Induction kit for a fiesta!?

Complete waste of time on a carburettored car - unless you're going to invest in a carb. re-jet at the same time.

Oooo!! Didn't realise we had the technology for magnetic levitation of cars yet. Brilliant, I can do away with my tyres and suspension.

-- bucket

bucket ( snipped-for-privacy@nospam.co.uk) gurgled happily, sounding much like they were saying :

Magnetic levitation has been commercially available for Mk2 Festers for more than a couple of decades, and for other cars for considerably longer.

I ment air induction not electromagnetic induction silly. However, that picture does look supprisingly like Fifi the Fiesta!

"Complete waste of time on a carburettored car - unless you're going to invest in a carb. re-jet at the same time."

Do you mean it wont work at all or just have the same effect as driving with a tail wind?

Ben ( snipped-for-privacy@dunelm.org.uk) gurgled happily, sounding much like they were saying :

Not quite.

It'll make your car noisier, which often helps to convince chavs that it's quicker.

No, at best it'll do nothing. At worst it'll allow a bit more air into the engine, which the carb isn't set up to deal with, so the mixture will be leaner, which may burn a valve or hole a piston.

On a 1.1 I wouldn't bother.

Firstly, you need a bolt on K&N filter, not a stupid induction kit - they're for injection cars.

Complete waste of time without £60 worth of rolling road session. It'll run like a complete dog until you do as the jetting in the carb is wrong.

For the £100+ it's going to cost you, you'd be better getting a second hand 1.3 or 1.6 engine.

When you put your foot down, it'll make a loud noise and accelerate SLOWER than before. When you take your foot off the accelerator, it'll stall.

You'll need to take it to a rolling road tuners to get the carb rejetted.

I remember a MK2 2.0i Ashtray a bloke gave me. One day he was following me and asked what I'd done to make it so quick. "Easy", was the reply." I took off that K&N bollocks and put the standard filter back on."

OK, so my Capri has a K&N but then again it has a few other bits as well and it's all set up properly.

Great advice, thanks. Always worth asking before wasting money! Think I will do the obvious and make do, maybe save the =A380 towards a new car.

Alternatively, if it's in decent shape....

XR3i steel wheels, repainted satin black, slam it to the deck, remove bumpers.

Don't know what colour it is, but a satin black bonnet is optional.

YKIMS.