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[xr2i 1649]

can i get a duratec v6 in my xr2i. I can get the st200 one and the bits . (was going 4 the 2.0 zetec ) .but 200bhp std thats the thing 4 me or is it help fieta gods

[Project]

Physically, it might just fit (I reckon it will, just) but your main difficulty will be mating it to a Fiesta gearbox. Weight-wise, there shouldn't be a massive problem as the block is ally I think.

If you can make it fit, I want one in mine!! Prices for the engine, please

[Excursion]

too wide

[MarkFRST]

[festajon]

'Fookin 'ell i was round bridger's house and he's got a nice mondy and his own si. Opened up the bonnet on the mondy and that engine is bloody huge!!!!compared them side by side and it really is a tight squeeze. i don't reckon it can be done... tho that was said about a cossie engine too if i recall..

[grahamb]

It may fit, but the extra weight at the front would make it a bugger to get round corners...

[Project]

Ally block = very light

[chumkila]

its a buggar but i reckon it'll fit with a lil jiggery pokery!!

[xr2i 1649]

The engine and loom,ecu and all the bits will cost me £1500.

[Excursion]

can be done anturally but you'll need to build upa space frame front end and cut out the chassis rails - a major undertaking

[PhilM]

http://www.jve-ltd.co.uk/Products/Ford/ ... ngines.htm

Click that laydees n gents. Not a bad price at all me thinks. I reacon it'd fit, get your angle grinder out like

[flick]

I got offered a st200 engine for £400 a few weeks ago. Probably gone now but give him a try
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Think thats for the lot too

[FinnFiesta]

2.5 litre Duratec V6 weighs 166kg.
How heavy is the 2.0 litre Zetec?

[xr2i 1649]

I am going 4 it will get in 2 weeks so that will b more stuff i have 2 do. was doing body but will stop that (think i spend my life doing cars). if i have to build a space frame i am not doing that.will give it back and go 4 2l zetec he has (its all fun )

[grahamb]

Tell you what, something about stuffing a V6 in a Fiesta is producing a weird stirring in my stomach. I think its envy!

Go for it. Lets have lots of photo's. I can see the stickers now, Duratec Inside!

Best of luck. Don't forget, theres nothing an angle grinder, a MIG, and lots of lots of patience, time, blood sweat and tears cannot solve.

[xr2i 1649]

ok lots of Photo's

[chumkila]

[Excursion]

like i said it wont go in without a new front end as ive been with 2 people who tried this conversion a couple of years ago - one ina mk3 and one in a mk4

if you're going for it the st would be the one to go for its lighter

[xr2i 1649]

wot the st200 thats 1the 1 i have Just payed 4

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[chumkila]

alot of front end and arch action in store for ya.

[xr2i 1649]

o well i will c how good i am at cuttings and shutting

[grahamb]

Woof Woof! Hellllloooooooooooooooo Mr nice big V6 engine... Guess wot you're going in?

Good luck, and pls keep us posted with the progress.

[xr2i 1649]

i have got it it's so big lets i if i can get it in .the sump looks like its going 2 b a s**t job and had a look at the crankshaft and look like it comes close 2 the sump o well have all the bits and more i will try it next week

[grahamb]

Best thing to do is suspend the engine via a crane/engine lift, and try to visualise the best position for it. You probably need to connect drive shafts to the gearbox, so you know that it is sitting centrally when in the engine bay. After that, use axle stands/blocks of wood to support it, and then offer up things like the radiator, to make sure you can still fit one in the front etc.
Been there, done that (but not with a V6)

Has anyone done a V6 conversion before? I saw pictures in a Ford mag a year or two ago of a Mk2 that was going to be a RWD conversion too... but not heard of it since.

[xr2i 1649]

it's going 2 FWD . i do not think it has bin done

[xr2i 1649]

its not going well got my old lump out on friday have spent all week end trying 2 get it in but the sump is 2 big exzos manifolds r all going 2 hit thing and more and more and more things hits i am well p*ssed

[MadcatCraig]

what current chassis modification have you done ?

liek its been said and was in the article in fast ford with thefezza with cosworth lump !

you are gonna have to cut alot of metal from the car to get it to fit then restrengthen the chassis so it will fit !

major undertaking yes just persevere and all will go well ! i hope

[turbo man]

Why piss about cutting the front of the car up 2 fit a huge power engine fwd, if you cutting and pasting make it rwd, less work cos u just get a tunnel from a mk1/2 escort auto, move the fuel tank 2 the boot, put in a mk1/2 escort boot floor, weld in the brackets 4 leaf springs, weld the cross member in the front to the chassis rails and its mint. Then it will drive like an absolute beast! Dunno if you'll catch the broadside though!

[xr2i 1649]

it's not going in it's 2 big a job 4 me :cry soz and thx 4 help and chumkila u right and i am scum

[grahamb]

Bad luck.
Did you see these pictures of the Focus V6 in the states? Theres bugger all room in the Focus engine bay, and I don't know how it compares with the Fessie, but this is a real show-horn job

http://www.teamfocaljet.com/cgi-bin/ultimatebb.cgi?ubb=get_topic&f=1&t=011234

[chumkila]

:cry: it's not going in it's 2 big a job 4 me :cry soz and thx 4 help and chumkila u right and i am scum

aww sorry to hear that m8. and ur NOT scum dude. cheer up.