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FWIW
If we compare against the stock redline of 6500rpm on the B48 2.0L, the equivalent RPM on the B48 1.6L is 7500rpm
Given a lot of tunes bump the 2.0L redline to 7000rpm, the equivalent on the 1.6L is ~8000rpm
so with only ~15% increase in top revs, it will be hard to make up for the 25% deficit in displacement compared to the 2.0L
still, you're gonna get a very respectable specific output
I imagine most offshore/remote tuners will not be able to extract anything close to this performance though since the extra time/effort in developing even a base tune is going to be excessive compared to the limited market (or perhaps i'm wrong ... are there loads of 1.6L B48s putting around europe ?)
I actually calculated the peak forces on the rod
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