Right im basicaaly wondering here lol does anyone know if a 16v head from an escort will fit on a 1.6 fiesta engine? And do u think the exahaust an inlet manifold from the fiesta will fit the head? Any help plz
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Could you be a little more specific. There have been quite many different 16V engines on Escorts and quite many different 1.6 engines on Fiestas.

 

sorry...right the 1.6 fiesta engine is the 1.6s from a h reg fiesta. Has no injection. The engine code is LUH. Basically i was wondering if there is any 16v head that would fit onto it. I looked at the 1.6 escort mk5 and it looked lie it would fit...just wanted to see if anyone knew about it.
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LUH, so it's a 1.6 CVH with a carb. The Zetec head will physically bolt on to the block as is, but it's quite a mission to make it work. Biggest problem will be four oil return passages in the head that are missing from the 8V CVH block. It will be much much easier to just drop a complete Zetec in there.

 

as jesse says there are extra oilways that over hang the block of the cvh. i did try to sort this out years ago. with a 1.8cvh block (which has the same head gasket template as the 1.6) and a 1.8zetec head. youll be pleased to know that all the passages line up with each other. SO... what ya need to do is have a de-compression plate made, thick enough to take a union fitting and return the oil to the sump. then ya need a zetec head gasket and a cvh head gasket to mate them together. then you can runn silly boost on a small 16v unique engine. youll also need to match up a cambelt of the right length to take the extra pulley. however the crank in a cvh has been known to bend/break at 300+hp, whereas the zetec one will take significantly more. hence i gave up on the idea, it was too much work for little gain, and just n-a tuned my 1.8cvh.