Can a 1.6si be tunned (rolling road)

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Can a 1.6si be tunned (rolling road)

Postby RS1800pec on Tue Apr 05, 2005 4:59 pm

IM convinsed my si is lacking in power. :rolleyes:

I was thinking of getting rolling road, set up, tunned etc.....

Can this be done on a si because someone told me you c ant tune/set up si's.

Any advice would be great.
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Postby Project on Tue Apr 05, 2005 10:21 pm

Apart from a good service - fluids and filters, clean the inlet, etc, there's practically nothing that can be done electronically to the Si without remapping the management.

Why not look at fitting the tuning parts from the 115/130PS zetecs, e.g. cams, throttle body, 1800 MAF, ECU, etc?

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Postby jdfiesta on Wed Apr 06, 2005 9:42 am

Project :Apart from a good service - fluids and filters, clean the inlet, etc, there's practically nothing that can be done electronically to the Si without remapping the management.

Why not look at fitting the tuning parts from the 115/130PS zetecs, e.g. cams, throttle body, 1800 MAF, ECU, etc?

/al


didnt think they worked right on 1.6 engine?
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Postby Kartracer69 on Wed Apr 06, 2005 12:46 pm

nor did i :-? other wise harly anyone would transplant a 2 litre, they would just uprate cams and TB and be done with it
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Postby bj on Wed Apr 06, 2005 8:16 pm

it dosnst work well and costs huge amounts of dosh ! so if ur looking at spending that much its way cheaper just to transplant a 2 litre moddy lump into it ! surely ???? :-?
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