well its hard to find them and from what i have heard there isnt much difference.
well its hard to find them and from what i have heard there isnt much difference.
I has one, And it will be for sale soon.
what are the differences?
Inlet ports.
the x16xe has imob crap built into the ecu, you need a transducer and matching chip key thingy to the ecu,
Basicaly the C16 is slighty older and has about 6 (iirc) more bhp and slighty more torque (barly any tho).
Put it this way, My one has been great, once i got to the bottom of the running problem (which was a baxter'd ecu) its great. As long as you get one with all the bits (dont forget the imobliser pickup around the barrel and the chip inside the key) then there great.
yes i can get the key chip thingy.
so...... do i stick with my unreliable c20xe or go for a x16xe?
i just want my car to drive nice again but still have good power. dont want to go back to 1.6 8v
is it an easy conversion? wiring wise etc?
Last edited by *Dave*; 07-07-09 at 07:19 PM.
i did nothing to the ecu
C16XE runs an AFM. the X16 doesnt. (way of identifying them)
I fail to see how the 8v is cheaper to tune. The 16v has way more scope & there arent many engines in existence that you can bolt on a product & get 20bhp or so gain (maybe more) for such a measely price as a copied Powerbox. The engines respond really well to it. Not as ideal as a TB'd/cam'd setup, but that is race engine territory.
x16xe's are prone to valve stem seals,headgasket +cambelts snapping from what iv heard and experienced, but i will be doin a top end rebuild before the engine is installed. (IF) i get one.
what are they like to drive compared to the 20xe beacuse mine drives awfull but is very powerful and im paranoid of it goin wrong as i have had sooooooo many problems with it.
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