It is, its just not welded in i dont think. Its had the best part of £25k spent on it, fully modified. Smoothed engine bay, throttle bodies, 220+bhp. Stack dash etc.

I'll get another picture of the engine in a sec. Even the drivers seat has been moved to sit dead on with the stearing wheel.

Yeah, the early 20XE is what i've got. HEads were designed by Cosworth, known as COSCAST heads. Less chance of the heads going porous (but they still do, water/oil mixing). Think the inlet ports were slightly larger, plus better material used. Early 20XE's came with forged pistons. Came with 155bhp and no cat. The later C20XE came with a worse made GM spec head, very similar, but just not quite as good. These came with cats (Hence C20) and came with 150bph.

Im still un-decided as to turn my XE into a throttle bodied go kart, or putting the 2.0 Turbo (C20LET) into my corsa like my missis has. Hers just leaves me as standard, and i do mean it really does leave mine. Mines happy enough to see of Focus ST170's without a problem, but its pretty heavy. Theres a lot quicker 2.0 corsas than mine running a standard lump.

Not amazing, just good fun..





This birds turbo..