Fiat Punto HGT - Engine Rebuild

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Re: Fiat Punto HGT - Engine Rebuild

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You still have the hydraulic tappets I believe? If you want substantially more power, you most likely will have to go higher up the rev range. That will require solid tappets, different cam profile, different piston springs, possibly bigger valves and a porting job that is matched to the flow you will be needing to get to that power. Basically, everything in the head will need to be taken to the next level. I don't know if I would want to do that with a 1800 myself. Even if you're not going up the rev range but "only" for bigger valves, you still need a lot of work done.
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Yes I have hydraulic tappets...I am thinking to replace my Colombo camshafts with a set of Cat camshafts...

Specs :

duration [0.1mm+cl] 291° - 278°
duration [1.0mm+cl] 252° - 244°

maximum lift [cl=0] 10.75 - 10.00mm
lift at TDC [cl=0] 3.65 - 3.10mm

timing [1.0mm+cl] 21/51° - 47/17°

REQUIRED PARTS : followers CC002 , retainers O.E.M , springs O.E.M

But without any other modification in cylinder head...
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Re: Fiat Punto HGT - Engine Rebuild

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Just getting a single part replaced to gain you a certain HP number is not how tuning engines works. Every boy racer that has bolted on a noisy exhaust, "power filter" and a chip from an internet auction site thinks he's just added 40% to the power of his engine. In reality, very rarely do they get even close to that figure, when the car gets tested on a dyno. More often than not, they are down on power, compared to stock. Changing your cam profiles will require a new flow strategy and most likely, reworking your head and possibly manifolds to match that.

Keep in mind that all the parts in the engine are a combination. if you change one thing, it is very likely that you will have to change others to benefit from the part you changed initially. Sometimes, you have to change parts to even just make the engine run at all. Often, a gain on one end, will cost you dearly at another place. Just going for maximum horse power may make the car hard to drive and slower on the road or track. I would recommend that you will think through carefully what direction you want to go. After that figure out what cam timing, flow rate, compression and all other factors you need for that. Then get all the parts that will get you there and do the machine work to the head and optional other parts.
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Re: Fiat Punto HGT - Engine Rebuild

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Mr Croft can you tell me more details about this :
viewtopic.php?f=6&t=1431&p=7580&hilit=punto+hgt#p7580

If you know cam specs, mechanical lifters, valve are Fiat ones or aftermarket, springs and retainers ?
How it is possible to run without shims ? I think that is possible to damage the valve...
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"Changing your cam profiles will require a new flow strategy and most likely, reworking your head and possibly manifolds to match that"

Not true, not as a general rule anyway. A change of cams can yield good results (not always, depends how good the cam desing is compared with the OE setup, header, CR..) but be in no doubt that unless the engine management system is remodelled to tell the engine about the new inlet and exhaust event there will likely be power loss and sever risk of detonation.

But if the cam supplier cannot substantiate power gains (from actual test) with the new cams you don't know what you're buying.

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My apologies for wording it so strong without any example. What I meant to bring across is that if you make drastic changes to your cam profile because you want a lot more power from your engine, you should have a head that matches the flow requirements from the cam.

Imagine your original engine is designed to give good torque between 2500 and 6500 rpm, peak power, 135 BHP around 6000 rpm. If you want that engine to give 190 BHP, you will have to make it go at least 7500 RPM, probably over 8000 and the usable torque will not be available under 4500 rpm. To get all that extra fuel required for the extra power burnt, you will need to be able to flow a lot more air through your ports. Putting a "fast" cam in a head that is optimized for the 135BHP example, will not make the head pump much more air, because the ports are too small. Going for an engine that will run 7500 RPM and above for substantial amounts of the time, will require a change to solid tappets. The weight and design of the hydraulic tappets will no longer be sustainable at that RPM rate.

