Failing to sell my Felicia as I want a faster car, I've thought about making the Felicia faster. But apart from dropping a bigger engine in it, I can't think of anything work doing to give big gains........ Unless anyone has any ideas, and cheaply lol.

its a 1.3 mpi by the way

how fast do you want it to be? and how much you got to throw at it?

Cheap as possible, I was thinking golf gti 8v engine? Just want it to pull well nothing stupid.

it's not worth it for that engine, go through all the ball ache for it to be just 115php..

still think the best small budget choice engine for the felicia is the 1.4 16v engine from a 6n polo for 100bhp, could be done for about £350 if you can find a cheap enough engine

any kind of engine mods I can do to the mpi engine?

i wouldn't bother tbh, there's absolutely nothing cost effective you can do that is worthwhile doing to it.. i know that sounds harsh

but before all the chavs come along and tell you that a K&N will give you another 100bhp or something i wanted to get in first..

K&N filter made mine run ****ty :p only thing i found worthwile doing was removing cat. maybe slightly faster but definatly smoother, especially low revs. just passed mot too

Yeah, the 1.3 8v engine needs considerable money throwing at it to get anything worthwhile out of it, and the only reason you'd do that is if you are limited by competition regulations to using it. You can get good power from one (140bhp), but it will cost you 20 times what you can do a 1.4 16v conversion that Tom mentions above, if not more than that.

just thought about head work, or cam? But think I'll just have a stab at selling it and buying another diesel.

itsanaudi: When you won't spend much money, the best way is selling felicia a buying f.e. honda crx, nissan sunny or vw golf... It is the easiest and cheapest way to more horsepowers.

Edited 9 April, 201115 yr by Skury

It's not just a case of head work and cam, it's that the standard injection won't give you the power you would get from it - not a Skoda issue, one from just about every standard car, you need to remap to get the power from the modifications you've made, and that adds £££ to the cost.

Good job I own A&D Remaps then lol. Its going annyway, want another metro gti

I had a 1.3 eastate some years ago that was brought with a blow head gasket.

I had a hefty skim and a new head gasket and it went like sink and NEVER PINKED.

I would love to know if the eastate had a low ratio Gbox maybe this would explain why my friend in his 2lt auto cavilar was finding it so had to keep up with me.

just got a skoda agin as my ford capri is drinking too much fuel these days

I cant wait to get a second hand head give it a good skim , some light porting , and a 30 degree back cut on the valves. ok i might need a fse vavle but i just get them second hand ebay £15 them mod them to fit pos low back presure exhaust system.

But a £50 head skim and mild porting would be where i think you should start

iirc the alloy skoda heads have a 30 back cut on the seats already.. darren will know though, he's a hard core 1300 fanatic

The standard valves are quite tulip-shaped. The ones I have one my current head and the ones on the ex-works head I had were both far more 'penny on a stick' so I guess there's something to be had from that. Most of the heads I've seen have had HIDEOUS machining round the valve throat where the machined section meets the raw casting - cleaning up here will give some benefits, I'd think - certainly seemed to make an improvement on my early GpN car I had.