Hi everyone,

After years of Skoda ownership I thought it was about time I joined the forum. The question I have is will a 1.3 engine out of a Felicia bolt into my Favorit? Over the last year the original engine has been rebuilt but it is suffering with headgasket failiure (its on its 3rd in 900 miles) I've been informed by the garage that the head will not tighten down correctly between cylinder 2 and 3, so rather than flog a dead horse I would sooner replace the engine completely but keep the single point injection system.

Any advice will be greatly received !!!

Thanks,

Hefin.

Failing that choice I have a complete 1.4 MPi engine and gearbox for sale inc engine waiting harness and ECU for sale if your game.

Yeh the felicia engine is a straight swap. I had a felicia 1.3 spi engine in my favorit but i've now got a 1.3 mpi engine that I'm putting in. I can't quite remember but I seem to remember there being an issue with the flywheels, think I had to fit the favorit flywheel to the felicia engine but they are interchangeable...

The fabia 1.4 engine isn't as straight forward due to different engine mounts and i think the flywheel bolts on with 6 bolts so the favorit 4 bolt one wouldn't fit...

Also i picked up the 40k mile mpi engine for only £70 from a local scrappy...

Thanks both for the quick reply and thanks for the offer of the engine Tech1e but I think I'll keep it simple and stick with a felicia unit.

If its only the flywheel that needs swapping (I take it the crank sensor is the reason) I'll be happy with that. Are there any other parts that could be problematic? (engine mountings? exhaust/inlet manifolds?)

Your scrapyards are a lot cheaper than down here !!

Thanks again.

All you need is a single point injection felicia and just swap the whole thing over straight swap.. But I guess there's no reason you can't put an mpi lump in there too.

Cheers teflontom.

I did think of going down the VW 1.4 16v route but knowing my luck I'll end up with a pile of parts and a dead favorit again !!

Do it.. You won't regret it.. You need to think of a way of sorting out the rear engine mount though...

Oh yeh there is one thing I just remembered, the lower stabilizer mounts are different... there is a bracket that bolts onto the back of the favorit block for the stabilizer mount to fit to. The felicia has the stabilizer mount attached to the flywheel bellhousing bolts...

The felicia block is clearly cast the same as the favorit and has the markings of where the favorit bracket bolts on so I just drilled and tapped the block and fitted the bracket.

What I'm describing is for the mpi engine anyway, I can't remember if the spi engine is the same, I think it might be the same as the favorit but someone else will need to confirm this. Tom???? When I was hunting round the scrappy's all I could find were mpi engines, I think the spi models are getting pretty rare....

Don't know sorry, I'm not an expert on the 1300 engines, jim will know for sure.

If I were you, I would do the 1.4 16v conversion!! The only reason I didn't do it was because of insurance...

Thanks for the info on the bottom mounting, time to start looking for an engine for it.

I'd love to do the 16v conversion and the car is worthy of it but the cost of the insurance and engineers reports that have put me off.Its been out of sight and out of mind for so long (stuck at the back of the drive for six months) I just want to get it back out on the road. I'll get some pics of it on here as soon as I can.

Has anyone got an engine near South wales thats for sale ?

if the felicia motor is SPI then it should be a straight swap but you may need to drill and tap the rear stabiliser holes on the block if its a later block (1 is there and the others have pilot markings to drill from)

if its an MPI donor then you need to swap the inlet manifold and distributor over from yours and the flywheel too but make sure the flywheel goes on in the correct place as otherwise it won't start (there is a dowel hole in the crank so just make sure the dowel hole matches with the shadow on the rear of the flywheel)

also the mpi will need drilling and tapping again for the stabiliser, can't think of anything else you would need to do tho.

my old 1.3 mpi lump is in my mates rapid just got to wire it up in there so a felicia lumps do fit other skoda's

Yes the bellhousing has remained the same right from the old S100 (maybe older) biggest pain with the mpi in to a rear engined car is the lack of spigot bearing in the crank as the crank boss is part of the crank on the mpi engines.