1.8L 2016 sonic sedan upgrades
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Bl4d3
Member
Basically you can only do a cold air intake and exhaust. Maybe get a tune if you're in the States.
To be honest, you wont see any performance gains from intake and exhaust without doing a tune, and at the end of the day you're going to be putting down a lot of cash to get maybe 5 - 10bhp extra, even less if you have an auto.
To be honest, you wont see any performance gains from intake and exhaust without doing a tune, and at the end of the day you're going to be putting down a lot of cash to get maybe 5 - 10bhp extra, even less if you have an auto.
JTee2017
Well-known member
Agree with that. Trying higher octane fuel may give a bit more performance. . .
This out of the Holden Barina Owners manual bottom of page under "Fuel" states the 1.6L (1.8L sibling).
Premium Fuel Performance Improvement
"
Fuel type
Use unleaded petrol of regular
91 Research Octane Number (RON)
rating or higher.
Use of Premium unleaded petrol
(95 RON or higher) may provide a
small improvement in performance
and fuel economy.
Bl4d3
Member
Here in South Africa, we only get 95 Octane. 1 standard of fuel, nothing else to choose from. 1 price for fuel in land and 1 price along the coast (due to cost of freight to get fuel inland).
I guess I'm getting peak performance my little 1.6 will ever put out.
