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Marlin 5exi builds Calling all you sexi builders....sorry 5exi builders, show us your progress.

 
 
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Old 19th June 2007, 18:52
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Originally Posted by grant620 View Post
Anyhow - I'd recommend for ease:
1.8K
R65 box
1.6 clutch and flywheel
1.6 head (ported and flowed - even better with big valves!)
Is the Rover ECU easily remapped? How would one take adavantage of the 1.8 mated to the 1.6 ported head?

To get back on topic, if doing all this work, then one might as well be repairing the currently defunct 1.6...... and it's cheaper to buy another engine, and drop that in... and a 1.8vvc with pg1 would be easy enough to drop in.....?
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