block for 205 gti

[mr-zed]

I have a 205 1,9 gti with a dead engine - probably bad bearing/crankshaft, I dont know yet.

If the head should be fine, Is it possible to use a xu9 1,9 block from a 405 and move the cylinderhead etc from the gti engine!

The 1,9 gti engines are becoming hard to locate!

Regards

[Goliath205]

Yes that should work as they are almost identical engines. Failing that I have a spare 1.9 engine here (and about eight spare 1.6 engines!) if you need it, let me know if you are interested.

[mr-zed]

Thanks! - I live in Denmark, I guess I should look in the local area first ;-)

About the xu9 engines - I belive they came with different pistons and compressions - which 405 xu9 would be the best block to use? Does any of them share the same pistons as the xu9ja engine?

What about oil pump pressure?

Regards Brian

[Soton Pug]

What does the tag read on the 405 engine? D6B?

[shalmaneser]

This is fairly helpful...

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PSA_XU_engine

note that you can't put a 16V head on a 8V block, or vice versa.

Looking at the wiki stuff, it looks like the 405 SRi block might be similar, possibly lower compression? probably a selection of minor differences that would turn the whole operation into a bit of a nightmare!

Either way, i'd say you're much better off sourcing a running gti engine, or rebuildng your existing one, as long as nothing too horrible is wrong with it!

[HereBeMonsters]

mr-zed said:

The 1,9 gti engines are becoming hard to locate!

Really? I have one in my garage that I need to get rid of. Free if you can collect from Southampton!