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Ian
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26th Jul 12 at 21:36   View Garage View User's Profile U2U Member Reply With Quote
Yeah that's a good shout.
0775kieran
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Zetec in a ka
Gaz
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my understanding is that with land rovers, anything goes in anything with the right adaptations (the bays are huge)
My dad has a disco engine (with turbo removed) in a '68 and it just went straight in
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26th Jul 12 at 21:54   View Garage View User's Profile U2U Member Reply With Quote
Tdv6 into disco 1 is the future there.

I reckon the ZLET thing would be a good starter.

Duratec into Puma/Fiesta too Ian, do a bit of research, if you can do an M-tek style fitting kit, you've got it sewn up as like you say, Puma engines are getting scarce, Mondeo engines are not....
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Vts for sure. go on sax-p and see how many threads about vts conversions there are, theyre almost hourly.
Saxo's have chocolate gearboxes too so if you've got a collection of them from the cars you break you've got an earner there
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Actually, I missed the point here.

What you really need is Z12XE engines, if the chain goes, most people buy another engine, so get a shed full of them and you're sorted.

If you buy running cars which are a bit rough, pull the engine out, stick that on eBay, then advertise the shell as 'ideal for z20let conversion' and sell them one of your ZLETs too!
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The cars are normally tidy but they'll all be either cat C or D.

What I'm after doing is selling everything via word of mouth on forums, doing fairly well on the Fiesta ones now as I'm a bit more involved in the community.

Not sure I could do something like that for the Z12XE, I'd be punting them about on Ebay which I don't love, too many weirdos, too easy to get bad feedback which kills it and far too expensive.
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quote:
Originally posted by LeeM
Vts for sure. go on sax-p and see how many threads about vts conversions there are, theyre almost hourly.
Saxo's have chocolate gearboxes too so if you've got a collection of them from the cars you break you've got an earner there
Found a few useful threads, probably is Saxo VTS are even more rare than Pumas as salvage!
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Break corrados, good money in it and prices for complete cars with faults are quite low now.

Some of the parts get silly money, I just paid nearly £60 for one bit of interior plastic as there was no other option and a few people were bidding.
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C20xe into a d or a z20leh or let into c




[Edited on 27-07-2012 by sri boy]
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Don't forget old school mi16 into 205

Zetec into mk1mor 2 fiestas. Mk3/4 escorts

If you'd want a touch just give us a shout
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V6's into B's aint as hard as people make out once you've got the mounts etc..

cheap enough power too

[Edited on 27-07-2012 by Jed D]
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2.0 duratec to puma
LeeM
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2.0's go into mk4 escorts a lot
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As said the mi16, GTi6 or V6 into 205/309 is always pretty simple and surprisingly easy to get hold of still. Failing that i've seen a couple of Honda B & K series engines into 205/309s although the K series engines aren't that cheap yet.
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Links to K-series pugs pleaze
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http://www.octane.ie/forum/showthread.php?t=58592
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Megane 225 into clio 197.
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I think saab engines would be a good one. Can pick up a full running. Ar for around £400. I also agree with landrovers, even mk1 discos, can pick up mot failures cheap and usually just selling the engine alone will cover what you paid for the car. I have done 6 of them now all 200/300 tdi's, wouldnt bother with a v8 unless its modded or has LPG and is reallly cheap. So making loom adaptors etc would be good if you had time but probly not a huge money maker.
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Originally posted by Eck
B18/B20/B16B into a Civic VTi. Can mix and match so you have a b16 head on a b18 or b20 too


Not forgetting being able to use a honda crv bottom end as its a high compression block which will produce alot more power with a b16/b18 head rather than the stock b16/b18/b20 engine. Fucking love honda's recently.
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All e36 beemers are pretty much bolt in jobbies. Cheap enough too.

1.8t's in mk1/mk2 golfs are easy enough.

Z20let/h into a corsa d could be a good kick off maybe? Cant see it being too difficult

putting the 172/182 engines into smaller spec clios

The possibilites are endless really, just depends on what parts you can get your hands on for the right prices at the time of looking for them. And then finding customers who want those certain swaps
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Vectra Vxr into Astra g lol
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2.0 8v turbo into a 205/306/309/405
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quote:
Originally posted by Robin
Links to K-series pugs pleaze


As one as the link Craig put up this is/was the 309 K series project

http://forum.205gtidrivers.com/index.php?showtopic=88291

and another

http://forum.205gtidrivers.com/index.php?showtopic=120084

Plenty of other ones have done i just cant seem to find the links



[Edited on 30-07-2012 by timmsy21]

[Edited on 30-07-2012 by timmsy21]
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Bloody easy fitting bike engines!

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