Re: 16v block and 8v head

[Chris Picot <picot@cpcug.org>]

I thought I heard somewhere that some of the oil galleys on the 16V head do
not match up with the 8V block.  Anyone else heard this?

Chris

At 04:02 PM 3/11/97 -0500, KDBinney@aol.com wrote:
>In a message dated 97-03-10 19:43:47 EST, chtaylo4@vt.edu (Chris Taylor)
>writes:
>
><< Sorry, I don't have any experience w/ headwork, but did you say that your
> friend is looking to put an 8v head on a 16v block?  Is that possible?   >>
>
>I have been told that it lines up perfect.  The only thing is that the
>distributor hole on 16v's is covered by a plate.  All you do is take it off
>and you have all the gearing  still there which makes sense because you have
>to drive the oil pump.  One possible problem would be if a 16v oil pump is
>different (I dont know about that ) than you may have to swap pumps to get
>the slot that drives the distributor.  But hey if youre swapping a motor I
>think you could handle the oil pump too.  Anyone else know anything about
>this?  My information comes from a local tuner, but I think he is more into
>bugs and air cooled than water.  I want to know this for sure because I am
>going to be looking into putting a 2.0 16v block into my 8v RD engine over
>this summer, or maybe the next.
>
>Kyle
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