Engine info needed !!!

[Yorkshire Cup]

Hey all ... my car died on me yesterday on my way back from heathrow .. first of all the oil pressure warning light comes on while i am stuck in a traffic jam on the M1 then after about 5 mins la8er i start hearing knocking sounds from the engine so i get to the nearest service station by this time the car sounds like a tractor !! anyway had to call the AA out ! And they told me that the Bigends have gone and the smallends and something to with the springs on the pistons ... so now i need your help i was told today it would be cheaper to bang another engine it in then get my one fixed .. true or false ?? . have been looking for engines today but most of them are 1.4 16v but mine is 1.4 8v would a 1.4 16v fit into mine and if so would i need the ECU from the 16v or would mine work fine or anything else i would need as i dont have clue when it come to engines etc ...

hope someone can help !

stephen

(my car)

2000 W reg
1.4 8V
Clio S

 

[bmh.01]

The 16v engine will require more work whereas the 8v will just be a striaght swap. You'd have issues with the insurance etc if you put the 16v engine in too and its probably not worth the hassle of getting it all working either.
Best to just find another 1.4 8v lump and drop that in, would've thought they'd be going reletively cheap.

MATT BLACK on here should be able to source you an engine I would have thought.

 

[edde]

Stick another idential engine in Matt on 01254386661 will have one in stock I'd imagine sounds lik your cars been running with no oil so would be gone but get a garage to check first might just need a new oil pump.

 

[Dj Marky MarK]

Hey all ... my car died on me yesterday on my way back from heathrow .. first of all the oil pressure warning light comes on while i am stuck in a traffic jam on the M1 then after about 5 mins la8er i start hearing knocking sounds from the engine so i get to the nearest service station by this time the car sounds like a tractor !!

My last car did exactly this but I was doing 70 at the time before going BANG!!!

Did you not have any oil in the engine??

 

[MOFO]

fella i know what this problem in his 1.7 puma, on the motorway doing 90 when oil light came on, 1hour later, ( BANG) He now gets lifts everywere lol

 

[MATT BLACK]

E7j 780 - 1.4 8v £295 + Vat

 

[Matbrown]

Hey all ... my car died on me yesterday on my way back from heathrow .. first of all the oil pressure warning light comes on while i am stuck in a traffic jam on the M1 then after about 5 mins la8er i start hearing knocking sounds from the engine so i get to the nearest service station by this time the car sounds like a tractor !!

Did you not think to turn the engine off when the oil light came on? :S



Mat.