Rover Metro High Lift Cam

[Kris French]

Does anyone know where i can get a high lift/performance camshaft for my L
reg Metro Si 1400 8-Valve Single Point Injection.

Cheers,
Kris

[Marty]

Fuel injection engines don't like performance cams (unless you get the ECU
setup on a rolling road) A Mini cam should fit.

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Post by Kris French
Does anyone know where i can get a high lift/performance camshaft for my L
reg Metro Si 1400 8-Valve Single Point Injection.
Cheers,
Kris

[A.]

Post by Marty
A Mini cam should fit.

Not in a K-Series.

To the OP:
http://hometown.aol.com/dvandrews/kengine.htm
should have everything you need to know.

[Kris French]

What do you mean by mini cam?

Post by A.

Post by Marty
A Mini cam should fit.

Not in a K-Series.
http://hometown.aol.com/dvandrews/kengine.htm
should have everything you need to know.

[Kris French]

my engine isnt a kseries. K-series are twin cam and mine isnt

Post by Kris French
What do you mean by mini cam?

I'm assuming the poster who referred to a mini cam was talking about the
cams available for the A-Series engine used in Minis and Austin Metros up
until 1990.
As you have a 1.4 Rover Metro, this uses the K-Series engine which is
completely different.

[A.]

Post by Kris French
my engine isnt a kseries. K-series are twin cam and mine isnt

Err, yes it is.

It's a 1.4 K8, found in the 1.4L, 1.4S, 1.4SL, 1.4GS and 1.4GTa. From around
1992 many were given single point injection, before that they used the SU
KIF 44 (I think) carb.
This gave us the 1.4Si and 1.4GSi.
K8 means K series 8 valve (single cam).

The 1.4 K16 is found in the GTi 16v Metro, both single point (1991) and
multipoint (1992), as well as the Rover 214 and 414.
K16 means K series 16 valve (twin cam).

You can get a K8 in 1.1 and 1.4 forms, K16 in 1.4, 1.6, 1.8 and 1.8VVC
forms. And there's the KV6 but we won't go into that.

I've owned both a 1991 1.4GS and a 1993 GTi 16v.

[Sean]

Post by Kris French
my engine isnt a kseries. K-series are twin cam and mine isnt

A series engines went up to 1275cc in production. The K series was used in
the last of the metros, early rover 100s ( ie, the metro shaped thingie ),
rover 200, 400 etc etc.

If you have a 1400, it is a K series. They were available in sohc and dohc.

IFAICR, the 8v sohc was carb or SPI, the 16v dohc was SPI or MPI

Other posters have pointed out it fairly futile trying to do anything with
an SPI 8v engine. The 16 MPI however is an absolute gem of an engine if
maintained. 103bhp stock without the cat, about 95 with. Bit coarse at
times, but a nice engine none the less.

One poster posted this link. You will find reference, but not much, to the
8v engine.

http://hometown.aol.com/dvandrews/kengine.htm

If you can find a good k16 1.4 + MEMS, it will drop straight in and provide
much more power than the strangled 8v.

I have driven an 8v Rover 100, a 16v 100spi and my old 414 16v mpi and
beleive me, the difference between them is marked.

[A.]

Post by Sean
The 16 MPI however is an absolute gem of an engine if
maintained. 103bhp stock without the cat

The 103bhp was *with* the cat (standard) on the MPI!

Needless to say, I junked my cat and played with it a bit.
When I sold it the guy had it rolling roaded and it came back with 121bhp.
Then he wrote it off two weeks later :-(

Wish i'd kept it now.

[Dave Plowman]

Post by Kris French
my engine isnt a kseries.

If it's a 1400 Metro it is.

Post by Kris French
K-series are twin cam

Not all were.

Post by Kris French
and mine isnt

The Metro fitted with the 'Mini' A-Series engine didn't have fuel
injection.

[Kris French]

learn somethin new every day. lol

Post by Kris French
my engine isnt a kseries. K-series are twin cam and mine isnt

Err, your engine is a K-series.
Rover produced a large number of K-series donks for the Metro,

encompassing

the 60 PS single cam 1.1, 75 PS single cam 1.4, 90, 95, and 103 PS 1.4s

with

two cams.
Later on, they'd come to release other variants of the 1.1 and 1.4, too,

not

to mention the 1.6 and 1.8! :)
But your Metro _has_ a K-series donk.
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[Tim..]

Post by Kris French
Does anyone know where i can get a high lift/performance camshaft for my L
reg Metro Si 1400 8-Valve Single Point Injection.

Don't bother with the 8 valve Spi. A high lift cam will do bugger all in the
8v especially strangled by the spi. Find an early-ish (i.e. non immobilized
ECU) 1.4 16v out of a GTi or 2/400 Sli and transplant that for instant
103bhp.

Tim..


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