First off Welcome.
Hope you like it here and have fun.
You best bet will probably be to get a donor car. I am not sure about the 1.6L as I am in the states but I know the 2.0L Duratec is setup backwards from the 2.0L Zetec and you would require more Duratec parts. I know that Going from a 2.0L SPI(SOHC) to a 2.0L DOHC Zetec basicly only requires the motor, tranny(I beleve the SPI tranny is to weak for the bigger motor), and ECU(computer) The blocks are the same and I beleve the drive train is also. You may be able to swap to a 2004(or lower) 2.0 Zetec without to much trouble. Also it may just be easier and cheaper to find a used 2.0L duratec car. There have been people over her wantign to do the same thing but have not yet and I also read about a guy(well his wife was pressuring him) wanting to just change from manual to an automatic and a lot of people just told him it would be cheaper just to find a used auto focus and to get the DOHC motor at the same time as he had the SPI motor.
All I can say is research the price on the parts and than add in labor. If you are planning on doing this than add what your time is worth. It may be cheaper and lees of a headache to pay 4-6 grand for a used Focus. I'm not sure what they are going for over there tho.
Last edited on Thu Jan 13th, 2005 02:18 pm by fx3
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