Question " Also in retrospect, what would you have done differently or any potential hangups you spotted? Thanks for the information."
Different. Hmmm.. Have more money and sent the whole car to Rogers Opel engineering, had him build it, restore the car and call me when it was ready to drive home..lol
Seriously I would of put in a roll cage when I had the car apart for one
I should of first gotten every one of Mr. Legree's posts on this engine off this web sight, Opel tuners.com and the yahoo classic Opel’s group hard copy, plus the ones Travis made on the heads and the distributor and TGSI racing engine 101.. I mean read everything... the questions, the answers everything. Make several HARD COPIES Most everything you can think of is there but have copies to give away.
Realize you will have to replace almost everything. So get all the parts together before you go to the machine shop. That way you won’t think you are all done and have the machine shop say “what about the tensioners?” Because then you will wait to weeks just to have them go “now about that timing chain cover”... my engine went into the shop in Aug of last year and came out in June of this year... and it wasn't a money thing… it was just getting everything together.
Have the shop strip the engine done and go over every little part and make a list of what is needed. If you get stuck call OGTS they will get you the part.
It will take me some time but I will put all the notes I kept together to augment what the racers and experts said to do. Sort of a Rally Bob for Idiots if others don’t have objections. any idea that is or was mine i will mark so people can take it with a grain of salt and be properly dubious. All my notes are lifted from the Opel web sights and are by no means my own
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