Xs Engine Conversion?

[jamie_1992 66 1 Cars]

I'm wanting to do an engine conversion for my 1.4 xs I want a bit more power but not loads as I have my gti for that I'm thinking an injection engine as I want reliability but I may go carbs as it is a simple option thinking either a 1.6 or 1.8 as also want economic as it will be my daily driver

Any info will be appreciated thanks

[Simes 248 2 Cars]

Leave as is.

[johnnyboy666 195 1 Cars]

I agree with above, xs's are awesome completely standard

having said that I've recently had a 106gti engine put in my gt to replace the tu3s, and it suits the car well IMO

[aarontrophy 26]

How did the conversion go mate?

[MiniGibbo 142]

Got a s1 rallye engine in mine and yeah it's by no means powerful but out on the country lanes is pure smiles per miles.

[calvinhorse 870]

I love my xs, straight through middle pipe made a big difference.

Having the head skimmed helped aswel

[MiniGibbo 142]

Dont XS's have straight through B pipes anyway..?

 

Think my rallye has a xs b pipe as its a oem straight through jobbie and going by the motorfactors diagrams mine should have a silencer.

[welshpug 1,661]

TU3S has a different part number to the rest, does have a centre silencer, as does the proper rallye, anything else doesn't have one unless its an XU or XUD turbo.

Edited November 17, 2012 by welshpug

[Batfink 201]

I agree with above, xs's are awesome completely standard

having said that I've recently had a 106gti engine put in my gt to replace the tu3s, and it suits the car well IMO

 

I'm after an XS - cannot get them for love nor money!

[calvinhorse 870]

Dont XS's have straight through B pipes anyway..?

 

 

 

....no

[jamie_1992 66 1 Cars]

ok so say i keep the xs engine what can be done to get a few more ponys out the engine

[Anthony 1,003]

I do wonder if you're trying to make it something that it isn't - the XS isn't meant to be a straight line bahnstormer, but rather a fun package that's eager and joyful, part of the enjoyment being squeezing every last pony from the free-revving engine and short-ratio 'box, relishing the handling benefits that the featherlight engine brings.

 

Your other thread about putting a TD engine in would be a borderline crime frankly - unmolested XS's are getting so thin on the ground that it would be a shame to ruin yet another one, stripping it of the very item that makes it what it is, and replacing it with a lazy, smokey boat anchor.

[calvinhorse 870]

Just the basic tuning methods,

 

Raise compression- skim head or aftermaket pistons

 

More air- ported head, bigger carb (ford 34/36), turbo? Supercharger?

 

Alter the rev range- cams, balancing

 

It all depends what's in your wallet

 

How much have you got?

[jamie_1992 66 1 Cars]

the td conversion is out the wind after realizing how rare these are getting

im not looking for loads of power out of it just a little more than its offering at the moment as it just feels a little sluggish low dont the rev range

[Anthony 1,003]

Get the car in good order before condemning it or deciding that it needs more power.

 

The engine should pull cleanly throughout the rev range, pulling hard right around to the redline - if it's not doing that, then there's something amiss, quite possibly the carb needing an overhaul as chances are that it's not been touched in well over 20 years. Once it's running as it should and you've bought the rest of the car back upto fine fettle, I reckon that you'll not feel the need for more.

 

It's probably a controversial opinion, but I for one reckon that an XS is the pick of the standard 205's, atleast those available in RHD (I'm sure a Euro Rallye is even better, but I've not driven one and they're really scarce on these shores) and unquestionably in terms of value for money. I really loved my little XS and I should never have sold it - I loved the way that it just begged to be driven with exuberance, loved the way that it made even a GTi feel a little ponderous and nose heavy, and loved the simplicity and purity of the whole thing. Only a lack of space stopped me from buying it back when it came back up for sale.

 

It wasn't fast, it didn't have masses of grip, and it sure as hell had little in the way of modcons, but criticising it for that would be missing the point by a county mile. Put simply, the XS is everything that the UK Rallye never was, yet bizarrely, one is a near unknown, and the other has undeserved idolisation heaped upon it.

 

Have I waxed lyrical about it enough yet?

[Batfink 201]

If you want to significantly modify a 205 then sell the XS and get another base model that really does not matter

[N3VRAM 12 1 Cars]

If you change the engine.. let me buy yours?

[jamie_1992 66 1 Cars]

If I do il probs do it this summer