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Martin
29-09-06, 07:31 PM
Whats the best way of going about getting a lil more poke out of a 16xe in a nova?

4branch? de-cat? cams?

Whats the best?


Eventully will have TBs or Webbers


:thumb:
Stuart
29-09-06, 07:33 PM
what do you want from the engine?

if your "eventually going to have TB's etc" then dont bother with anything now and save your cash ;)
craig green
29-09-06, 07:37 PM
Trouble with this engine is it needs rods IMO. that means its pointless going further if you quest power unless its going to rebuilt at some point. May aswell do that first unless a better flowing inlet manifold & exh will suffice.

But if you are doing rods & thinking of TBs you then ought to consider high comp pistons & pocketed ones for mad cams. You cant really stop spending... Thats the way I look at it anyhow.
Adam
29-09-06, 07:38 PM
If you just want to mildly tune, get a Mantzel type inlet.
Im pretty sure your quite stuck with cams, without changing the pistons.

You could do 4-branch, full exhaust, de-cat etc, but what Reg is your nova? ;)

OR get some Bike throttle bodies, and MegaSquirt.
Martin
29-09-06, 08:11 PM
Changin pistons and rods?

nova reg is K

stu i want it in and running with a bit of poke til i can be ****d 2 go all out on it...


Bike TBs was and option whats megasquirt?
Stuart
29-09-06, 08:24 PM
MS is a DIY ecu..... tricky to find good people to map it though ;)

rods arent "vital" but they are preferrer if your living over 7500 for any real lenght of time lol
chris82a
29-09-06, 09:30 PM
Nitrous or xe/let conversion on power to money ratio imo
General Baxter
29-09-06, 10:14 PM
Nitrous or xe/let conversion on power to money ratio imo

big ghay engines lol
Martin
30-09-06, 11:53 AM
Nitrous or xe/let conversion on power to money ratio imo

Yea just sold my Xe cba with one yet mayb in my next car

Were can i get all the realvant(sp) parts from then

i.e rods pistons etc
craig green
30-09-06, 01:01 PM
SBD are the best 16v Vaux N/A tuners. They are the daddies with the XE & small block XEs.

Although a tad extreme they have built 1.6XEs with 250bhp.

www.sbdev.co.uk (http://www.sbdev.co.uk)

The other option is the Mantzel type derestricted inlet & a 4 branch manifold. Mines got Schrick cams too. Never run it though so cant tell you how it goes tbh.
Martin
30-09-06, 01:11 PM
SBD are the best 16v Vaux N/A tuners. They are the daddies with the XE & small block XEs.

Although a tad extreme they have built 1.6XEs with 250bhp.

www.sbdev.co.uk (http://www.sbdev.co.uk)

The other option is the Mantzel type derestricted inlet & a 4 branch manifold. Mines got Schrick cams too. Never run it though so cant tell you how it goes tbh.

oki cheers mate
Adam
30-09-06, 04:34 PM
I think they rev quite well on standard rods.
Just a set of ARP bolts.

Or i've got them confused with a different engine.

I would just leave the engine std, until you get the cash/decide what to do.
Stuart
01-10-06, 08:48 AM
for pistons it doesnt "really" matter where you get them from as long as they are forged ... ie omega/JE/mahle (to an extent lol)

you jsut need to do things like measure the compression ratio and work out what CR you want then get the head skimmed/block modded/pistons sized to give you what you want and so on...

there is hell of a lot to building a good reliable highish spec engine ;)
the 1.4 8v tuning guide in my sig tells you how to measure the cr and other things to do that may be of relevance