Substitute Engine For Xantia

[avedis]

Hi,

 

I have a Xantia 1.9 turbo diesel, but the head has cracked.

 

Replacements over here are hard to come by and cost double the value of the car!

 

What other engines can be relatively easily fitted?

 

I have an option for a 1999 ZX very cheap, will this engine fit?

 

Many thanks

[Guest Colin Hunter]

If the ZX is a turbo it will probably go straight in as long as the Xantia is also an XUD engined car. I believe later cars had what was basically a modified XUD known as the DW8. The visual difference is that the XUD has the dipstick incorporated into the oil filler tube on the front of the engine and the DW8 has the oil filler on the cam cover and a seperate dipstick. I'm not 100% sure on this but I do know that later (MK2) 1.9td Xantias had ECUs and electronically controlled Fuel injection pumps, whereas the ZX TD was purely mechanical. The best way would be to look at the engines and if they look the same it should be alright.

 

You don't say where you are but Peugeot 405s, early 406s, as well as 306s and also the Suzuki Vitara Jeepy thing had the XUD turbo Diesel fitted, among others.

 

Cheers Hope this helps. :unsure:

[kfk]

the engine fitted into the Xantia are as follows:

XUD9TE - DHX, DHY, D8B

 

The ZX19TD, Xsara Mk1, Synergie use the same engine ......but the injectors, pump, flywheel maybe different

 

if the engine you find hasnt got markings that relate it to one of the following references 'XUD9TE - DHX, DHY, D8B' i would leave it, even if it looks the same.

 

Had an experience a few years back where a customer fitted a peugeot 1.6 lump into his bx1.6......we wernt told until we ha spent a good few hours trying to sort his running problems. The engine was identical externally.....but the exhaust/inlet valves were bigger and the camshaft was incorrect!!!

[Guest Colin Hunter]

Couldn't understand why the camshaft would matter until I remembered that the BX drove the Hydraulics fom the free end of the camshaft!

 

Cheers

[kfk]

Couldn't understand why the camshaft would matter until I remembered that the BX drove the Hydraulics fom the free end of the camshaft!

 

Cheers

 

It was the valve lift / overlap aswell