1.8 Turbo

[mark_airey]

Tbh I've got very faith in the tuning capabilities of the Sri engine. Peugeot 8 valves seem to be fantastic (there was 1 or 2 people on the 106 forum running almost 300bhp from the early 1.3 rallye engine!) but as said, boring!
There must be a reason Peugeot used the 1.8 lump in the wrc car and I want to find out why!

Dave would be epic if you could bog it and get chronic smoke like a derv.....oh wait..mine does that at the moment anyway.
Going to phone the exhaust place today and get a rough idea of price for the manifolds then start looking at a way of getting the map off of the 1.8 ecu to use temporarily until it goes for mapping.

I'm not saying you can't tune the SRi, I know you can, you just need to throw lots of money at it and in standard form they are shite, and I'm not saying 8valves are crap either, as you say, Peugeot made some very good ones (look at the 205 1.9GTi) but why have 8valves when the other option gives you 16? you might as well do something interesting and different hadn't you. Its a good project and there must be some reason why they chose the 1.8 over the 2.0!