Im currently in the process of fitting a vaux engine to my mini, ive got an engine sat in the shed waiting to go in when my new subframe arrives. i kinda rushed into buying the engine tbh as i thought i had picked up bargain of a donor car with a c16se (nova GSI engine), but it turns out ive actually got a x16szr (same i think just with Single point injection) and only ~75bhp
Ive got the wiring and ecu that came out of the donor and m planning on just chopping out the mini engine wiring and basically powering up the standard vaux ecu and loom so if i change engines im going to need the whole lot again
now i dont mind fitting this to start with to get it up and running but i think i will get bored with such little power
a friend of mine is pretty up on his vauxhalls told me i want a x18xe1 from an early vectra etc. as it is the model before they added all the silly imobilisers but looking on the bay the ecu's are silly money and say they need to be programmed to your key etc.
what do you need to get the car running? someone suggested buying an suitable donor, doing the same as i have with the 1.6 and just taping the key to the barrel so the transponder for the imobiliser is always active, but which bit receives the transponder signal? dont tell me i need to swap the barrel aswell?

sooo many questions lol.
cheers all.