Basically i need some oppinions, is it worth moddin/upgrading a felicia, or just sack it off, trade it in for peanuts n buy something else. I own a white facelift Felicia 1.3 LXi. The car is immaculate, not a spot of rust, it's just passed 18,000 miles. An excellent start for modifications (shame to ruin such a clean car maybe, but im gonna get nothing for it so what the hell) And her trade in value is going to be around

I think the yellow Felicia had a VR6 lump in it iirc.

Its a tough one tbh, here I am modding Felicia type vehicle myself but I cant help feeling the urge to recommend you sell it up and get something else if you want a fast motor.

Either keep it and appreciate it as it is, or dispose of it and get a car which has better dynamic qualities as standard.

Oh well, guess ill be trading it in then. Ill miss it but it's dynamically challenged, could try a golf gti or something alike.

That yellow felicia was a Vr6, i think it was an awesome gti jobby :rubchin: Could be worth giving them an e-mail and seeing if i could get any info on a similar jobby lol, i live only a few miles away from awesome

Now im contridicting myself

Buy my Octavia vRS!!!!

i heard rumours about a 200bhp fab VRS from a work colleague, now that would be hot, and worth doing more thna any golf or felicia.

in regards to teh brakes, mines a 1,3 N reg, and i find the brakes x20 times better than on my 1.1 saxo, which was only runnign 15"s. the feliicia corners same speed as the saxo did, but just rolled more, but theres also more feel than with the saxo, the saxo was mroe fun to drive tho, but the felicia kicks a bit more in gear. yours is white yes ? can you get some nice green stickers and rally style it ?

Felicia's can handle pretty good, just they roll loads. I think if you lowered it and stiffened it a little and got some 15" wheels it'd corner a lot better.

As for brakes, it really depends on what you compare it too. Try 195 tyres.

As for the engine, I think you can change the cam and replace the conrods with shorter ones to make it 1.5 and it'll put out about 130bhp, which is awesome...

I've got a 1.3MPi, all I've done is put a cone filter on it. I'm looking for a manifold and turbo configuration that'll fit for it. If your friendly with your local breakers, ask them for a 6 speeds gearbox that tops out at about 120mph. So it's still close ratio as they 8v engine doesn't have a massive powerband.

Rally stickers would be awesome, mines nautic blue, so that wouldn't work.

I was probably a little harsh on her actually :(

As i see it, modifications would involve

Engine - Rally spec 1.3 mpi (though i suspect horrific fuel consumption) 1.8t though im not sure if it would be to heavy and courupt the cars balance. Apparently JBS have undertaken the job on a felcia fun, would be interesting to see how it turns out. And possibly a 1.6 8v supercharger/turbo combo.

Steering - Heavy and to much arm twirling, 3.7 turns lock to lock i believe. I don't know if powersteering from a 1.6 model or diesel could be fitted to the 1.3 to aid agility.

Handling - Sports springs and dampers, perhaps anti roll bars or something, though perhaps just the suspension would do it. 15inch alloys and 195 tyres would be a plus.

I think that would be the core principles, though this alone would probably cost 10 grand or something. And for that money you could simply buy a fabia vrs anway.

Shame though, make a nice (if expensive) project. In my eyes the felicia certainly has potential as it was rallied succesfully at one point in it's life.

why not keep it as a pet project and get another car for your main one?

Then you could tinker in your own time!

I've been having restless nights thinking about a 1.8T swap in my felicia, it would be a good sleeper!!