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["Bradley Peet" <btpeet@effervescent.com>]

<x-charset iso-8859-1>The bore on a factory 2.0 liter is NOT the same as a 1.8 liter.  The 2 liter
82.5 mm bore.  The 1.8 liter is 81 mm bore.  It is true that most of the
increase in displacement is due to the longer stroke (92.8 vs 86.4), though.

That said, I would use the 2 liter head gasket.

Bradley
'86 Scirocco 16V 2.0 "T"
http://dns.effervescent.com/vw/

>Date: Sat, 13 Nov 1999 16:38:48 -0800
>From: "Dave and Carol Ewing" <dcewing@prodigy.net>
>Subject: Head Gasket
>
>I am building a 2.0L block with a 1.8L head.  I got the 1.8L headset and
>heard on the list that I needed to use the 2.0L head gasket.  Why?  I have
>heard that the bore is the same as the 2.0L and that the stroke was
changed.
>I matched the 1.8L head to the 2.0L block and everything seemed to match up
>fine.  Please let me know on this since I may be doing this swap soon!!
>
>Dave


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