1600 or 1200 head?

[angusl2006]

went and looked at the rally car and in the description it said it had a 1200 head on the 1600 block etc, however when i got there he "thought" it had a 1200 head on it.

now, when i stripped my 1600 nova engine, on the right hand side of the block there was a sensor or some sort of eletrical connection, do the 1200 corsa or nova engines have this also?

the block etc is a nova gsi engine, another thing is it has a 4-1 manifold, wud this not be different to a 1600 if the head was a 1200?

thanks

[GRUNT 16V]

could be a head off of a corsa engine check around the exhaust manifold to see if you can find a big 12 on the head itself

[mk1nova_rich]

if its being run on carbs then a 4 branch can be used on any head. The best way to check is to take the inlet manifold off and check the port shapes.

[blue_peg_16v]

the reason for the 1.2 head is more than likely the combustion chamber shape is different to the 1.6 and due to this it raises compresion by quiet a bit and increases performance due to this

[angusl2006]

nice one folks, thanks :)

[stevie78]

i had my 4 to 1 on both 12 and 16 gsi engines