[928uk] 4.5 or 4.7 Block

[Alexander Popov]

Ben,

Richard’s offer sounds very generous and I would be seriously tempted to take him up on it. The alternative to sleeve the block is not cheap - had to have it done on my race car. The Westwood liners alone were about £400 before machining, which can easily run into another £500+ on top. 

By the way, the 4.5 block’s cylinder walls are not that thin - they would easily support having 1mm taken from their radius. 

Last but not least, I have another suggestion - Luxury Car Spares in Battle, Hastings seem to be the pre-eminent 928 braker at the moment. I have dealt with them in the past and found them to be super reasonable. They always have 4.5 and 4.7 engines in stock. Perhaps you can work a deal with them where you buy the engine, you pop it open and if all is good (just normal wear) they get paid in full, and if it is a turd, they don’t. I am sure there are ways around it. As I said earlier, while not a charity I found them to be straight and good to deal with when I was buying transmission parts as well as various trims/suspension parts. 

Hope this helps,

Alex


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> On 4 Sep 2019, at 21:01, Richard via 928uk <928uk at lists.928.org.uk> wrote:
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> Ben. I have a couple of 4.5 blocks and at least one set of pistons. I also have 1 crank but it will need some work for sure.   I destroyed the other in my racecar.
> Best to have a look. Where are you? Im in Wilts.
> One of the engines came out of the manual donor car, so no TBF probs, anyway the earlier engines had circlips to stop shaft migrato in the autos
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> I' m away until next week
> Richard
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