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Ok Since I live in BFE and their are no junk jards in the area i am going to just rebuild my 1.8.

I was wondering if any one knows of a place selling any total rebuild kits? or any place who knows ALOT about these who can get me performence parts.

What is the Max I can BORE the pistons? What is the biggest valve size can I go?

TURBO has any one found a TURBO that will go on a 1.8?

Holly madea proinjection kit for chevy engines doea any one know of a bolton fule injection like that?

What could I do besides an engin swap to get this running GOOD. Please any and all of your suggestions. I know I wont get a roaring engine but at least I will have a good engine for a 1.8.

some isuzu impulses had a (1.8? 1.9?) turbo EFI engine that supposedly bolts in

i'd stay the hell away from holley pro-jection, heard too many bad reviews. weber has unveiled made their universal fuel injection system, but for 1600, i'd reconsider what you're doing with the 1.8.

Hey Kyle, do you know which year impulses had that engine and will a stock LUV tranny bolt on to that motor

i know how to get a turbo for the engine but you might wanna put on the g 200 head i hear it lowers compression ratio for the turbo but the guy that sells the kits is busy right now later he can do it it goes for cheap pm me about it

oh and also these engines can be souped up probably about 300 horsies if you really good maybe more turbo will add a good 50 hp at least or more jus depends i would rather have a v 8 though in a way

so with an impules can I keep my 4 wheel drive? If any one knows the turbo kit let me know. I would like a V8 But i really need the 4X4 where I live. And as i am understanding the g200 head will foit my stock engin?Thanks

the g200 head is identical to the g180 head. the valves aren't any bigger and i won't change compression. i looked up the specs on the head a while back and they were the same. the head on the turbo impulse has bigger valves. the turbo impulses are hard to find. and you have to swap all the fuel injection stuff and computer. grimace is in the planning stages of doing this swap so he will know more. i don't know about 300 hp. i don't think it would hold up to that long before it blew. would also be very expensive. most super and turbo kits are more than $1000. instead of reboring a 1.8, find a 1.9 out of a isuzu pickup. or you can also swap in a 2.3. you can use your same trans with both of these engines. the 1.9 is a direct bolt in basicaaly identical to the 1.8 in every way. the 2.3 might require a little modification on the motor mounts. a 1.9 with a header and a weber will put out some pretty good power.

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1980 chevy luv 4x4 1.8 liter
1979 luv long bed parts truck
1984 2wd isuzu pup parts truck

"A man who says it can't be done shouldn't interrupt a man doing it."

well the kit is 800 dollars + 100 shipping from someone i know and bolt

on kit but he is backed up on orders hmm i was reading at a site dont

remember the address but it said it had lower compression i ll do some

more digging though i didnt notice any power difference when i swapped

the g 180 (cause bad cracks) for the g 200 for 50 bucks only here is a

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looks good

The fella with the supercharger kit in Ben from Australia
he also sells turbo kits
i'm pretty sure they run a 1600 engine from from the early luvs and a 1800 head on it to get lower compression.

http://www.hotgemini.com is the site, geminis run the same stock engines as the luvs so any engine mods they do to the gems you can do to the stock engine in the luvs

hope that helps

Who has put in a 1.9. I'd like to hear the difference it made. I am thinking of doing a rebuild on my 1.8 and have everthing balanced (i have a mechanice who wil give me a good deal otherwise woudnt do all the balacning), then putting on a header and seeing if I can get a high-flow Cat.

i believe the 2.3L is diferent. The 2.3L and the 2.6L are perty well the same (like the 1.8L 1.9L and 2.0L) but i think they are diferent from the smaller guys. I know the bellhousing partern on my 2.6L is diferent than my 1.8L.

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1980 LUV 4x4, going under re-construction...

the 2.6 has a different bellhousing than the 2.3. isn't the 2.6 a v6? the 2.3 is a 4 banger. the 5 speed tranny that everyone swaps into luvs is from troopers with 2.3s. the 1.8 or 1.9 never had a 5 speed tranny to my knowledge. so if you can swap the tranny of a 2.3 and use it on a 1.8, why can't you use a 2.3 and bolt it up to the 1.8 tranny. i will know what kind of a power difference the 1.9 will make in a couple of days. i'm in the process of swapping them out in my 80 luv. from driving the pup with the 1.9 it seemed like it had a lot more power, but could have been the gearing. the 1.8 its replacing was pretty worn out ( smoking and fouling out plugs) so it will probably make a big difference in power. i can compare it to my 81 luv ( rebuilt 1.8 with weber and header). so i will know if the stock 1.9 is stronger than a upgraded 1.8.

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1980 chevy luv 4x4 1.8 liter
1979 luv long bed parts truck
1984 2wd isuzu pup parts truck

"A man who says it can't be done shouldn't interrupt a man doing it."

The 2.6L is a I4 and is based off the 2.3L design. I've heard of more than one person using a 2.6L block to replace a dead 2.3L and even a couple going from 2.6L to 2.3L block (keeping the fuel injection from the 2.6L even) It can be done, somehow. What I don't know are what details you need to put it all together,

I think the main difference may lie in the clutch. I believe the 2.6L they switched back to a hydralic clutch. The other possibility is that the rear plate on the 2.6 and 2.3 can be interchanged to make either motor mate to either trans. When I looked at clutch parts for my 2.3L Trooper I noticed the same clutch kit applied to it as to a 79 4x4 LUV.

The V6 first used in troopers was the 60 degree GM 2.8L with throttle body injection. It does have a very different bellhousing setup, but the manual and automatic trans used is the same box as the 2.6L