My Rover VTEC Coupe

Jonnycoupe

Jonnycoupe

Jonnycoupe

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Hi,

As some people may be aware the early Rovers had the 1.6 D16 engines in. I have a Rover Coupe which only ever came with the 1.6 SOHC Honda engine, (not twin cam as ths would probably show up the 2.0 litre NASP Rover lump)

The car was bought as a project, nice bodywork but a blown engine, well close to blown, 5 miles up road it through the conrod through the block, was a legit RAC call out at least

I fitted a DOHC D16 from a Concerto too it (D16A9, just like in the CRX) Managed to make 154bhp from that engine with breathing mods and lots of ignition advance, after looking into more power there was little for D16 engines. B16 tuning mods seemed in abundance, as did the high power output storys. I found a CRX VTEC for sale with front end accident damage, and my mind was set on making a VTEC powered Rover Coupe with huge tuning potential.

Well after lots of research head scratching and good 'ol engineering the engine is fitted and working perfectly. All done by myself on my driveway

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And looks OEM fit, just as i intended.

All i can say is VTEC is awesome, 8000rpm is quite sublime and im sure many Rover have gone off the speedo clock before (mainly the Rover 220 Turbo's) but very few have hit the 8k mark on the tacho.

I was at CCC Action day last week in it, after getting some nice brakes on it, he real search for power will begin

Hope this is of interest to some of you guys

Jonny
 
Hello all , thanks for the nice comments

The engine mounts are all custom ones, made by me. The gearlinkage is a CRX one and the exhaust manifold from the CRX fitted my exhaust system

ECU is also a PW0 UK CRX VT one, which is running everything perfectly with no ECU errors and no aftermarket controller, the drivshafts are hybrid ones i built after lots of headscratching. I was confused at first as the VTEC spool wire pin to the ECU was already filled, the honda diagrams didnt show anything of this wire on the 1.6 16v models.. but of course they never made an automatic CRX, plenty of Rovers though, the wire was the Auto lock out, just spliced into this wire, added 2 more for oil pressure at spool valve and a lamdba, then was getting a TPS error code, swapping the lambda sensors wires over sorted this though (the engine has 2 lambda each monitoring a pair of cylinder banks.

My donor car was stripped and the bits sold covered the cost of the car... effectively i got a free engine and running gear, oh and ive got a Spoon VTEC controller to play with aswell.

Going to PTS RR next weekend to play with ECU mapping

Ill be at pod on 18th May revving to that 8k mark.

And soon will be aquiring bits for a turbo conversion :)

Cheers

Jonny
 
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