ThePogs Fiat X1/9 - Suzy is knocking at the back door

[ThePog]

Found a bit, a Ribe M12 type whatever that is.

Nothing bad but the head gasket around the bad cylinder number 4 is a wrongun, its squished away from the bore.

 

Also number 2 looks pretty lean, might be the carbs I guess. Who the fuck would want carbs?

 

A japanese engine is looking more appealing right now.

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There is this bit of ugly down number 4, cant tell if it's a crack or just clag from sitting 

[ThePog]

Cleaned it up a tad

 

Everything else looks fine, but something was pumping coolant the wrong place..

[ThePog]

So I found a fairly serious corrosion pit in that bore, enough to make me think it would need proper work to be good again.

Hence I furthered the search for a Suzuki M16a and manual out of a Swift Sport.

Tonight then;

 

Naturally I scanned that bitch right away and put it into my engine bay scan;

I can probably make that work....

There are a couple of issues, the axles are not particularly well lined up with the hubs, but CV's so whatevs. They would end up a bit shorter than the standard suzy ones so I would have to make sure the CV's could cope with the travel required.

That axle alignment is not helped by the exhaust, which would probably need to be redone a bit tighter to the block so the engine can move forwards a bit. There is also some weird big disc/diaphragm thing as part of the oil filter housing that kindof gets in the way;

 

Fuck knows what it does but its in the way.

 

Also the gearshift tower looks pretty easy to mod to point towards the front of the engine, and if the lever actuation direction can be swapped at the same time then I can use the gearstick/shifter unmodified. Nice.

 

The intake wouldn't fit either so I guess that means ITB's, oh no what a drag

 

 

 

[ThePog]

Well thats interesting, I put one of the scan pics up on a X1/9 fb page and this got posted;

 

So that is extremely promising..

[ThePog]

The more I look the more suitable it seems. Like when I overlay the engines, ie where the X actually sits and where the suzy wants to be, the axle position is pretty much exactly the same. And the existing engine support crossmember will only need a couple of tweaks to clear, but still leaves heaps of room for the exhaust to run beside it.

I will strip some more shit off the engine this weekend. It sucks I have so much other shit i really need to finish before I can really sink my teeth into this, I am fizzing for the fun to start....

[ThePog]

I have snuck an hour or so here and there to fiddle a wee bit, ie removed and labelled all of the loom stuff still attached and took off the massive intake. This morning I printed a plate to bolt onto the intake ports and cover the holes. Forgot to take a pic tho.

Also today I modded the shift tower to be 90 deg rotated, and now points to the front of the engine.

This was pretty trivial IRL, the forwards/backwards lever was held on the shaft by a roll pin inside another roll pin, so all I had to do was knock those out and drill another hole 90deg around.

Then I chopped off the pivot for the left/right lever and fabricated a new one that is held by the tower bolts;

 

Ill obviously need to set up a new cable holder bracket but that should be easy.

Some mental gymnastics took place for all this and one part of that is that now the lever directions are flipped, which means the shifter will work as per the normal pattern but spun 180deg with the cables poking out what will now be the back, so it can go in the cabin probably unmodified.

It will probably still need some loving but in principle that is sorted.

[ThePog]

Well well

[ThePog]

Mostly happy with this setup, I will need to extend the cables by about 200mm but I may just thread the solid ends and extend them with some more solid, then sort bracketry to hold and guide it all. This will be later though.

The gears work in the correct way too

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Can anyone tell me what this bit of kit on the engine is?

Mostly so I know it is safe to bin it and block off the hole.

 

Also there is a blanked off hole where I assume a speed sensor is on some variations down on top of the diff. I may need one to road dyno shit so does anyone know a part number or a vehicle to rip one off?

[ThePog]

Oof

[ThePog]

I kindof needed to know before getting too carried away..

 

Its kindof tight because of the exhaust, looks like I will need to remake it or mod it a bit tighter to the block.

But in essence, yes.