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"Short" Engines

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Yoshi:
Well swmbo has said that when we have some money i can have a full one :D yaaaaaaaaaaay lol

Range Rover Blues:
A BL gold series unit would, in their cars at least, have all new moving parts, a silver seal would have had mostly new parts and all parts inspected.

It's true that on LR engines you don't get as many parts as I would have expected on, say my old Escort.  A "short" engine for a crossflow was everything below the head, back when I used to mess with things like that.

V8MoneyPit:

--- Quote from: Range Rover Blues on November 04, 2009, 19:27:50 ---A BL gold series unit would, in their cars at least, have all new moving parts, a silver seal would have had mostly new parts and all parts inspected.
--- End quote ---

That used to be my impression too. Except it wasn't true. I was always told that you got new crank, rods, etc. But the first time I found this wasn't true was with an MG Midget Gold Seal unit way back. It had -0.020" crank journals! Mind you, it did come with the stronger Innocenti rods which was a bonus.

Subsequently, I came across other cases of reground cranks in Gold Seal units.

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