Levaz's 3dr 105 project/daily

[Levaz]

result!!

Thanks to a local to me K series fan, I've just paid £50 for on a 66k miles 1.4 105 engine with an IB5 box, all gaskets done, recent cambelt and waterpump.

Just need to go collect it

[flattop]

thats a nice result .

[Levaz]

Thats what i thought!
The guy selling also has a set of 135 cams on vernier pulleys i may have if the price is right

[flattop]

ohhh sounds nice . u going to scrap the old engine .

[Levaz]

Pretty much.
Might keep the head and tweak it a little, if it's not too gone.

Cams, vvc inlet, port matching.

Depends just how warped it is and if its been skimmed before

[flattop]

just read this sounds interesting ...I have done this to a 1.4 and a 1.6 the 1.4 made just over 130 bhp but that included , a fully reworked head, vvc/ 135 inlet along with 52 mm throttle body. full Janspeed exhaust inc mani and sports cat, full mapping and modified the cam dowels to allow adjustment of the cam timing.

[Levaz]

125/130bhp would be nice, but at the same time i am on the lookout for a full 1.8t conversion.

The replacement 1.4 just happened to come along at the right time and price.

Building the other head up is more of an 'i can and i want to' than an 'i need to'

[flattop]

i do like the idea of doing a 1.8t but its having the pennies to do it .

[Levaz]

I was looking at getting a rear ended zt and breaking what was left, try to recover some of the costs

[shellz47]

brill....u collecting zr's.....