Engine Swap

[Jamin Berry]

I was just wondering how hard it would be to straight swap a 225 lcr engine into a mk3 ibiza. I guess you would need the gearbox and wiring?

Would the main dealership be able to do it? Who else could do it?

 

[PhilW]

Why would you want to do this?

Be cheaper just to go the turbo upgrade option.

 

[Scotty_b]

Is the car in Q a 1.8t in the first place or a 1.4 ors im? You would be far better off goingto a specialist like VAG Tech than a main dealer as most of them really dont know there arse form there elbow!

 

[Deleted member 9043]

Why would you want to do this?

Be cheaper just to go the turbo upgrade option.

i thought rods and pistons from 225 hp engine are stronger?

 

[Jamin Berry]

Yeh i would be buying a mk 3 cupra to do it with.

And ibi your point is the reason why i was wanting to do it.

EDIT: Do you have a link for VAG Tech? I googles them and didnt come up with anything..

Thanks

 

[acidstrato]

zero point

ibiza's internals are more than capable for most plans

could spend a shed load on the ibiza 1.8T instead

 

[h17och]

www.vagtech.co.uk

 

[Scotty_b]

There was someone trying to sell his IHI'd cupra a while ago and it wouldnt shift due to the mods but if its what your want you would be laughing if you could get one done as its far cheaper that doing the mods yourself. If i had seen a modded leon/beezer i would have gone for that.

Plus that way you can spend more dosh in getting her just how you want her!

 

[jNx]

Reverse the question, what BHP are you after?

If it's 225 then a £250 turbo upgrade, air filter, exhaust, Frount mount and remap will (about £1,500) will be good for about 240-250

 

[wazo]

if your interested in know of a jabba IHI running 340bhp for sale

 

[Jamin Berry]

i was looking to tune the 225 engine. I just thought it was alot better base for improvement than the standard engine in it. My friend had an lcr that had had some engine work and was very good(fast). And in a smaller car....

 

[wazo]

dont really see the point tho even if you did put a 225 engine in an ibiza and had a remap you would only see around 260bhp ....... depending on turbo on standard ibiza you will see any thing from 240 -290 bhp going upto ihi 300+ the inners of a 1.8t are more than capable of handling his power without being uprated as they are in the 225 it would be cheaper to buy a lcr and have it ihi`d

 

[acidstrato]

not really...money you would spend on buying and fitting you could do some serious stuff to the original lump, only the turbo and intercooler the real limitations

 

[truCido]

im sure I've seen this argued about somehwere....and people said about compression ratios and stuff dont really understand it myself though!

Surely a 225 engine from a LCR wouldnt be that expensive?? especially if you sold the original 156 lump as well?

 

[wazo]

fit wise staight swap just need the engine mounts off the 156

 

[Jamin Berry]

so the engine mounts are the same on the 225 and 156 right?

What about gearbox? Should i/would i have to get the one out of the 225? or would the standard one be sufficient?

 

[acidstrato]

just cos its straight forward to fit doesnt mean its cheap...ok gonna save money if you can do it yourself

from what iv seen looking at anything like £800+ for the lump

gearbox is different cos LCR is 6spd, not sure if 02j box will go straight on or not??

for the money im sure u could get a BT fitted and mapped, would piss over a k04

 

[Jamin Berry]

wats a BT?

 

[acidstrato]

Big Turbo

 

[Daz_gibbo]

Plus, you saying that the rods/pistons in the LCR are stonger? That isn't exactly true iirc..
Which makes it even more pointless