doristori
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Registered: 12th May 03
Location: Iceland - Corsa 1.8 GSi '02
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I was wondering if anyone had any ideas on how I could possibly modify this car to go close to or over the 200bhp marker, it's at 125bhp at the moment.
Any suggestions are well taken.
The reason for my posting is that there seems to be very little info on modifying this type of vehicle. 1.8 simply does not seem to exist online.
With hope of getting some information from you all.
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digitalbanana
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Registered: 24th Nov 02
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NOS is the easy answer
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doristori
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I was thinking about keeping it over the 200 marker, not just blast over it, I was hoping to get it over the 200 and then install the nos, take it close to 300 with the nos
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Kris TD
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Registered: 25th Mar 02
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turbo it.
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doristori
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any recomendations where I can get a good turbo kit for this type of vehicle?
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Gary GSi
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Registered: 30th Oct 02
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You want throttle bodies and a better engine management system.What have you done so far. My GSi is having an engine rebuild at the moment and when its done it will have between 130 and 140 BHP.
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Sir_Mixalot
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Registered: 12th Dec 02
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2.5 V6 or 2.0 Turbo (C20LET?) transplant?
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doristori
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I haven't done anything yet, I have a k&n filter on order, should arrive in 2 weeks and I am thinking about getting a remappable computer chip, + the exhaust will be redone
all in all should come out close to 150bhp, I just want over the 200 wall preferably without a engine swap
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Gary GSi
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Registered: 30th Oct 02
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What engine code is it. I see you are from Iceland. We dont have 1.8 GSi's in England.
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Sir_Mixalot
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Is there a 1.8 GSi Corsa C? i know there is an SRi 1.8 (maybe the names are swapped in iceland)
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doristori
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what a shame, that motor works just beautifully, along with the sporty gearbox
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doristori
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you are definately missing out huge, it's available as 1.8 GSi in most european countries.
it has a 125bhp motor and of course the regular GSi mods
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doristori
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what code is it that I should find, is it in the registration or just under the hood.
If you can tell me where I should be able to find it I can do that pretty fast
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Adam-D
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Registered: 11th May 02
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cams inlet maifold chip turbo bout 4 grand to do should see roughly 180 bhp-200bhp
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doristori
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yikes, that's a third of what I paid for the car
well, I think I go now on to think about engine swapping
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Sir_Mixalot
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a 2.0 turbo would go in very nicely i imagine.
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Makarus
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Registered: 25th Jun 02
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Why buy a 1.8 GSI and transplant it??
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Sir_Mixalot
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for more power!...mind you it doesn't make sense, marakus is right.
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M4tt
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Registered: 18th Apr 03
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its the same car as the 1.8 SRi in this country
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Makarus
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Yeah, the true GSI is supposed to be turbo'd aint it.........well thats last i heard but correct me if I am wrong which I could well be.
Generally people transplant engines because they have something like a 1.2 or 1.4 and step up to a 2.0, but if you already have a 1.8 whats the point in putting a 2.0 in, may as well just put the same money into tuning the 1.8 instead of following the usual trend of transplants.
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paul_spurrell
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the corsa c sri 1.8 is called a gsi in the rest of europe. You will not be able to do an engine teansplant due to everything being electronic in the corsa c. you can get it chipped and that though.
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Adam
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Registered: 1st May 01
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well yopu can get over 200bhp from a N/A 1600 16v
Exhaust
Throttle Bodies
port and polish inlet
ECU
cams and vernier pullies
facet pump
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kenyon
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Registered: 30th Apr 02
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i saw a gsi corsa c the other day in town! was pulling out of the FORD garage! dont know wheter it an import or rebadged! but it was fast as fook! it blew away a astra sxi at the lights! then when i caught upto it at the lights it looked amazin! tints, zaust, 16's and what looked like a kit! was very subtle but very very nice!!!
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GAZ914
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Registered: 28th Oct 02
Location: Sydney, Australia Drives:Corsa C SRi 1.8
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Am I just the dumb Aussie here, or has everyone forgotten about the fly-by-wire throttle on the C?
Seems to me that SBD throttle bodies would probably bolt up OK, but what are you going to use to make the throttle butterflies open when you press the accelerator pedal?
And I'd like to know what aftermarket engine management systems do fly-by-wire throttles. I haven't found one yet.
doristori is right, I haven't found much in the way of performance parts online for the ZE18XE engines.
There are a couple of people doing cams/reprogram ecu that reckon they can get you 20 hp (16 kw).
Of course the standard tuning techniques will work on any motor, but the Cs are going to be a little bit harder due to the complex nature of the engine management 
Astra turbo uses a 2.0 litre version of the same engine. Exhaust, turbo and ecu should fit OK...
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paul_spurrell
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thats just what i said
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