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Does anyone have any recommendation for an engine rebore around south essex / London?

Thanks Max, do I need new thrust bearings and to set them correctly or can I put my ones back in? It sounds like it is important what side they go in, so perhaps I've screwed up a little taking them straight out. And don't worry, I will take the block to a machine shop for measurement and at...

Exactly what I wanted to hear. I will bin mine and be done with it.

Do the 172 cups have a steering angle sensor? I have a ph1 track project and I think I have broken the steering angle sensor. I don't have ABS or traction control so I am questioning if I really even car if the sensor doesn't work and just rip it out. I wanted to check if this sensor is used...

Spent some time getting the engine stripped yesterday evening to some interesting results. Really hoping there are some guides for reassembly... A lot of these pictures are mainly to help me remember where stuff goes and what way around it goes. These little thing intrigued me a little. If...

Thanks, Once the machine shop has a look i will decide. I'm not necessarily committed to keeping this block, but anything I can find online will need most of the same work anyway (hone and a face minimum) so may as well stick with this block until I know its a dead end.

Not sure if its a good thing or a bad thing being able to pull one of these engines in about 2 hours. Either way, it out now and I got the car back to a state of rolling, need to get some CV ends to protect the wheel bearings. Still had a lot of light left so whipped the head off to have a...

That would just end up wasting all of the mods ive done on the engine already though. If i had room I'd consider getting that as a second engine while I fix my one and just swap them back later... If i had the space.

Appreciate it, but I feel like i might as well stick with my own block unless i find one fresh out the car with confirmed compression...

womp womp! Back from my various travels and did a great job at forgetting all about the car! but im back now and the weather is looking up so I've started stripping the engine down. Hoping next week to pull the engine and start stripping the block down to go off to a machine shop. I have been...

I agree, it could be done as cheaply as possible, and don't get me wrong I am not completely decided on which path to take. However in my head it will be very disheartening to spend the time pulling the engine to change the block and getting a new one honed and some new rings only to be exactly...

That phrase will be the end of me! Ooo plot twist, the question then will be is the power gain worth the difference in price...

So my engine failed a compression test and I'm 99% sure it's the piston rings and a scabby cylinder that is the cause. Full story here: https://cliosport.net/threads/ph1-revival.847226/ Trying to turn failure into a silver lining im leaning more towards a rebore and oversized pistons (I also...

So had a little think about this, I'm away for a while so will potentially revise as time goes on but, as I see it, there are a few options: Hone the current block with a home honing kit and upgrade to 197 pistons and new rings - I know this is probably a dead end, but since I'm going to pull...

Im going to say likely a piece of debris. later picture of the same cylinder shows it not there. Annoyingly i didnt take any better pictures than that.