Please can someone help me out.

my bottom end on my Turbo is prity much fooked, its cracked 2 pistons and the con rods dont look to healthy,
so i have been pricing up how much a set of low comp pistons are to replace mine, and a set of new con rods and a re-bore just be be safe.

the pistons are £400
the con rods are about £100
re-bore about £80ish

so i recon im looking at about £600 to re-build my bottom end. so if the standard CVH bottom end is going to cost this,is it worth going down the ZVH route instead.
so what i need to know is how much roughly is a 1.8 zetec bottom end going to cost to have built in parts and machining.

i dont want to go 2.0l really, 1.8 is fine for me.

cheers

 

Ive got a 1.8zvh, u could build one for under £1000, well I did with new pistons etc etc, It really depends on how far u want to go with the engine as u will have to upgrade clutch/gearbox

 

u need to talk to ian h at area six

 

whats the point of building a 1.8?

 

well the cars running about 200bhp,and has an uprated clutch fitted anyway, so that side of things is sorted anyway,
its just a matter of, do i build the cvh bottom end back together, or build a zetec bottom end.

 

well, 2 reasons for me,
1 is that you can use the standard CVH headgasket on the 1.8
and
2 i dont want to put to much torque throw the gearbox, as there not the stongest of gearboxes on the cvh unless you go buy a uprated box

 

who?? what??

 

Erm.... Ian H @ Area Six

 

In my opinion, I would build a zvh they are more reliable than standard cvh bottom ends, But if I was to build another 1, it would be a 2.1 with vauxhall 16v mahle pistons as it costs about the same

 

MR ZETEC if u want hes number just pm me

 

Course it'll be better... your upgrading the parts...


So you cant really compare it to a standard bottom end

 

if both r built right both r just as stong as each other

 

I used standard zetec pistons in my 1.8 and everything else standard on the bottom end

 

standard pistons in a turbocharged motor! unreal

 

did you have the pistons machined then?? and what bhp you running on the standard zetec parts??

 

Build me an engine

 

 

Yes machined 30 thou off them, Its 186bhp@ the wheels, had it in for 3 years and its never missed a beat

 

do a top speed run and then see what happends

 

THATS WHAT I DID AND MELTED NO3 PISTON BIN THE STANDARD PISTONS ,IVE JUST FITTED ACCRILTE FOGED 1S 400 NOTE BURTON POWER AND FULLY REBUILD BOTTOM END FOR UNDER A GRAND

 

will the standard con rods be up to 200bhp on the standard zetec??

 

i got standard rods just wish at the time i went for steels all them years back and oh t34 and 16v