carnoisseurcraig
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Picking it up on saturday.
Was going for a 2 litre conversion but sourced and 1400 courtneay turbo engine.
Reasonable price paid for it.
Will be in and running next week.
Anyone else got one on here.
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AK
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oh oh 
have never heard anything good about the converted 1.4/1.6 turbo's
Plus, at the low boost courtneay 'put it out with' it only makes 120bhp or so yes??
Get a EGT, AFR, boost gauges in before you drive it 
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carnoisseurcraig
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i got the boost gauge and AFR, also oil pressure and oil temp.
Whats an EGT
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James R
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Exhaust gas temp.
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carnoisseurcraig
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DDDOOHHH,
Of course. www.imafud.com
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AK
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are you getting a full history of the engine? has it been rebuild?
Is it running forged pistons bla bla, lowered compression??
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carnoisseurcraig
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yup, lowered compression, engine was rebuilt prior to doing the conversion.
Its actually my mates old engine. never missed a beat in the 10000 miles he had it. The car was rear ended, damaged and not fixable. Im going to be rebuilding it before i put the engine in, gaskets etc.
Car is boosting 7psi putting out 130bhp at the wheels.
[Edited on 03-02-2004 by carnoisseurcraig]
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AK
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a 1.4 16v boosting at 7psi putting out 130bhp at the wheels??!?!?!
You sure that isnt crank?
punto's etc make 136bhp or there about's at higher boost than 7psi (at the crank)
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miles
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I aint buying that power figure...
If your rebuilding it get some decent pistons in there....
Courtenays conversion is a hack, they are meant to benefit greatly from the inlet manifolds still though....
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Adam-D
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yes id say get better pistons rods arp bolts to try and make it a little more reliable and less likely to blow itself up
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Kris TD
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pretty lame that power figure really, you can get 1.5 td's that high 
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Daimo B
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Courtenay use 3 headgaskets
Get an aftermarket inlet manifold and join it on as it will greatly improve top end power also. Then you should expect to see 130-140 real bhp.
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sxi16vjoe
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daimo apparantly volvo do that from factory so cant be such a bad way can it?
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miles
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I cant believe that joe.
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carnoisseurcraig
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some of the figures the boy gave me could be wrong but the grapg doesnt.
129.5 bhp @5325
135 lb/ft of torque.
I dare say with a bit of fiddling it could be a decent running engine.
Everyone is a skeptic, me included but im willing to give it a try. Better than a boring valver IMO.
Not many people will have what i have.
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broster
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should be interesting to see what it runs like tho really, so fitting a manzel inlet will make a bif differnece still?
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luca2020
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quote:
Originally posted by sxi16vjoe
daimo apparantly volvo do that from factory so cant be such a bad way can it?
yer i dout that, u should use a tripple plated head gasket at worst, u should realy be using forged pistons e.g. omega jobbies
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essexracer
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i phoned up courtney a year ago, and got a quote for my 14xe to be turbo charged (£3800)
they said it would be about 145bhp (at fly) and that was with a mantelz power box as well.
so if courtney did the conversion, id assume it has a mantelz inlet manifold already 
james
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Greasemonkey
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get some pictures of it up lad
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carnoisseurcraig
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will do. im picking it up on sat so il take the pics then and get them up asap.
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AK
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waiting with baited breath
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carnoisseurcraig
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This is a pic of the engine. needs a wee clean.
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bradfincham
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Courtenay use a triple layer head gasket to lower the compression ratio and they use a 5th injector dont they??
Id get some decent pistons and arp rod bolts in there!
And for sure the AFR gauage,
And dont go cranking the boost up!
there was a 1.4 16v turbo in fast car a few months back for sale with s/steel pistons??
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Greasemonkey
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Like someone else said, i thought there should be a mantzel power box with the conversion too
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AK
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diff conversions......
it was prob an early conversion, before mantzel dealership moved from VKR to Court.
if it runs fine, and fueling/EGT's are fine..... leave it....
may aswell rebuild it with a 1.6 bottom end or some shit when it goes pop eh
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