General chinq engine ??

[richcinq]

Its getting there. Had a break from the engine at the weekend and moved on to the wiring which is not too far off now. The engine is coming out again this week so I can finish welding and tidying up the engine bay as well as paint it and put all new brake pipes in. A friends dad who owns a engineering company said he will make me some 1 piece driveshafts when I give him the lengths to save welding the two together so hopefully they will be stronger(all I have to do is pay for the material, Result!!). I have aqiured a higher pressure fuel pump so that got to go in too. Yeah it is tight in there for working on but I work on forklift trucks for a living and you should see some of the spaces they expect you to work with on them! the cinq looks spacious! I am going to have the battery and the bottles for the coolant, washers and water injection iside the car in order to get as much air around the engine as possible. I am going to use an electric water pump to overcome the problem of the standard waterpump pulley rubbing on the body and use 2 cinq rads run in series(one on either side of the car with the intercooler and oil cooler in between as the electric pump has the power to do this. Hopefully I have thought of everything as its probably too late now! I will have more pics soon.

Rich.

 

[custard]

linked this to the faq as it has loads of info re: 1.4

 

[Fivehundred]

I am going to have the battery and the bottles for the coolant, washers and water injection iside the car
Rich.

If you have the expansion bottle and battery in the car make sure you're well shielded from them. Knew a guy years ago who rolled his car and got trapped. He was perfectly OK apart from some VERY nasty non healing scars from battery acid leaking on him.

Pete

 

[T.E.D. Jordan]

Gel/ lead acid sealed batteries for that nowadsya i believe to be legal? I know in autotracking the batteries had to be in a leak proof casing when my mate did it in his mini.

You are of course right though

Jordan

 

[arc]

sealed or not, crash it and i bet u could crack the battery casing!

 

[T.E.D. Jordan]

True. Thats why Gel batteries are the way forward. Yuasa do some of the best
Jordan

 

[The younger modder]

sealed or not, crash it and i bet u could crack the battery casing!

i crashed my mini and the battery did not crack :slayer: instead the crash caused so much force that the battery ripped away from the leads pulling the earth out the floor and the battery flew out and half a mile down the road

back to topic, it sounds like your doing well rich, the one piece shafts for cost price is damn lucky, the mini guys with vaux/v-tec conversions pay around £320 for this service alone

wayne

 

[simi]

iv desided to wait untill i have time to do the ut chinq im gonna get the body work finished of first its a pain when your at college lmao £45 a week would take me a year before it would be finished but in away givs me more time to revise the work that goes into it keep the info and pictures cooming its great

 

[davethetrike]

dumb question
Why won't the uno turbo fit a 1242 8 valve?

assuming it doesn't?

 

[SkinzCinqSporting]

dumb question
Why won't the uno turbo fit a 1242 8 valve?

assuming it doesn't?

Do you not mean why won't the UT lump fit in a cinq without lots of work?Due to it's size. Also why would anybody want to replace a 1.4 Turbo engine with a 1242cc 8v N/A engine

 

[rallycinq]

Do you not mean why won't the UT lump fit in a cinq without lots of work?Due to it's size. Also why would anybody want to replace a 1.4 Turbo engine with a 1242cc 8v N/A engine

I think that the poster was suggesting fitting the turbo from an Uno Turbo to a N/A cinq engine to save having to do the complete transplant.

We, of course know, that the the engines are diferent.

Cheers

D

 

[SkinzCinqSporting]

I think that the poster was suggesting fitting the turbo from an Uno Turbo to a N/A cinq engine to save having to do the complete transplant.

We, of course know, that the the engines are diferent.

Cheers

D

Or they meant that, I struggle to think at the moment, Sleep Deprivation

 

[custard]

dumb question
Why won't the uno turbo fit a 1242 8 valve?

assuming it doesn't?

there different engines
the turbo is really too large for the 1242
you still need fueling,exhaust,low comp pistons etc so no real saving there