaps but they swap everything over into a new shell. There will be a time when someone finally works out how to integrate a different ECU into the CAN network, and the body computer accepting it, but its just not at the moment.

Yellowstilo has done some great research into various things with the Stilo CAN/diagnostics etc, and if we can get more people interested in that side of the car then who knows, it may be possible in the near future..

EDIT: theres about 4 new posts since I started typing this lol

 

[grande bolt]

Alright mate. Got the max power mag car looks great

 

[blu73]

someone scan the feature

 

[smokeyjoe03]

someone scan the feature

Going back to work in 5 mins but I have that copy of max, car looks great and can even see the FF sticker on the rear window.

I'll scan it in if thats allowed


also we are 14th in the UK car club table :slayer:

 

[coyle]

someone scan the feature

yes! someone scan it lol coz ive still not seen it

 

[AcerJak]

someone scan the feature

Hurry lol!
I would love to see the feature!

Edit:
I found part of the feature...

http://www.maxpower.co.uk/article.asp?asset=10297&p=7

 

[punto_matt]

Just go and buy it you tight bastards.

 

[blu73]

sorry not spending money on a max power just for 1 feature, i stopped buying it when i was a spotty teenager for good reason.. Its rubbish!!! If it had been in a mag that isn't shocking then i'd have just bought it. On top of that i'd just feel too embarassed to buy one.

And yes, i'm a tight fisted bastard, i'm from yorkshire, what do you expect lol.

 

[LukeM]

what size are the wheels mate?