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After purchasing my first clio sport and been told it had a noisy dephaser pulley i begain to strip the engine, Found that the cams where very badly pitted and worn:- I have now purchased a 2nd hand engine and stripped it down to check condition of the cams, All is good and was removed for...

i will do once ive paid for membership

yeah, back to finding a good second hand engine.

They is loads of F4R engines on ebay but its picking a good one, I have a new dephaser pulley, Cambelt kit and aux kit to fit to my new engine plus going to fit a new clutch as well

dam, thought it was too good to be true. I either need a good head or a new engine.

dam, so no good then :(

After taking the head off my 172 and seeing that the cams are pitted and cam carriers are damaged i have decided to change the engine. I have been offered a laguna 2.0 16v engine from a 2002 for £100 with only 62k on the clock and can be heard running. I am right that the block and head are...

Right, new update, fook it i am getting a new engine. This engine had been messed around with. Just took inlet off and the ports have been grinded out. Someone said that a 2.0 luguna engine is the same. Is this correct that the lump and head are the same as this one has only done 60k and £100

I can reuse the new parts, cambelt kit ect. if it knocks it head off then yeah, i will get a new engine for it. but if it doesnt i will get as much use out of it as i can. it was a cheap car and not willing to spend £175 for a recon head as the bottom end with that miles will just go, pointless...

Ive been there before with another car, new head and then the bottom end went. It was running fine before so going to just stick it back together. putting a new head on might cause bigger problems. i might as well just but a second hand engine in

Even though it may appear to be pitted the cams, it was running spot on apart from the dephaser. It going all back together and see how it goes, if it fooks up then i will just buy a new engine, it was a project car and cost me £200 for the car a week ago with 8 months mot on it

Its got to go on, thats the only reason i am doing all of is is because the dephaser was noisy. Unless i find another cylinder head i have no choise but to rebuild it as it stands as i have to get the car running as i am moving house soon

But then i am best to get it skimmed and pressure tested, new head gasket and once that done wont be long till the bottom end goes, been there done that, might as well throw it back together and run it, then buy a second hand low mileage engine and stick that in it when its blows.

I undone the crank pulley nut before i stripped the car down. Because i wanted to double check that the crank was locked in the correct place. Its going back together as it is, and when it does decide to blow up i will just replace it with a low mileage engine. Not messing around with another...

115k, its been messed around with, i am just going to put it back together unless i find a head for around £100