e16se tuning ideas.........

[mowgli]

Or spend £300 on a c20xe for the same power

if you could get me a c20xe up & running street legal & mot'd in my car for £300 including the engine, i would give you a kidney...... or you could just sod off as i am not fitting one...

£300 will rebuild my existing engine, pay for the headwork & probably a cam grind

i don't want an xe, i am looking at doing this more for the actual exercise of tuning up an engine. i don't want to go up the strip @ the pod, i don't do Kroozes, i rarely even get involved in races, i am more interested in just improving what i've got.

AND as my car has only done 9500 miles, i am no way going to start mashing chassis legs & welding bits into it.

[Danny s-p]

please explain......just what is a phase 3 head on a n/a engine..........

throttle bodies are way over my almost non-existant budget

live remap????? i have a bosch l3.1 jetronic, it is basically an analogue circuit... it is also impossible to remap

dose this mean the engine i have got has not been chipped as the seller told me it had

[John]

it would take more than just a modded airbox, surely....... i mean, a decent cone filter only gives about 5hp,
i know a hard cam & removing the rev limiter would be a huge hp gain, but only on a circuit...

any chance you have the article knocking about?????

Sorry i didn't explain myself, the car had other mods too, iirc a big cam and head work. will try see if i can dig it out. The results showed a derestricted airbox with panel filter and decent, big cold air feed showed about 10 brake. All done on the rollers.

[mowgli]

[/b]dose this mean the engine i have got has not been chipped as the seller told me it had

the bosch system really is basic.... there isn't a magic chip, like some ecu's, gm did manage to uprate them for groupA competition use but i don't know how

[Danny s-p]

the bosch system really is basic.... there isn't a magic chip, like some ecu's, gm did manage to uprate them for groupA competition use but i don't know how

they used it in rallying and said the owner before them had it chipped i don't no wot group they used it in tho

[Andy]

does the group a build manual have any useful engine info?? or is it just shell prep??

[mowgli]

does the group a build manual have any useful engine info?? or is it just shell prep??

that is simply a kit fitting instructions book.....

the big thing with groupA was that they couldn't mod the head or manifolds, so it basically got 12:1 cr pistons, and they ran on german 4star

[mowgli]

right, having spent an age going thru a valve book, i reckon bmw m40 engines have suitable valves..........anyone got access to them???

[Stuart]

right, having spent an age going thru a valve book, i reckon bmw m40 engines have suitable valves..........anyone got access to them???

any good engine builders can sort it

[mowgli]

any good engine builders can sort it

stu, i was more hoping for someone who worked at a place with them in stock so they can check them........

i have found stock in GSF Spares in leicester, but its a right pain to get there