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Hi people was just after a bit of advice on gettin more power from my engine while its out getttin a rebuild, dont wonna go down the turbo route just fancy that few more horses, any advice on what pistons and all the other stuff would be great, i know i have been on before askin about stage 3 heads and should i sell or shell but im usin the car every day now and the more i drive it the better its gettin in fact its the dogs, read in fast ford about the zvh engine is it worth going down that route or is it just better to keep it standerd like i say any suggestions would be really helpful

Andy

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Well the first thing youve gotta ask yourself is do you want to keep the car to basically the original spec or seriously modify it which is not favoured by the purists. Also how much have you to spend and how much hassle do you want?

A ZVH or 1900 CVH would be an interesting conversion but they wouldnt run on the twin coil setup without modification (getting a mappable ECU and setting it all up costs £££££s), or changeing to a dizzy setup with is inferior.

The next route would be to mod the 1.6 CVH, you could do lots to the CVH like Turbo it, get it bored to 1750 and run it on twin 40s but then the question of originality will come up as the twin coils would have to go, unless your willing to spend out on getting a mappable ECU installed.

Probrably the best thing to do is mod the original engine, get the bottom end rebuilt to basically standard spec, maybe lighten and balance the crank and flywheel. Get a stage three polished and ported head with an uprated cam like the CVH27 from kent cams, and fit a xr4i/capri 2.8 throttle body, this'll all run on the twin coils no problems and your looking at 130 plus BHP

This is basically the spec of mine, only to this im adding a Turbo Technics kit

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If you original engine was tired like mine, it was probably only kicking out about 95bhp, even if it ran beautifly (mine does)!

If you want to keep it original, I seriously think with a ported head, higher compresion runing the original management you would be looking at near 130-140bhp which would make it very lively.

Otherwise if you don't want to keep it original, skys the limit!

I'm a little worried about originality, but at the same time like performance, so as a compremise if I alter mine, I will keep all the original stuff to give the next owner the choice These cars have a lot of history and class, so it's tricky modding them, as you could get carried away and forget about their heritage. But at the same time, your dealing with wires and stuff which is 23+ years old.....