Im half expecting novas to be slightly lighter but i havent the figures, but it was bloody good fun, and cheap too
My si was £500, ECU £40, 280mm Brakes and 2.0 engine £195 ,RS1800 manifold £20
probs about £750 for a 2.0 Si
Sorry forgot youre key points
Reliable?
Very if treated correctly, oil changed often with filter, keep an eye on youre levels, try and keep em cool!
My Fiesta si spent 4 hours thrashing round brands hatch, 4 hours, and we had 0 faults, nothing, we took tons of bits in case but not a thing, we couldnt believe it, but treat it right and youll get the rewards
Fast?
Relatively, they take longer to rev thatn the modern Duratecs like in the ST because of a heavier flywheel, something that can be sorted for a hundred pound or so if you wanted, my 2.0 Si and indeed terry's (onslack) were both 126bhpish and they could keep up/ infront of my ST (154bhp)
Not sure about a redtop corsa though, in a straight line both standard my money would be on the redtop, but round the bends not sure
Petrol?
My car when converted from 1.6 to 2.0 when driving normally got near as makes no difference the same mpg, simply because the 2.0 moves the fiesta with less effort where as you have to thrash the 1.6 to make it shift, so i did about the same fuel about 300 miles to a tank if nice
Tuneable?
Ah, well not as easy as a redtop or modern duratec inmo, but theres potential but if you want HUGE gains look for forced induction, N/A route youre gonna be restricted to a max of 200bhp with lots of £££
I would say you can get 150bhp fiscally out of a 2.0 conversion, youd want to find a nice healthy engine, rebuild and port at the same time and get stuff done ready for rebuild, if you know a few people it shouldnt break the bank to bad
You can tell i have nothing to do by typing all this out eh? 
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. would they keep up with the RS2000 ?
he wasn't best pleased either 
) so cant comment on that one
which is about 140ish i think
