Firstly big thanks to Dangerous Dave who broke me out of my kitchen fitting duties yesterday and got me pulling engines to bits and got my mind thinking. Dave was after a sump pan and I have a 2.0l lump here that was left over from the donor car and after it not selling on ebay after many dangles on there (no surprise really) it seem best to rip the sump off it and send it daves way, so I dragged out the engine got it onto the engine stand when I noticed the sump already had a repair to it and not a very good one as some filler type muck was covering the repair on it didn't look good. At this point dave was already on his way over to collect said good sump, so only on thing for it, take the one off Frankies (niles's) old forged lump, which I've been dying to open up, so this block was swapped onto the stand and the good sump whipped off ready for Dave's arrival. Well this old block has seen some issues over it's time (before Frankie I add) as there's evidence of a bent rod or 2 inside and I don't think I've ever seen so much crud and crap inside and engine as this one
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and the remains of a brush stuck in the oil pick-up pipe ( I've pulled it out abit just to find out what was clogging the pick up gauze)
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So as the pistons have some damage from previous years and there is some nasty ridges at the top of the bores, I'm looking at block alternatives to start this re-build and this is where the 2.0l could be of use (provided that when I pull it apart it's good internally). I do have another 2.3l lump organised as a back-up/spares donor but was just wondering if anyone knew if I can take the 2.0l block (81mm bore) and fit the 2.3l crank and forged rods (90mm stroke) and build it up as a 2.3l,
or is there a major difference/problem that I'm not thinking of ???
