Slightly strange first question but I'm info gathering and here seems like probably the best place to help me out. I'm looking to find the actual weight of the V6 engine (and manual box), fully dressed with manifolds, alternator etc or alone. Seems like a pretty good engine for transplant but one source claims 110kg, whereas another claims 223kg. That's quite a difference 110kg puts it into the realms of an all alu I4 engine, 223 puts it into the realms of a cast iron turbocharged I4.
Any help appreciated but if I'd appreciate it if people could be pretty sure about their source/values otherwise it's a bit of a waste of everyones time. If anyone is likely to have weighed an ES9 engine, one of you lot will have
Actually we're not the people to ask, the vast majority of the bods on this site are trying to keep our heaps going on a shoestring. If there's anywhere that can help you it'll be those crazy people over on the coupe club (www.peugeot406coupe.com). They even have a resident breaker who could probably go out and weigh one if you asked him nicely enough.
Thanks for the welcome! As for keeping heaps going - I'm well used to that but I'm a firm lover of peugeots and the fact that they're generally nice and cheap and easy to fix unlike most cars Started with a 205, then a 306 and now considering putting the heart of a 406 into a self-designed spaceframe chassis, in an Atom style arrangement. Just trying to identify how it compares, power/weight wise, with a 3S-GTE from toyota and an Audi 4.2 V8! Thanks for the pointer to the other site, I'll skip over there and see if anyone there can answer my questions, but I'll leave the question open here too - you never know
Yeah, it's a tradeoff of weight against stock power, including a hint of potential power. No point in putting a V6 in when I can put an I4 in and get the same power in a smaller volume and lower mass. Hence the investigations
I think the ES9J4 adds about 50KG to the weight of a non-coupé* 406 over most other engines. Some of that will be the extra weight of the bigger exhaust but otherwise the model differences are minimal
* The V6 coupés get brembo callipers and bigger discs, which add more to the weight difference
<steve_earwig> I think this forum is more about keeping our cars going with minimal outlay than giving our cars more reason to go bang
110kg puts it into the realms of an all alu I4 engine, 223 puts it into the realms of a cast iron turbocharged I4.
What are you up to then? 
of peugeots and the fact that they're generally nice and cheap and easy to fix unlike most cars 