From what I understand, you have a "fast road" setup now, that still gives considerable attention to low RPM drivability. My interpretation is that you want to get substantially more power out of your engine and the only way I know of doing that, without using a turbo or compressor, is going for the full race high RPM configuration. That is a totally different way of setting up an engine, hence my post about having to do a lot of work. I hope this makes my previous post more clear.
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New rods finally ready...
440grams instead of 688grams Fiat ones...
H beam shape
This is my Christmas present :)
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Finally ready...
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Re: Fiat Punto HGT - Engine Rebuild

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Engine works fine, I have done around 200 miles
I will change oils and i will make an other 1000miles...at the end of the month i will go to my mapper to connect the idle valve and make some changes to fuel/ignition maps...
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Almost certainly some combination of the above.

All the talk is that these engines are less amenable to tuning than the old Fiat twin cam and the 20v Coupe engine (which a few people have put into HGTs).

I think the final set of BTC Alfa 155s used the 2 litre version of the Alfa/Fiat twin cam -- the precursor of your engine. It would be interesting to know how much power they were putting out -- they were fast enough to be the car to beat.
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fingers99 wrote:Almost certainly some combination of the above.

All the talk is that these engines are less amenable to tuning than the old Fiat twin cam and the 20v Coupe engine (which a few people have put into HGTs).

I think the final set of BTC Alfa 155s used the 2 litre version of the Alfa/Fiat twin cam -- the precursor of your engine. It would be interesting to know how much power they were putting out -- they were fast enough to be the car to beat.
The 155 BTCC used a 16V head like on the Delta 16V and an 8V engine (no balance shafts). The head was reversed so the inlet ports would be on the front of the car. It's a totally different engine and the rebuild time on those was 30 running hours max. Usually, they would start each race with a fresh engine, or have it used just one race before. A 280 BHP figure for a 2.0 sounds impressive, but is not comparable to something you'd put in a car you are driving on the streets and that has to last for more than a week.

Try the (Dutch) Alfa 156 challenge, they had roughly 200 BHP from "almost street" engines and I know of a road car that had one of these engines put in after the competition ended. Almost street still means fully flowed head, custom cams, and custom exhaust. Mind you, that's a 2.0 and this HGT engine isn't. It is however almost identical, minus the CCs and 4 spark plugs for the Twin Spark in the Alfa.
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Re: Fiat Punto HGT - Engine Rebuild

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At the middle of March when I was mapping the car unfortunately the head gasket blow from to high advance timing between water hole and bore and the engine flood of water.

I change the head gasket and the piston rings and now i have done around 800 miles, everything is fine.

I want to say a big thank you to my friend and engine builder George Sevdalis (Sevdalis SuperFlow Center) for all his help and support.
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Re: Fiat Punto HGT - Engine Rebuild

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176 hp at 7400rpm and 19.1 Nm of torque at 6500rpm, poor colombo barianni cams - dunapack dynamometer - new custom MLS gasket to avoid failure again

If I change the cam timing with less peak power then I will hit 20 Nm of torque at mid range and a lot of faster car...but I will stay with the current setup for now
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Nice result!

howewer.. I´m building 2ltr engine for my stilo 1.8 (because of lot of oil consumption and worn clutch)... as the block is the same as Alfa 2ltr TS engine...(instead of balancing shafts)

It utilizes stock Alfa/Fiat parts..

Barchetta engine block lowered by 0,6 mm due to lower CH of stilo abarth pistons
2ltr TS crankshaft
Stilo 2.4 pistons (will get higher CR, but not so Hight like 2ltr JTS in comparison to stock 2ltr TS pistons)
2ltr TS camshafts (has similar parameters like C&B medium road for 1.8 stilo), but with reprofiled intake one to 270°/ 10-10,5mm lift
AR 1.8 TS EU 2 headers (without cat),54mm pipe and stilo abarth backbox
Due to comfort functions of the car and communictaion between bodycomp. and ecu I will haver to use unichip for engine map...

I want to get near 165BHP.. and I see that it is possible.. from 2Ltr...it could be wery easier..
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