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richysport

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Registered: 15th Apr 05
Location: Flintshire, north wales
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21st May 07 at 18:15

iam thinkin of getting a gsi corsa as a run around, whats the good and bad point about them are they good engines can they take a beating as iam coming down from a redtop. cheers richy

Vaux Lad

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Registered: 15th Dec 04
Location: Stoke-on-Trent
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21st May 07 at 18:18

Engines have a lot of potential, and easily upgradeable, there underpowered as std in my opinion.

DAZ1985

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Registered: 3rd Sep 06
Location: Scholar Green, Cheshire
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21st May 07 at 18:21

Get a C16XE

gsirick

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Registered: 18th Feb 07
Location: mid-wales
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21st May 07 at 18:25

quote:
Originally posted by DAZ1985
Get a C16XE

yeah bud go 4 the early gsi if u get 1, mines a c16xe with cat back system, 4into1 manifold and courtenay panel filter and is producing 111bhp at the flywheel.

DAZ1985

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Registered: 3rd Sep 06
Location: Scholar Green, Cheshire
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21st May 07 at 18:33

Which is more than the X16 would produce with the same mods

After them mods id got inlet manifold as well

gavin18787

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Registered: 22nd Feb 05
Location: Basildon, Essex
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21st May 07 at 18:54

Im very happy with mine. Seems spot on for daily driving as your never short on power for normal driving and with standard suspension they are super comfy and dont handle too badly.

Just watch out for rust and knackered interiors and smokey engines. Or if your not fussed on having a gsi get a 1.6 sport

[Edited on 21-05-2007 by gavin18787]

Drives supercharged Tec with torque

smcGSI16V

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Registered: 26th May 03
Location: Farnborough Drives: Thurlby 888 CDTi No.98
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21st May 07 at 20:11

I've done 75 000 miles in 5 years in mine. With no probs what so ever.
Get one!

topshot_2k

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Registered: 1st Dec 03
Location: Northampton Drives: Pug GTi-6
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22nd May 07 at 08:17

quote:
Originally posted by DAZ1985
Which is more than the X16 would produce with the same mods

After them mods id got inlet manifold as well

not really, my X16xe made over 130bhp+ with inlet remap, exhaust, ind kit, very little in it tbh

Dean_W

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Registered: 13th Dec 05
Location: Downham Market, Norfolk
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22nd May 07 at 08:27

I'd go for as later GSI you can find, with low miles. Doesn't really matter which engine.

Fro

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Registered: 20th Jun 06
Location: Rainham, Essex Drives: A3 2.0TDi Sport
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22nd May 07 at 08:41

quote:
Originally posted by DAZ1985
Which is more than the X16 would produce with the same mods

After them mods id got inlet manifold as well

My x16xe has 111.7 bhp it had BMC and straight through exhaust...

Dean_W

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Registered: 13th Dec 05
Location: Downham Market, Norfolk
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22nd May 07 at 08:42

quote:
Originally posted by DAZ1985
Which is more than the X16 would produce with the same mods

Based on what??

DimDG

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Registered: 1st Sep 01
Location: Athens - Greece
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22nd May 07 at 09:31

I have my Corsa since December 1994

Used to be an 1.4 sport, since 1999 it has the X16XE engine on steinmetz throttle bodies (152ps RR'd a week ago).
I'm very happy with it, sometimes it's true that it has let me down but it was due to bad selection of people dealing with it. Get one!

gunzi

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Registered: 10th Feb 05
Location: Pompey
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22nd May 07 at 10:24

Are the differences between the X16XE & C16XE the EGR Valve (in X16XE) and the ECU?

Corsa E-Tec

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Registered: 4th Feb 04
Location: Stevenage Drives: Leon Cupra
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22nd May 07 at 10:56

mines done 123000 and still going strong.

pretty quick too and for daily use is fine.

PaulW

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Registered: 26th Jan 03
Location: Atherton, Greater Manchester
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22nd May 07 at 17:48

C16XE is still an Ecotec, just doesn't have the front secondary air intake on the manifold, has plastic upper inlet manifold (tat), and slightly larger ports (hence the amazing 3bhp difference)

tbh I agree with Dean_W, just get a later GSi and do that. Same engine as the sport, the secondary air intake can just be binned, and its just as tuneable (cheaper to fit a mantzel or lexmaul too as you dont have to replace the lower inlet manifold)

I've had 117bhp out of mine twice at 2 separate RR's... full catback lexmaul system, magnex decat, pipercross induction kit, astra rear intake piping (smoother than whats on the sport). Oh ye its also a hybrid XE/XEL