Here is a handy special tool for 16 valve engine. Works only on LH head though. For the RH side I had to carve one out of wood.

Wow.

For me this was first time seeing this magnificent piece of engineering and craftsmanship. It is amazing, and in many ways extremely huge improvement on the VW based kit.

Many thanks for sharing!

Thank you all for sharing the knowledge! For some reason it never came to my mind that the wiper motor has something to do with park position of the wipers. On my S3 33 the park doesn't usually work, and the intermittent position has variable breaks between the wipes, might swipe twice or more, and ...

My wife has had a Fiat 500 with the 1.2 petrol engine since new (2014) and at the moment there is 105 000 km or so on the counter. It was our no. 1 car before having kids. Parts that have been replaced so far are: - hinge for driver side door handle - battery - brake pads - airbox bushings (well act...

Good stuff! Lowering plates feel a bit edgy, but I definitely don't have the experience to judge. I remember that some Corvette guys talked about head gaskets with (slightly) different thickness. Not sure if it's something that is available for Alfa boxers, but for the 350cid Chevrolet small block t...

I have broken one set of spider gears, so that is why I thought it would be the weak link :mrgreen: But that was probably just because in 2007 or so the younger version of myself though it would be a good idea to launch the car with clutch from traffic lights. :roll: The Opel clutch sounds interesti...

Thanks bobkelso! That is some very interesting information! Sourcing reasonably priced stock parts from other engines and using them for performance is pretty much what I have been doing so far. :D Did I get it right that the later KA24DE-IV pistons would not have the problem of piston skirt touchin...

Thanks! I have a project thread on alfabbs.fi forum, but after finding this forum I though this would be better place to share wisdom and get hints and tips on boxer engines. Future plans include installing engine back to car :D I did a rather unsuccessfull engine overhaul last year and managed to m...

You are correct, I mounted the turbo above the engine block. It's in about same location where the pipe between stock air flow meter and air filter used to be. resize_DSC04815.jpg I have seen some turbo installations on 8v boxers in same location, but in my case the bigger 16v heads made it more cha...

I can only imagine what that part cost from dealership back in the day Glad to hear you got the part you needed!

I know a guy here in Finland who has a new old stock viscous coupling for 33 P4. Taking in account that we are talking of quite rare parts, it's probably the very same which was linked here in 2017. I asked him and he could sell it abroad if there is not too much trouble with shipping/duty/whatever ...

Has anyone here done a turbo conversion for a 16v boxer engine? I did for mine couple of years ago, and back then I wasn't able to find any project threads. There were some photos and videos of 16v turbo boxers, but that didn't get me very far with thinking how should I do it and what parts should I...