has it been done? could someone provide me with any info on this into a p reg 6n polo? many thanks

put a 1.4 16v into it, 100bhp out of the box and they require nothing custom made.

put a 1.4 16v into it, 100bhp out of the box and they require nothing custom made.

hi could you provide an engine code also i presume loom and ecu will be needed?

is there much tuning wise and does it make them much quicker

cheers

i think its the afh one. i am going to be doing that same conversion myself.

y don't you look into the diff engines available and the power outputs and any difficulties in doing a conversion, you could also try the faqs in the tech section

excuse any spelling mistakes i'm on the stella lol

plenty of engines available i was wanting to know which fit best, polo 1.4 16v good shout but only a 100bhp, golf 1.8 are 112 i believe and will be cheaper to tune etc only needing one cam instead of two

plenty of engines available i was wanting to know which fit best, polo 1.4 16v good shout but only a 100bhp, golf 1.8 are 112 i believe and will be cheaper to tune etc only needing one cam instead of two

Doesn't fit though.

It's pretty much the same effort to fit a 1.8 20vt lump into a 6N as it is any of the older Golf 'big block' lumps - so I know which I'd rather do...

On the other hand, a 1.4 16v AFH motor will drop straight in and show 110-120bhp on the dyno if you tweak it a bit (chip, exhaust, air filter). Check the FAQs on here for a few different ways to convert it into a 1.6 16v AFH motor too - Jez's original UK conversion ran on the AFH ECU with larger injectors, and with just a different exhaust and manifold put out 140-145bhp. A nice set of cams and a custom map would've seen a bit more still.

plenty of engines available i was wanting to know which fit best, polo 1.4 16v good shout but only a 100bhp, golf 1.8 are 112 i believe and will be cheaper to tune etc only needing one cam instead of two

Doesn't fit though.

yes they do, just takes more effort to fit them. As said tho its the same kinda work (fabrication wise) as fitting a 1.8t. If you are serious about this sort of conversion forget about the 1.8 8v and look towards the 2.0 16v abf out of the mk3 golf. Around 150bhp standard and the same amount of work to fit. The golf and polo share the same fuse box before 1997 so if both cars are before that the wiring should be plug and play. Post 97 polo/golf's may share the same wiring too but i have no experiance with them so can't say for sure.

^^ Other engines that dont fit,but can be made to fit with fabrication,include the VR6, bike engines, Integra TypeR, etc..

By 'doesn't fit' i was answering someone who was concerned with having to deal with replacing two cams when they could just deal with one. They want something cheaper to tune than a valver. That's not someone who's gonna put a tall block in there.

I'm currently running-in an alloy block high-comp 1.6 16v I've thrown together with bits of various engines. Its so light i carried it fully built from the back garden to the car and it has plenty of grunt using only the VW parts bin so i dont need to spend £££ on aftermarket cams.

Can go pretty far with the short block,even without chargers.

can anyone tell me which vw's the 1.4 16v is found in? i presumed a mk2 engine would be fairly easy as coming from vauxhalls originally pretty much any big block engine fits its smaller siblings with relative ease as conversion kits are available off the shelf for most applications

you've lost me? Now you want to put a vauxhall lump in it?

If you are still talking about vw engines its not as easy as you seem to think. I don't know of any kits to fit the big block lumps into the 6n so you would need custom drive shafts, engine mounts, exhaust, a front cross member made, and a good chunk cutting out of the engine bay so the gearbox will fit. These are just off the top of my head and no doubt there would be many other custom fabrication needed.

This isn't a bolt in job by a long shot mate

the only reason all vauxhall engines fit in any of the vauxhalls, is because instead of refining the design, they just stuck with the same for ease. to presume every other car maker is the same, is a mistake.

there is an faq'd thread about sticking large block motors into small block cars, id suggest a read on there, and then if your serious to consider it, pop over onto clubgti

ignore me, just reread your post and saw i had misread it

in vw's that take both the big and small block engines like golfs its a simple swap over, but the polo's only take the small engines so you have to shoe horn bigger engines in. I guess there arn't any off the shelf kits to do this sort of conversion because there is so much fabrication involved.

has it been done? could someone provide me with any info on this into a p reg 6n polo? many thanks

put a 1.4 16v into it, 100bhp out of the box and they require nothing custom made.

Just buy a 1.4 16v Mk4 Polo, its not off the shelf but put in at the factory from the beginning.

only paid £250 for the car with a yrs test and 6months tax i'm sure i won't find a 16v for that price

The Polo and Golf of the mid '70s were two completely new cars which looked the same but for the size. These Volkswagens were watercooled and front wheel drive,with transverse engines.

Technically,the same twin concept was put forward - a large engine and a small engine. And a large gearbox and a small gearbox.

Both were fitted to the Golf but the Polo was only engineered to accept the small engine and gearbox. It was not designed to accept the large engine and gearbox,which is why its a mission to fit them.

The third generation car was also only designed to accept the small engine and gearbox,although it did get the diesel version of the big engine (still only with the small gearbox). Not until the 6k variants and fourth generation models (9n) did cars engineered for the big engines wear Polo badges,due to their spiralling size and weight.

Eventually (UK market),the bigger engine spanned from 1.5 litres to 2.0 litres,with the smaller engine ranging from 0.9 litres to 1.6 litres.

So that's why its such a problem to fit a 1.8 to Polos before the fourth generation.

Vauxhall's Nova of '83 (Corsa-A) was designed to take the OHC engine,which is why a 2.0 drops straight in.

Some other marques were the same. Though Ford may spring to mind as an example,the Fiesta was designed to take the Kent and impending CVH engines which Ford only stretched to 1.6 litres each. The 1.8 CVH of the Sierra was from the US and had many differences. But eventually the european CVH was given a twin cam 16v head,stretched to 1.8 and 2.0 litres,and named the Zetec - hence dropping a 2.0 into an early Fiesta became easy.