Btw, i had a look, on that ledge mine doesn't have an engine code on that ledge above the water pump. I'm 99% sure it's a 1.2 now tbh. I think the car it came from (i'm assured was reg'd was 100% a 1.4 on the logbook) has had an engine change at some point and whoever they bought that from has removed it to sell as a 1.4. It's certainly not a recent thing that's been done, the block has the usual light brown corrosion look there. I got it very, very cheap for a 1.2 16v, would have been a steal as a 1.4... so i don't mind as long as it's a good runner, and the breakers assure me it is, but then they thought it was a 1.4 too, so what do they know? :laugh:
We'll see
As said before when i first suspected this... it MAY work to my advantage in terms of ease of setting it up. Whilst the 1.4 is outright more powerful, it would have been running on 1.2 16v ecu and most likely 1.2 injectors at first.
I have mk1 sporting head and cams to fit, so all in i should be running close-ish to 85bhp, with the mk1 ecu, 1.6 tb, induction and freer flowing exhaust setup i should probably be nudging over 90 brake cleanly out the box with the potential for another few bhp later down the line on a nicer ex manifold and general tuning. Might have been 10bhp more with the 1.4, but really to get the best from that (1.2 ecu seems to cause fueling issues and some hesitation low down), it would have needed a standalone ecu such as megasquirt or emerald mapped. What little i may have lost in outright power i'll have gained a little in drive-ability lower down, and a couple more mpg to boot
Anyway, plan is to "fit" the engine tomorrow... i still don't have a gearbox, but i'm going to fit the engine and rebuild it in the car because i'm stuck for floorspace. I'll bolt the bottom end in with the Drivers side mount tomorrow, put a block of wood under the sump and support it on an old honda alloy i have in the garage
