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brake-dust
08-07-10, 08:23 PM
anyone done it? how hard is it?
Adam
08-07-10, 08:27 PM
I assume on a xe?

Its straight forward but you need a LOT of parts to do it.
blue_peg_16v
08-07-10, 08:27 PM
straight forward
Andy
08-07-10, 08:39 PM
may as well LET it
brake-dust
08-07-10, 09:07 PM
cant afford to let it but xe yer, might buy another engine and swap the nessesary bits over
geth_xe
08-07-10, 10:13 PM
If your going to convert to coilpack, I still have a few bits for sale to convert
brake-dust
08-07-10, 10:15 PM
tbh mate i'd like to buy everything i need in one go and swap it over in a day if i can, thinking about carbs aswell, what ever comes up first
blue_peg_16v
08-07-10, 10:58 PM
may as well LET it

haha your catching on lol
SR-Rally
09-07-10, 09:50 PM
If you did decide to carb I have an mbe loom and ecu to sort ignition.
brake-dust
09-07-10, 10:05 PM
bought a complete engine off benn now,

thanks people
Doddsy
18-09-13, 06:29 PM
Would anyone be able to explain what parts I would need to convert my SRI to coilpack? Cheers.
Doddsy
24-09-13, 02:44 PM
Would anyone be able to explain what parts I would need to convert my SRI to coilpack? Cheers.
meritlover
24-09-13, 06:30 PM
you would need 2 separate triggers from the ECU for each group of coils in the coil pack to run wasted spark (1+4) + (2+3), which you probably dont have if it was distributer.

also a crank trigger will be needed if the pick up sensor was in the distributor.

you could rig a crank sensor up with 2 trigger points (as crank is double cam speed) which would make the ECU think the trigger is still cam based but it would need a sync to know what set of coils to fire ie a TDC mark. this is why the OE crank trigger wheel is 60-2.

so you're onto plums.

what is wrong with distributor?
Doddsy
26-09-13, 01:03 PM
It has a crank sensor on it, no wires come out of the dizzy.. Im putting a 1.6 (C16se) in it and it is coil pack but the rest of the loom is the same with the same sensors etc. So I was wondering if I could just add a few extra wires into the loom for the coil pack and then plug the 1.6 ecu in.
meritlover
26-09-13, 04:46 PM
It has a crank sensor on it, no wires come out of the dizzy.. Im putting a 1.6 (C16se) in it and it is coil pack but the rest of the loom is the same with the same sensors etc. So I was wondering if I could just add a few extra wires into the loom for the coil pack and then plug the 1.6 ecu in.


would it not just be easier to take the coilpack off the C16SE and fit the distributor?
Doddsy
26-09-13, 06:38 PM
Would be easier but not sure how to wire it up to the ecu.
meritlover
26-09-13, 11:36 PM
eh?
Doddsy
27-09-13, 02:14 PM
If I used the original dizzy, I would somehow need to wire it up to the 1.6 ecu. As the 1.6 ecu ran coil pack originally.
meritlover
27-09-13, 02:31 PM
the head and block are essentially the same, why cant you swap over all the parts which made the original engine run, onto the new engine?
jimbob-mcgrew
28-09-13, 02:52 AM
I thought the dizzy engines were considered slightly better because of the adjustability ... why change over if it works ?