1.3 sierra rebuild OR vitara 1.6 carby converstion ????

[Daniel]

MY SIEERA 1.3 HAS BLOWN UP, SHOULD I GET A TOTAL ENGINE REBUILD OR GET ON THE HUNT FOR A VITARA 1.6

WHAT IS THE CHEAPER OPTION BECASE I HAVE NOT ALOT OF MONEY AT ALL.... ANY HELP WOULD BE GREAT

THANKS

DANIEL

[Pinball]

My bet would be the 1600.

Not sure on the cost difference, usually a reco motor that you get and kits are common among the specialists, can even buy the kit and do yourself.

Downside is it usually requires an engineering approval.

Spock

[oozuk]

sell your grandmother and fit the 1600 you'll be glad you did

[abundance84]

Say you go the 1.6L carbie, how easy is it to turbo?

[nickw86au]

Say you go the 1.6L carbie, how easy is it to turbo?

Not 100% but I'm pretty sure that you'd be better off going the efi engine if that was your plans; the stock computer should handle a low amount of boost but an aftermarket management system would be able to handle more. I wonder how much boost the engine can actually take physically though - probably not much more than the stock computer couls handle, I'd imagine.

I remember reading somewhere that it wasn't easy to turbo a carbied motor - either you have to build the carby to handle boost if you run the turbo before the carby. Then there's also the issue of not being able to fine-tune the carby like you can with efi anyhow.

There's someone in the daihatsu section who recently turbo'd a feroza and he's using an aftermarket engine management system. He seems pretty cluey (his setup looks schmick) so if you've got any specific turbo questions you might want to find him.

Cheers,

Nick

[abundance84]

I ask as I already have a carbied 1.6 in there and was just wondering if it was a straight up plumbing job and ya get a few more ponies or whether I would blow the wowoweewa outa engine.

This is a bit too much of a hijack so I'll start my own thread! Sorry daniel!