Tuned SR or Mildly tuned SRi.

[Paul]

I have a 1400SR with ported and gas flowed head, piper 275 cam, webber 32/34 k & N and a straight through exhaust system. I have been offered a SRi engine for a good price.

My question is, what would be quicker? What would be more economical? My 1400SR as it is, or the SRi with the cam?

Im planning on putting the cam into the SRi engine.

Cheers Paul

[Will]

would need SRI/GSI/GTE fuel tank and lines and sri ecu along with engine of course!

Insuring it with your current company would become interesting as its an SRI in an SR shell and they might not like that.....

i dont think you will be looking at a huge gain with the SRI, your already pushing 80+ bhp yes?

[m.d.]

you may find that you will loose power as the injection is crap on novas and will starve your mods where as a carb can be set up to what the engine needs.
if ure looking for more power go for a set of twin 40 carbs. make all the difference as im sure alot of people will tell you on here

[Paul]

My carbueretteour is causing me a few problems, webbers are renknown for overfuelling etc, and my car isnt set up properly. It has been set up so nothing will blow up, less power. I want it set up so i may put a conrod or something through my block. :D

The SRi engine is quite economical isnt it? And I can do around 55miles to a tenner at the moment when i drive how i usually drive. traffic and heavy right footed. :D

[2litreturbo]

And I can do around 55miles to a tenner at the moment when i drive how i usually drive. traffic and heavy right footed. :D

My turbo does more than that paul! :?

[Will]

My carbueretteour is causing me a few problems, webbers are renknown for overfuelling etc, and my car isnt set up properly. It has been set up so nothing will blow up, less power. I want it set up so i may put a conrod or something through my block. :D

The SRi engine is quite economical isnt it? And I can do around 55miles to a tenner at the moment when i drive how i usually drive. traffic and heavy right footed. :D

I used to get at WORST 75 miles to a tenner on your setup...........

crusing i cud get 100 miles to a tenner, sumthing isnt right there imo.

55 miles to a tenner is 40s type of MPG when driving hard....

[Dicko]

i used to get over 100 miles out of a tenner with my sri, few mods and heavy right foot.

i get less than 100 from ?20 now with my current setup :twisted:

[2litreturbo]

thats bad dicko!

[Paul]

Fucking hell, i put ?3 in my tank earlier. :( Cant wait for my mum n dad 2 get back off holiday. lmao Iv dun 18 miles and its bacxk down to where it was petrol lights Just come on.

Where can I get my car setup? I dont think its as quick as it should be, Will used to have the same setup basically and he could beat a VTR, I can't! :cry:

Any ideas wheres best to go? Dont mind travelling too far.

Paul

[robb]

I am getting 44 miles to the tenner on a standard pieburg carb with filter and no internal mods!

Any ideas as this is terrible, there are NO air leaks. A tube of gasket sealant made sure of that around manifold gaskets top and bottom.

I can't feel any lack of power though, it actually pulls from my mates equivalent car and won't spit flames so it is burning it, and no it doesn't smell of fuel so ne leaks either.

If it will be expensive then I don't wanna know as I have a 1.8 to go in in the next 3 weeks, could do with saving some beer money thats all!

[Philsutton]

im getting 90 miles to a tank with the 40's an they are set up right.
you could beat a VTR on foot :lol: never mind with that set up

[Will]

some people are running very rich to do these shite mpg.

as for VTR's they were easy to beat :?

[XZiBiT]

fcuking hell, i put ?3 in my tank earlier. :( Cant wait for my mum n dad 2 get back off holiday. lmao Iv dun 18 miles and its bacxk down to where it was petrol lights Just come on.

Where can I get my car setup? I dont think its as quick as it should be, Will used to have the same setup basically and he could beat a VTR, I can't! :cry:

Any ideas wheres best to go? Dont mind travelling too far.

Paul

try t&m's in colchester mate they done wonders on my gte :lol: i had 139bhp on my 1st rolling road run after an hour and a bit of fiddling i got 156 just wernt set up properly :lol:

[2litreturbo]

fcuking hell, i put ?3 in my tank earlier. :( Cant wait for my mum n dad 2 get back off holiday. lmao Iv dun 18 miles and its bacxk down to where it was petrol lights Just come on.

Where can I get my car setup? I dont think its as quick as it should be, Will used to have the same setup basically and he could beat a VTR, I can't! :cry:

Any ideas wheres best to go? Dont mind travelling too far.

Paul

Paul head down the 127 towards, basildon, past the raleigh wier, then on the right, directly opposite the Dick Turpin Pub, there is a rolling road place. Think it's call Victor Service Station. They are a weber specialist. ?30 + vat an hour. wont take more than that though.

[Paul]

is that John Mowatts. I need to be beating VTR's. :(

[Paul]

is that John Mowatts. I need to be beating VTR's. :(

[benji]

im getting 90 miles to a tank with the 40's an they are set up right.


i get 200+ miles to a tank with my twin 40's

[Ste_Nova]

i get 100 miles out of ?10 with this setup

1.4sr with 2mm overbore
standard new 1.4sr cam
weber 32/34
4 branch and system

quicker than a standard vtr

..... but i just picked up a c16se.... and i'm gonna turbo it :twisted:

[Snowface]

with the setup below i get 250 miles to the tank (34mpg) with BP Ultimate (97/98 ron).

1300sr bored to 1324
kent ast2 cam
Weber 32/34
4-2-1 sr manifold.

This is driving sensibly, i've just had the fuelling set up so its going to get even more miles to tank now hopefully.

Can anyone tell me the bhp of a xr2i?
I was gaining on one up hill this avo (90mph) but he had 2/3 passengers and me on my own.

[2litreturbo]

Paul, it's called victor service station and they are webber specialist so will do it really quickly!

[Adam]

Here you go SnowFace, bhp of XR2i is 110.
Which is about on par with the GTE/GSI seeing as they have the same capacity engines.
1989 Ford Fiesta XR2i
Max. output 111.5 PS (110.0 bhp) (82 kW)
@6000 rpm
Max. torque 138.0 Nm (102 lbft) (14.1 kgm)
@2800 rpm

[2litreturbo]

the xr2 is lighter though!