Motor swap in a 1.8 16v

[MK1Scirocco16v at comcast.net (Dave Ewing)]

If your gonna to rings you may as well to rod and main bearings.  For a few
more bucks you add the engine gasket set and you have yourself an overhaul!!
I wouldn't do rings without doing bearings, just my opinion though!

Dave
----- Original Message ----- 
From: <derrickmd18@juno.com>
To: <rocco16v@netzero.net>
Cc: <flaatr@yahoo.com>; <scirocco-l@scirocco.org>
Sent: Friday, July 25, 2003 5:28 PM
Subject: Re: Motor swap in a 1.8 16v


> Well I resided to replace the rings in my spare motor and just swap it.
> On Fri, 25 Jul 2003 16:58:39 -0700 "L F" <rocco16v@netzero.net> writes:
> > Sounds like a realistic time-line to me.
> >
> > Larry
> > sandiego16v
> >   ----- Original Message ----- 
> >   From: Euroroc II
> >   To: derrickmd18@juno.com ; rocco16v@netzero.net
> >   Cc: scirocco-l@scirocco.org
> >   Sent: Thursday, July 24, 2003 8:04 PM
> >   Subject: Re: Motor swap in a 1.8 16v
> >
> >
> >   I am planning on a 4 day swap to pull the 1.8 and drop a 2.0. No
> > changes to
> >   the electrical at this point just motor exchange and clean up...
> > might seem
> >   long but I'm a stickler for detail.
> >
> >   Details soon... Planning on a late august transplant.
> >
> >   -Raffi
> >
> >
> >   At 07:15 PM 7/24/2003 -0700, derrickmd18@juno.com wrote:
> >   >I was asking because I used to work at a Toyota dealership and I
> > seen
> >   >technicians have a motor down to the bare block inside the car
> > took all
> >   >the parts out and put them in a Cleaner tank, cleaned them and
> > re
> >   >assembled the motor in the same day.  and only one tech is
> > working on the
> >   >car.  But now that I think about it I only did one motor swap and
> > it took
> >   >me a week to do because I ran into problems with it.  I left a
> > ground
> >   >strap un bolts and did see it and I got a harness wire stuck
> > between the
> >   >engine and trans.  took me a week to see it and by that time the
> > harness
> >   >was destroyed to the point where I had to get it towed to a vw
> > dealership
> >   >and have it repaired.  now that I have access to a lift and being
> > where
> >   >as though my car is currently off the road I would think about a
> > swap.
> >   >
> >   >On Thu, 24 Jul 2003 17:57:06 -0700 "L F" <rocco16v@netzero.net>
> > writes:
> >   >Think about it, der.   Rebuilding an engine will take X amount of
> > time,
> >   >whether that engine came out of your car or is already out of
> > someone
> >   >else's car.
> >   >  Of course, your car will be engine-less for fewer days if you
> > rebuild a
> >   >spare engine while you continue to drive the car.
> >   >You can get the lift-work done in fewer consecutive days if you
> > have a
> >   >rebuilt ready to go in as soon as the old one is pulled, that's
> > easy to
> >   >figure out.
> >   >So....what was your question again?
> >   >Larry
> >   >----- Original Message -----
> >   >From: der flo
> >   >To: scirocco-l@scirocco.org
> >   >Sent: Wednesday, July 23, 2003 8:20 PM
> >   >Subject: Motor swap in a 1.8 16v
> >   >
> >   >
> >   >I have a 87 vw scirocco 16v and I need to either swap the motor
> > with a
> >   >rebuild one or rebuild mine in the car.  Which one would be the
> > less time
> >   >consuming idea.  I have a spare motor in my garage on a engine
> > stand with
> >   >a rebuild kit sitting in my garage.  And I have a place with a
> > lift and
> >   >tools for 3 days.  I recently had a fuel problem with CIS-E and
> > now my
> >   >compression went from 150 to 110 so I need to rebuild the motor
> > or swap
> >   >it.  Please hit me back on this.
> >   >
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