Engine GA000099, An early GA engine rebuild thread Options

[Superhawk996]

Last week I bought engine GA000099 from Freezing914 in the hopes of picking up some spare parts to support rebuild of the engine that came with my vehicle.

During the teardown of my vehicles engine, it is quickly becoming clear that the engine was abused by some DAPO. Cooling flaps and thermostat had been removed. Rust in the sump. The crank was scored and already 0.010" undersized. The oil pump was torn up. This is just the tip of the iceberg on the engine that came with my vehicle. (IMG:style_emoticons/default/chair.gif)

14 hours of driving seems to have netted me an engine that might be worthy of a rebuild. (IMG:style_emoticons/default/piratenanner.gif)

This engine appears to be bone stock. D-jet mostly complete. As an added bonus I discovered upon teardown that none of the cooling tin fasteners have ever been disturbed. No screwdriver marks!

But . . . like any engine of this age and unknown origin, it absolutely needs to be gone though.

[76-914]

I like clean. I've always said that your going to get dirty removing stuff but you don't have to get dirty putting it back. BTW, some of us CA guys grew up in the midwest and remember the humidity. My wife was astounded at how uncomfortable the cold Wx could be when humidity was part of the mix! What's your timetable for this project? (IMG:style_emoticons/default/beerchug.gif)

[Superhawk996]

What's your timetable for this project?

Lot's of iron's in the fire so hard to say for sure, I'd like to have at least one engine put together by September.

Right now I'm mostly burning time between Melanoma biopsy's and surgeries. Can't really get on my back and do a lot of overhead welding and grinding on the Chassis so I'm doing "easy" work.

Rods are being rebuilt as we speak by my local machine shop. Crank is in good shape. P&C's are likely reusable from what I've seen so far with just a new set of rings and a cylinder hone.

I have a set of new Chinese AAP heads being built by Len Hoffman so I know I have at least one good set of 2.0L 3 stud heads (IMG:style_emoticons/default/biggrin.gif)

At this point it depends on this set of heads as to whether I rebuild both this engine and my original. If I can come up with a second set of heads I'll build both. When done, one, would go up for sale to offset future purchase of a six cylinder long term project.


If these heads aren't good, the excess spares (case, crank, P&C's, etc.) will likely get sold off as parts.