Thats cos its not a fatty bum bumOriginally Posted by Stuart
Thats cos its not a fatty bum bum
Right then, my turn to give mr marland a rapingOK I've owned 3 1600's and 2 xe's, and would like to put my two penneth in.
If you tuned a 1600 to xe power, you'll be skint and get $hite fuel economy (you'll be on carbs), need uprated shafts, terrible noise on the motorway, a lumpy drive around town the unreliability of what will be a nigh-on race spec engine, not easy to have work done on it because it's such a specialised lump, insurance issues, mileage limits on the components?
1. Fuel economy is aroud 35mpg normal driving and down to 25-27 mpg on track all day.
2. shafts, hello ? i think not
3. lumpy? pmsl, mine purs like a standard motor and pulls from 16mph in 5th smoothly and strongly
4. reliability, it was finally proven on saturday amongst a few of us at a r/r that 3 yrs after my last tune (and on different rollers) the car ran the same torque but was a whole 5bhp down which was down to overfuelling at the very very top rpm's, so a tweak with the carbs and it was back on full form.
5. my engine has now done 50k in its present form, with lots of abuse dished out at it. Only change was the cam but that has done alot of the 50k, only thing to wear was the vernier pulley as that i had on the engine before i did the rebuild and i gave that 100k worth of abuse in total
Alas my quest is now over regarding all the wives tales being squashed, but it did prove them to mostly be a crock of sh*te
Fair enuff.
I want Dan's setup (once I can insure it).
I want Dan's setup full stop
Very good mpg infact...i dont get any where near that at the minuteThe fuel economy was 52mpg Newquay and back around 520mile round trip, at appox 60-65mph :D
On usual ring trips it averages about 35-40mpg at approx a lot more than 60mph
Me I Say E16let !!!!!
LMAO I have been in Dans car and its awesome and pulls as well as a XE but i would still just slap a xe in to have the same pull and more top end and more money in my pocket.
And as for the 1400 & 1600 16v they ARE unreliable and this is PROVEN many many times by MANY people.
a screw in the inlet cant really be the engines fault can it
No not at all wasnt refering to that im going on about nigh on 95% of the small block 16v's doing steam seals nigh on every 20k miles and when you start tuning them the reliability goes donwhill fast,
Nearly all the highly tuned ones are annualy rebuilt.
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