Hi all new to the forum and looking for some advice on a engine for my kitcar.

Looking for a 200-220 bhp engine to mate to a ford type 9 g/box, so whats the best engine to get and the easiest way to get the 200+bhp.

Fiesta
escort s1
escort s2

As far as I can tell the fiesta has less power and only looking at chipped ecu's doesn't have the same bhp gains as the escort

Any info will be of great help

Cheers

Jools

 

you are after any cvh turbo engine with a stg2 t3 on it with a decent front mount intercooler standard cam and a shed load of boost should get you up towards 200

 

S1/S2 Engine

Chipped ECU

2wd Cossie T3
2wd Cossie Turbo exhaust flange or equivilent.

Your biggest problem is fueling system as they're K-Jet unless you use the EFI from the Fiesta.

You don't need anything mega for that horse power apart from the cossie Turbo and adequate cooling/fueling.

I assume its going RWD and you're fabbing stuff yourself

 

the main issue you are going to have is space, if you go for a turbo charged engine you have to allow for the turbo intercooler and cross over pipe, assuming its a caterham style kit car they dont have that much frontal area so you may have more luck fitting a 2 litre zetec on throttle bodies. also the power delivery in these is far more linear so less likely to end up backwards in a hedge