Julie's weekend work

[juliemac57 at hotmail.com (Julie Macfarlane)]

The bottom end was built by Chris (deadbolt@mindspring.com) and was powder 
coated both gray and red for the accessories.

The head came from an old 1.8L 16v has been fully rebuilt. Valve guides, 
seals etc.

Altogether with gaskets, bolts and doodads? I spent in the ball park of 
1200$. A lot more than I wanted, but I have a brandy new engine to break in.
Never done that before either  :)

The only parts to swap were the intake and a few support brackets. Those 
were wire wheeled or sand blasted then painted with hi-temp engine paint.

Did I spend too much? Ahhhyup. And now I have an engine worth over twice 
what I paid for the car  :)

Julie Macfarlane
Menlo Park Research & Development
Internet Application Developer
www.menloparkrandd.com
www.montgomeryweb.org
Amsterdam NY





>From: Brian Wagner <brian_wagner@sbcglobal.net>
>To: Julie Macfarlane <juliemac57@hotmail.com>, scirocco-l@scirocco.org
>Subject: Re: Julie's weekend work
>Date: Thu, 16 Oct 2003 07:32:00 -0700 (PDT)
>
>Julie,
>
>That look great, did you use Gyptal (sp) paint on the block. If so good 
>choice, we used that exclusively on our race motors (Gyptal paint for those 
>who don't know is used on electric motors, long life and durable as hell).
>
>What was the total cost of the rebuild and what components where swapped 
>between old and new?
>
>Brian
>
>Julie Macfarlane <juliemac57@hotmail.com> wrote:
>Well if your bored any way. Here are a few pics...
>
>http://www.menloparkrandd.com/scirocco/new_motor/before
>and the install....
>http://www.menloparkrandd.com/scirocco/new_motor/after
>
>No pics of me. After 3 days under the hood I was definately NOT publicly
>presentable, nor was my mood that good. My down stairs neighbour helped me
>get the engine in and out. He managed to whack my bad wrist with a brealer
>bar getting the engine in. Some of the language I used caused some of the
>paint to peel and the oil to run off the floor.
>
>Thank god for military training. With out those cusses? Sheesh...
>
>
>
>Julie Macfarlane
>Menlo Park Research & Development
>Internet Application Developer
>www.menloparkrandd.com
>www.montgomeryweb.org
>Amsterdam NY
>
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