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8th Apr 03 at 08:50

My sisters 1.4 8v Engine in her merit has died, If i were to give her my 1.4 16v engine from my Sri, what else apart from the engine, would i need to move across??

Gearbox?
Brakes?
Sus?
Drive shafts?

Or will everything already be up to the job??

Thanks.

[Edited on 08-04-2003 by Bonus]

Kris TD

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8th Apr 03 at 09:02

brakes and gear box.

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8th Apr 03 at 09:13

Ok cool, more i can sell to her then

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8th Apr 03 at 09:13

Would that just be the front brakes or would i need to swap the drums too?

Kris TD

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8th Apr 03 at 09:19

just the front brakes. the merit has those crappy solid discs, yours are same diameter just vented and much better.

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8th Apr 03 at 09:21

Sweet, cheers for the info Kris

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8th Apr 03 at 09:34

The engine mounting points are different between an 8v and 16v also.

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8th Apr 03 at 09:50

What would i need to get round that then pete?

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8th Apr 03 at 10:06

quote:
Originally posted by Kris TD
just the front brakes. the merit has those crappy solid discs, yours are same diameter just vented and much better.

You mean , much better than solid type corsa discs. I say this because the i find the vented type are SHIT too.

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8th Apr 03 at 10:19

quote:
Originally posted by Cybermonkey24

quote:
Originally posted by Kris TD
just the front brakes. the merit has those crappy solid discs, yours are same diameter just vented and much better.

You mean , much better than solid type corsa discs. I say this because the i find the vented type are SHIT too.

yep, i had solid ones on my td and i nearly crashed so many times cos they always faded, so i got some vented ones, much better, but still fade so ive got cally turbo ones waiting to go on now.

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8th Apr 03 at 10:27

Kris, to convert the front brakes across then, what would need to be changed? Disks pads and callipers? Would the master cylinder be up to the job on the on the merit?

Kris TD

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8th Apr 03 at 10:29

yep, just discs pads and calipers

did it too mine, easy job took half hour.

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8th Apr 03 at 10:31

Good good. you know anything about needing to change the engine mounting points??

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8th Apr 03 at 10:46

the 16v mount is in the chassis leg low down where as the the 8v is higher up and on the outside. i spose u would have to cut away old mount and cut the leg to fit the new mount.

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8th Apr 03 at 10:52

Oh dear, that sounds like a big job

How hard would that be lee?

[Edited on 08-04-2003 by Bonus]

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8th Apr 03 at 11:04

Dont forget loom and ECU, prod bigger fuel pump aswell

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8th Apr 03 at 11:11

Could i just move the loom and ECU across from the Sri to the merit??

Would i need a new fuel pump in my SRi if a 2ltr went in instead of the 1.4 16v, if so i can give her the fuel pump from my sri too. Just a case of swaping it across again or wot?

Thanks for the help so far guys

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8th Apr 03 at 11:16

yeah just swop it all over, If ya puttin a 2l in you'll be takin most of it out anyway

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8th Apr 03 at 11:27

Well the 2ltr is the plan.

Its all started now my sisters 1.4 8v has died. If its not to complicated to do, i'll let her have my 1.4 16v cheap cos she cant afford to fix the car really, and put it in for her. That then leaves my car ready for the 2ltr to drop in!

Just trying to find out what the problems would be putting the 16v into the hole where the 8v came out. Only thing thats worrying me so far is this engine mount thing. Other then that its sounding like almost a straight swap.

Any other potential problems that i would need to think about here people???

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8th Apr 03 at 11:48

wouldnt be two difficult i wouldnt of thougt. looms and rest wouldnt be a problem. u would need to put a mpi fuel pump out of an sri or gsi in the merit also. as with a 2litre u would need the same pump.

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8th Apr 03 at 11:52

Lee you do conversions dont you?? (been having a search and ure name comes up alot) If i were to have this done for me, the 16v into th 8v, what sort of price would i be looking at?

2ltr conversion about 500 quid labour i think i read somewhere so would it be about the same price to do this conversion or a little cheaper or wot??

Cheers

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8th Apr 03 at 11:55

about half that price m8. but if ur doin the 8v then u will need urs done at the same time so could sort u out a very good price

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8th Apr 03 at 12:12

U2U sent!

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8th Apr 03 at 12:23

u2u replied