20-06-2012, 05:02 PM
Hello!
I'm a guy from central Finland, Jyväskylä (where the wrc rally's being held).
Currently working on a '94 306 conversion. It (was) an s16 with the 2.0 16valve engine, that went well for 330 000km (around 200 000 miles), last 30 000km driven by me.
Then things went horribly wrong due to a long-term problems with oil pressures which i thought were electronic issues (the oil pressure gauge sometimes went quickly to zero, and then back to normals on hard cornering etc.). Turned out it wasn't, the engine quickly shredded itself to pieces...
Anyway, I soon after that recognized that the s16 -engine was harder to find that I thought... 0 in sale in Finland & Sweden, no point shipping it from further away. I looked in to it and made the decision to use the 2.0 8v turbo engine from an '97 406 (only 2 were in sale in Finland!!) because I thought it'd be pretty much bolt on, except for the wiring and some hoses and pipes.
So now i'm at a point, were the engine is perfectly fitted to the chassis and the gearbox, but that's pretty much all right now. Quickly figured out that the 406 intercooler won't fit at all (it's HUGE), so i'll have to find a different one. The easiest way to do it i reckon would be to build some longer clamps for the radiator so that it'll fit a little bit further back (closer to the engine). That way I could bring the cooler pipes straight from the top of the radiator, since the pipes from the engine come out quite high, practicaly from the top of the engine.
So that'll not be a big issue.
The issue for me right now is the ecu's immobilizer... It'd have to be bypassed but can't find anyone here in Jyväskylä who knows how to do it... And I've understood that it's not the easiest d.i.y electric -sh*t to do.
Anyone done the same conversion? any thoughts, ideas, hints, tips?...
Ps. would've posted in photos if i'd figured out how to...
I'm a guy from central Finland, Jyväskylä (where the wrc rally's being held).
Currently working on a '94 306 conversion. It (was) an s16 with the 2.0 16valve engine, that went well for 330 000km (around 200 000 miles), last 30 000km driven by me.
Then things went horribly wrong due to a long-term problems with oil pressures which i thought were electronic issues (the oil pressure gauge sometimes went quickly to zero, and then back to normals on hard cornering etc.). Turned out it wasn't, the engine quickly shredded itself to pieces...
Anyway, I soon after that recognized that the s16 -engine was harder to find that I thought... 0 in sale in Finland & Sweden, no point shipping it from further away. I looked in to it and made the decision to use the 2.0 8v turbo engine from an '97 406 (only 2 were in sale in Finland!!) because I thought it'd be pretty much bolt on, except for the wiring and some hoses and pipes.
So now i'm at a point, were the engine is perfectly fitted to the chassis and the gearbox, but that's pretty much all right now. Quickly figured out that the 406 intercooler won't fit at all (it's HUGE), so i'll have to find a different one. The easiest way to do it i reckon would be to build some longer clamps for the radiator so that it'll fit a little bit further back (closer to the engine). That way I could bring the cooler pipes straight from the top of the radiator, since the pipes from the engine come out quite high, practicaly from the top of the engine.
So that'll not be a big issue.
The issue for me right now is the ecu's immobilizer... It'd have to be bypassed but can't find anyone here in Jyväskylä who knows how to do it... And I've understood that it's not the easiest d.i.y electric -sh*t to do.
Anyone done the same conversion? any thoughts, ideas, hints, tips?...
Ps. would've posted in photos if i'd figured out how to...