Adnic69 0 Posted January 4, 2007 Search has been done I bought an Mi16 off jackherer. I was going to drop it in as is, just change the belts and water pump. However after having time to think about it and plan it makes sense to give it a rebuils while it is out the car. I was going to whip the head off, get it acid cleaned then with a die grinder/dremel clean all the casting marks off and smooth any edges that could improve flow. Get qep to do the 3 angle valve seats and get some 264 regrinds put in it. I will get the bottom end checked to see if it needs doing or if its ok. Put it all back together and drop it in with the 1.6 box. Questions are 1) Is there anything else I should be doing while its out? 2) Is fitting those cams to a road car a good idea and will it need verniers? 3) Roughly what sort of power can I expect? It will be on std inlet and exhaust manifold and ecu. Later will be on a megasquirt. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
smckeown 1 Posted January 4, 2007 wouldn't it be a good to do at least a minor bottom end rebuild ? I'd never put an mi in without this to be honest. Keep the crank safe and keep the oil pressure up etc Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Anthony 1,000 Posted January 4, 2007 Do the bigend bearing shells as a matter of course (the Mi's biggest weak point) and change the cambelt, waterpump and ideally tensioners as well. Alan_M on here has the Kent 262 regrinds on standard pulleys on his mostly standard Mi16 (3 angle seats, balanced bottom end, 4-2-1 exhuast, but otherwise standard rebuilt engine) and his is pretty quick - I'd estimate about 175hp which is similar to the figures that Andycrook has seen when he's dyno'd cars with the same cams. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Adnic69 0 Posted January 4, 2007 Will do the bottom end too then, best to be safe. Are they ok running on those cams on std management/inlet or do they kangeroo and have a rough idle. Do Mi's kangeroo or is it just the 8v? Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Anthony 1,000 Posted January 4, 2007 Are they ok running on those cams on std management/inlet or do they kangeroo and have a rough idle. Do Mi's kangeroo or is it just the 8v? They're fine - tickover is a bit lumpy sounding (but steady) but otherwise it's well behaved. Mi's are much less prone to kangerooing than 8v's, so you shouldn't have any problems. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
