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Are there any modifications that can be considered to boost the power from a 999 Fire engine, nothing too major but a few extra BHP would be good?

Just considering this now as the head gasket has blown and I need to take the top half of the engine off and it seems like a good opportunity to tweak a few things if it might help.
 

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You could try porting but I doubt that will give you any noticeable gains.


4x4 cam? :confused:
 
Injection or carb? If injection, a bigger throttle body should help.

Otherwise, consider plopping a bigger FIRE engine in -- 1242 Punto 8v, perhaps. I'd imagine (but what do I know?) that on a 4x4 you really want/need the torque, so increasing capacity is the easiest way.
 
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It's a carb... OP was asking "while I'm changing the head gasket" not "while I'm taking the engine out along with the wiring and losing my header tank as well as half my heater box"

It has been done on a 4x4 ......not in an afternoon though. Check the build by "crashtest"
 
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Agree with all of the above. In the course of changing the head gasket there is little you can do to give a whorthwhile gain for your efforts. Porting and polishing is the obvious choice, skim the head a little, even have larger valves fitted from a Punto. You could add to this a better exhaust manifold and re-jet the carb + a K and N filter and Magnecor plug leads. This is all expensive and time consuming, in the end you may end up with an extra 10bhp so just not worth the effort I'm afraid.
 
OK, I get the point about the engine swap -- is the Panda engine bay really that much smaller than a Cinq one?

Obvious things are pure maintenance -- get the poor old engine working as it ought to: cut the valves in, check valve clearances, re-shim. Costs pence, and the seal at the valves is probably the most important in the engine in terms of performance.
 
I'd be wary of adding too much torque with a larger engine if you ever do an engine swap - I'm by no means sure that the 4x4 box can handle all that much power without destroying itself. Probably the 1108cc unit in carb form will be the limit.
 
A 10 bhp gain on a 45bhp engine would be noticeable wouldn't it? 22% . A lot of work though, and not likely to set Santa Pod alight I suppose !
What difference does a 4x4 cam make in a 2wd 999cc engine?
 
I was watching an old Top Gear the otherday, they were pratting about with an Avantime trying to improve the lap time.
After spending money on brakes, tyres, splitters, throwing out weight the biggest improvement to BHP came with a relatively simple service!
They wasted 9 grand!!!
 
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cheekylittlescamp said:
I was watching an old Top Gear the otherday, they were pratting about with an Avantime trying to improve the lap time.
After spending money on brakes, tyres, splitters, throwing out weight the biggest improvement to BHP came with a relatively simple service!
They wasted 9 grand!!!
Click to expand...

And it caught fire iirc. :p
 
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