A mate has just bought a Rona RT132 18R 5sp for his first project car. Seeing as this site was so helpful with my wagon, I thought i would ask for some hints and tips on modding it. It's gonna be a daily so nothing too extreme, but a 3SGE would be nice eventually

 

Any assistance would be much appreciated..

Edited November 4, 201411 yr by ae71wagoneer

You can do anything to the starfire you can do to a 186 or 202, its basically a holden 6 with 2 cylinders lopped off, so all tuning knowledge applies from those engines which have been worked a lot historically.

 

You can bolt in an r engine from an rt132 but thats not too exciting. Youd be best with a beams, a commodoore v6, or an sr20 for ease of installation. If you want a gen 1/2/3 3sge its a lot more work to bring the fwd motors into rwd.

 

Could also consider a hilux rz engine.

Rt132 should have been a 22R?

 

Waste of time with the 18r, there were orignally design for a van, even with a twin cam head and all the money in the world, you'll really struggle to get 200hp out of it.

Oh my bad, yes its an 18rc car, needs more 18rg, disregard my first post. Brain fart.