mind you i bought myself a second hand head for £30

A decent new engine would cost me £400? Well thats what this one did.

The whole head swap will cost me a touch over £400 inc. my friends labour with a recon head and all headset so when you factor in the extra labour for actually swapping the engine, all the fluids etc. etc and the fact we're working in the dark for a couple hours it would take forever, cost me a lot more (My last one I racked up about 1k with a clutch etc.) and just swapping the head will be cheaper.

I haven't factored out the fact that i'd like the pistons to be checked over and changed but he said if it was in the workshop at work they would put a new head on it and if it was his car he'd just put a new head on it. I know it's kind of a shortcut i'll regret in the future maybe but i'll check it all moves freely and if it does it should be ok.

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zs's eh?

Any garage would just slap a new head on it, the pistons are strong enough to take the damage, unless you can see any visual damage then they should be ok.

While you check that they all move freely, check they all go to the same height (obviously), and check for piston slap too.

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DONT use those pistons !! they will have been weakened and any extra load from the timing being out or anything like that will fuck all kinds of shit up. just change the whole engine and fit it yourself to save labour costs. you will regret it. ALSO the compression will be out due to the marks on the pistons. i have a mahle piston with a 2mm wide dent no deeper than a thickness of card (business card) and have been told its fucked. just a word of advise .. save yourself more hassle and do the lot

danny look at the pics each piston has a grove where the valves have all hit them, 4 on each piston crown,

£400 for a fucking engine, jesus get rid of it in light of a Si mate, fucking rip off, theyre shit engines too, only last about 80k!!!!


if a new engine is going to cost you near enough a grand fuck it go for that duratec...


or like sam said do it yourself, its not that hard, get started at 9am be done by 5 the next day, and thats without a crane

£100 gets your a 90k 2.0 silvertop zetec thats been driven by a old woman to the shops and to her daughters house every few days in a mondeo, which will last till around 160k if looked after

im really shocked at all this

Get rid of something worth nothing atm. that I've spent k's on. For a cheap battered falling apart si and then spend ££££££s getting it going and continuing to do so.

How is an si going to be better lol

All cars are the same. I'm not really spending that much when you think what im getting and 100 is labour to my mate.

I don't care tbh

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MK5 FTW over an Si all day long.

Just fix it, drive it, fuck it.

Get a project engine on the go on the side to dump in it at a later date!

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Oh are they marks on the pistons not little cut outs for the valves like a lot of pistons have? Doesn't help looking on my phone I guess. Well if they are dents in the pistons from the valves then yeah they are slightly fucked

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Get some high comp pistons and slap them in for some NA love

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There just marks from where they hit really hasnt dented them or anything there just marked.

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LOL dan, fucked is the word of the day



Si would be so much cheaper mate, like i said £100 for a silvertop = done

everything is cheaper on them thinking about it, and theyre much better looking imo

Could fit a zetec in the zs if he really wanted.

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been there done that dont bother lol, if you were just use the blacktop

but then it wont be £100 per engine so kinda agaisnt the point

Can pick up blacktops for the same money tbh

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Either way it won't cost £100. Thats a very niave way of thinking.

£100 for the engine yes, what about the loss on the ZS? What about the fact I want to keep the ZS? What about the fact the Si will have rust? That'll need welding up each year? If you really look at the bigger picture. It won't save me any money.

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I was saying zetec the zs lol its an option.

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yeah was talking to Jony

I will zetec it but only when theres a turbo on it

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