I want to build an engine

[Thomas. PLease.]

An itch I've always wanted to scratch. I've worked on cars, swapped engines, done maintenance work, but I've never really fully rebuilt or built up an engine.

I thought there'd easily be a few build your own engine type kits on the internet available but after a google could only find little plastic kits! Does anybody have any ideas on the best way to do this. Buy a car with a borked motor and just get a rebuild kit, or does anybody have any links to any kits?

PS a V8 would be nice

 

[Thomas. PLease.]

I just want to rebuild it for the learning and so I can say I've done it for my own fulfilment really. I think it might be nice to try and eek a little more performance out too, have a go at porting and smoothing the inlet etc. nothing too wild though.

 

[Thomas. PLease.]

What car do you drive now?

Maybe buy a replacement engine for it and strip/rebuild/uprate it then swap it over? Maybe even a bigger capacity engine?

Just tooling around in a 98 punto at the moment. It doesn't excite me in the least so I sort of resent spending much money on it. I've always hankered after a mk2 golf gti, so was maybe thinking of building up a 16v engine. I would image good parts availability on these?

 

[Thomas. PLease.]

You could buy yourself a knackered mk2 gti and a rough mk3 vr6 - the vr will need the chain guides doing by now which involves a reasonable amount of work, you could strip it and rebuild / replace as required then install in the mk2 - cant remember what exactly you need to swap over seem to remember hubs etc but has been done loads of times so there plenty of info.

The vr6 makes a great noise, would be pretty quick in a light car like the mk2 too

I like this idea, vr6's don't seem too pricey either.