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[red6]

engine was pulled out on the weekend and all stripped down tonight in preparation for heading of to the machine shop tomorrow arvo.

pulling the 202 down revealed no real suprises, loads of piston play and broken rings on pistons 3 and 4. fingers crossed for no nasty suprises at the machine shop.

getting all usual work done at the shop plus they are fitting the timing gears, arp rod bolts and balancing the motor.

[red6]

no dramas at the machine shop so far. pistons and rings will be 30 thou over mains and big ends 10 thou under. crank just needed a light polish. using 5 cc dish pistons and he is doing a dummy fit of no1 piston and the crank and the yella terra head to work out the compression ratio and then decking the block to suit. also getting the cam dialed in while no1 piston is dummy assembled.

have already bought the rebuild kit and ballencer ect ect and i should be right to pick up the motor ect on tuesday.

im starting to miss driving it. its been 2 WHOLE weeks

but im sure it will be worth it once its all back together again.

[toryman76]

great thread with some very good information. keep us posted with how it goes at the machine shop. im interested!

Cheers

[red6]

engine is now rebuilt and back in the car. thanks everyone for the informative posts. really helped me feel confident enough to tackle it myself.

couple of pointers for anyone considering doing the same combo as me:

-remember to modify the sump baffles for sufficient clearence from the blue motors counterweights.

-as your using a blue crank you need a blue harmonic balencer.

-be aware of the rope/neoprene rear main seal differences between the variouse blocks and cranks and make sure you get the correct seal.

so far the engine seems spot on but it only has 200km on it so far so im very much still babying it about untill i hit 1000km when ill put the bigger carby on it and do an oil change.

[red6]

my dipstick was snapped in half a few days ago into the sump. it had been hit by the blue crank because of the extra counterweights. admitedly it had been damaged befor and repaired but it is still something to be aware of.

no damage to motor tho and fished it out using a magnet without having to do any work except drop the sump.

now ill run a cut down dipstick to stop oil leaks out the dipstick tube and carry another one in the boot to check the oil level