BX16V.com Forum

Hi all

i thought i'd join and say hello, even though as some of you already know i don't have a bx i have it's little brother zx 16v
and seeing as we share some parts and definatly the knowledge i thought id drop in

Welcome aboard, your Zx looks very nice.

Hey whitty!
good to have you here matey!!
funnily enough i was going to post a link to zx16v.net last night afer seing it in your sig on pgti!

Welcome on board.

I didn't even know the ZX 16v's had a site! Its about time. Bit late for me, I sold mine to a mate

i think zx16v site has been there a while but it was always in dutch until recently it's a slow site though there is not many of us !!

As said on pgti mate, 'Its good to share the love of the unloved'!:D

nice car an welcome aboard!

well winter repairs have started !

lets hope i can afford cams while it's in bit's!

and i must wrap that manifold while i can get to it !

Good work mate. Yours looks quite similar to my old one:

yep that's how mine looked when i got it !

1 careful owner 40,000 mile car

then i got my hands on it !!

Hello mate glad you dropped in.
You looking at some nice juicy catcams then?

Cheers
Luke

yeh cat cams is one option, i have heard tell that i will be ok just replacing the inlet cam and cat cams do supply just the 275 inlet so alot of people must be doing it, what cams you running luke?

I have the piper regrinds but opinions are very varied on them but the racer ran them for a while and I saw real gains from them but if doing the work now I would defo be tempted by catcams - I may even swap the pipers for some before I get the proper remap sorted but we shall have to see.

Do you have the 2L iron block with the smaller valved head in your ZX or have you got the late vts/GTi-6 lump? I may have asked you thid before

Cheers
Luke

mine is the 2.0 cast block with the mi16 type head, this has bigger inlet valves and valve guides to the gti6 head although the gti6 head does have larger exhaust valves also apparently the earlier engine had an oul spray bar on the underside of the pistons which the gti6 bottom end didnt have, im yet to take the gti6 engine apart to see if this is correct but this is what i have been told and it would account for the no of gti6's having bottom end problems maybe

hi there,
looks from the photo that you had timing belt failure at some point judging by the valve teeth marks on the pistons.

rossco