Swap for 2.0 bus motor?, Swap questions Options

[Mikey914]

(IMG:http://www.914world.com/bbs2/html/emoticons/welder.gif) Well I've started another project. It's a 1975 1.8 that had an engine fire. It got so hot that the cooling shroud actually melted. Top end F/I is baked, and EEC appears to be in good condition, but I'm thinking baked also. My plan was to dissasemble and take to a machine shop to rebuild. All sheet metal is good, I'm sand blasting and shooting with etch primer now to repaint.

My question is this; will a 2.0 bus motor bolt in in place of the 1.8? I'm thinking I may need to do some work on the exhaust side, but other than that what should I expect?

Any thoughts?

P.S. I plan to go to carbs.

[seanery]

I have a motor that started as a bus block, engine was rebuilt about 20k miles ago using original p/n cam and 2.0 Euro P/Cs, 2.0 914 heads & dual 40 Webers...the owner couldn't get it to pass CA smog at all, they did all sorts of crap to it and just couldn't figure it out. When I got it we started playing with it, but I couldn't do any better, Bradholio drove to LA and picked me and and the car up. While at his shop we went through the rebuild paperwork and he noticed the cam's p/n looked wrong for a 914...well it was a damn single carb bus cam...replaced it with a Webcam designed for dual carbs and voila...heaven.


If you want to use the bus motor...you can do it, but you'll need to change out stuff like pistons, cam, heads, etc...so, the price of a real 914 motor may make more sense, especially if you can find a deal on a 1.7 motor and build a nice 2165 or 2270 out of it.