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xfi or base ?
Topic Started: Nov 28 2012, 12:18 PM (926 Views)
kilesmetro
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I have no manual. How do you tell what model a car is? Will the vin tell me anything? Is there any other differences other than cam?
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Weswhat
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Should say Metro Xfi on the back of the car... or even on the side.
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idmetro
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I'll start. Xfi typically has:

Black bumpers
No trim below the back windows
Passenger mirror delete
Came from factory with no A/C (lots of examples where it was added by dealer or aftermarket though)
two ring pistons
different cam profile
only available 89-94 (I think)

Others will chime in with what I've missed.
Edited by idmetro, Nov 28 2012, 12:23 PM.
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Does your VIN say "MS" or "MR"?
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Some XFi's had passenger side mirrors. I confirmed this with my cousin who bought a 1991 XFi brand new and it came with a passenger side mirror.

An XFi may have been repainted and the XFi stickers may be gone. The single most reliable means of determining is checking the VIN. XFi has MS as 4th and 5th digits and the base has MR.
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3.79 transmission, different ECM(has this ever been confirmed to help FE?)...
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idmetro
Nov 28 2012, 12:22 PM
I'll start. Xfi typically has:

Black bumpers
No trim below the back windows
Passenger mirror delete
Came from factory with no A/C (lots of examples where it was added by dealer or aftermarket though)
two ring pistons
different cam profile
only available 89-94 (I think)

Others will chime in with what I've missed.
a couplemore off the top of my head would be ,

3.79 transmission ratio

no body side moldings

ecm's are specific also

the ones i have had in the past have stated so, right on the title (xfi ) iirc i know for a fact the last one did
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kilesmetro
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Thanks for all the responses. My car never had air. I will check the vin on way to work this morning.
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Woodie
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If you're talking about the 95 in your info to the left then no, not an XFI. XFI's were only made during GEN2, 89-94.
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