whitesnake
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I have a Carlo Sainz 3SGTE and it has low compression in all four cylinders and I am plaining on pulling the engine for a rebuild.
To start, I have bin searching and have found bits of information on Group A engines and blocks. I have seen the post on the difference between Group A Celica and normal ones, such as the timing belt cooler, and the WTA IC, etc.
I never realized any of the problems the might come up with rebuilding until this post,
http://www.alltrac.net/phpBB2/viewtopic.php?t=22925
I am still a little confused. Is the boar still the same as a normal 2GEN 3SGTE block? Is the stroke the same and just the block is shorter? Would i be better off getting another engine from say a place like http://www.tigerjapanese.com/?
Does this mean that stroking the motor is not an option? What do i have to do for pistons?
Also another thing that has bugged me, can someone explain to me what a short block and a long block is? I have come across talk about it on this site and MR2 OC.
Thanks guy.
To start, I have bin searching and have found bits of information on Group A engines and blocks. I have seen the post on the difference between Group A Celica and normal ones, such as the timing belt cooler, and the WTA IC, etc.
I never realized any of the problems the might come up with rebuilding until this post,
http://www.alltrac.net/phpBB2/viewtopic.php?t=22925
I am still a little confused. Is the boar still the same as a normal 2GEN 3SGTE block? Is the stroke the same and just the block is shorter? Would i be better off getting another engine from say a place like http://www.tigerjapanese.com/?
Does this mean that stroking the motor is not an option? What do i have to do for pistons?
Also another thing that has bugged me, can someone explain to me what a short block and a long block is? I have come across talk about it on this site and MR2 OC.
Thanks guy.