What do i do ?

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Well my little UKRCM chums i'm in a bit of a quandry.

The cavvy currently has a rather nice X20XEV ecotec lump fitted which is due to come out for a freshen up sooner rather than later.

my question is what should i do when she's out ?

Option 1 my thoughts are just freshen up with a quick head skim (up the compression) and have the bottom end balanced while its apart. She already has a set of uprated cams a set of ARP's and some headwork. after this its a case of a nice new exhaust (shexhy lexmaul manifold etc) and then look at the induction side of things (suggestions welcome)

Option 2 Turn to the dark side. fit a C20XE redtop and start afresh the only benefit is the ready availability of tuning goodies over the ecotec

fortune would have it that i have been offered a nice xe running SBD bodies for 1500 quid which is very tempting :) Option 3

Fit a C20LET turbo lump 204 bhp standard downside being having to fork out

6-700 quid for a lump then same again possibly on a rebuild before i start tuning.

Option 4

what u guys think???? any thoughts

SteveH · Accepted Answer

Buy the decent lump out of my brother's written off Calibra along withthe leather interior.....

Rob · Answer

remind me X20xev orC20xe???was tempted before but a million miles away

JackH · Answer

If you must stick with a Cavalier...Sell it and buy one with the XE lump in there as standard... they're notthat rare, and not that dear to buy either.--JackH

Rob · Answer

lol then theres the tin worm issue which mine is gladly free ofbetter the devil you know qand all that :)

JackH · Answer

No there isn't... they were registered K / L reg as SRi models, IIRC... just buy one that's not rotten - they do exist, believe it or not.

But Rob... *you've* owned and been fecking about with it.

Best get rid whilst you still can, eh.

-- JackH

Â¤Â¤Â¤ Abo Â¤Â¤Â¤ · Answer

Well, since this is a modding group, lets do the engine swap! IMHO you should go for the C20LET; if you can buy and rebuild it for less than £1500 then why go for the red top?

That said, the red top will an easier swap and can be tuned plenty; the race car has about 230bhp running on carbs, but you won't get much change out of

7 grand for one of those...

Vamp · Answer

cav/calibra turbo engine swap it, do it properly for a change :)

Rob · Answer

Um redtop and Let are the same block same mounts etc etc  no extra difficulty in dropping it into the cav(considering engines self contained on both counts) only a few extra pipes :)

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