Evening all.
Thought I would share my recent covid project.
I acquired an S16 earlier this year. Although Ive mostly had 205s, an S16 was always on the list to own. I prefer the look to the later N5 cars. It presented really well in photos and the clincher was the immaculate interior with full leather.
I bought the car with 200ks on the clock and an overheating issue relating to a headgasket.
Upon taking the engine out and then stripping it down it was not clear that it had headgasket issues but a tell tale was how tight, or loose the head bolts were. Perhaps it had the gasket replaced and not torqued down correctly. We will never really know.
With the guidance of PeterT we measured it all up and decided it would need over sized pistons as the bore ware was such. We had the rotating assembly balanced, the blocked decked, stage 1 inlet and 0.5 exhaust cams fitted and went about getting the work sorted. Initially we were going to fit an 88mm crank but as it happened we stuck with the 86mm crank as there were questions over the ability of the stock ecu to cope with all the changes.
Its now fitted up with 1.9lt injectors and except for the noisy power steer pump (my fault) and the lack of the vacuum amplifier for the avac system it runs well.
The car has clearly been cared for during its life. The internals of the engine were in very good condition all things considered and the mechanicals and body are very good.
We fitted a Quaife lsd and I managed to get some yellow carello headlights that make it that but more 90s for me.
A few pics. Hopefully next week once I change the oil after a few more kays I can really open it up.
Thought I would share my recent covid project.
I acquired an S16 earlier this year. Although Ive mostly had 205s, an S16 was always on the list to own. I prefer the look to the later N5 cars. It presented really well in photos and the clincher was the immaculate interior with full leather.
I bought the car with 200ks on the clock and an overheating issue relating to a headgasket.
Upon taking the engine out and then stripping it down it was not clear that it had headgasket issues but a tell tale was how tight, or loose the head bolts were. Perhaps it had the gasket replaced and not torqued down correctly. We will never really know.
With the guidance of PeterT we measured it all up and decided it would need over sized pistons as the bore ware was such. We had the rotating assembly balanced, the blocked decked, stage 1 inlet and 0.5 exhaust cams fitted and went about getting the work sorted. Initially we were going to fit an 88mm crank but as it happened we stuck with the 86mm crank as there were questions over the ability of the stock ecu to cope with all the changes.
Its now fitted up with 1.9lt injectors and except for the noisy power steer pump (my fault) and the lack of the vacuum amplifier for the avac system it runs well.
The car has clearly been cared for during its life. The internals of the engine were in very good condition all things considered and the mechanicals and body are very good.
We fitted a Quaife lsd and I managed to get some yellow carello headlights that make it that but more 90s for me.
A few pics. Hopefully next week once I change the oil after a few more kays I can really open it up.