Wanted: 202 in good condition.

[Rothu]

Hi, all!

Well the Bloody Non-Bedford finally decided to totally crap out. Engine is blowing oil out the top and smoking REAL bad!
Reason: A very small piece of metal wedged itself into the top of no. 4 piston and burnt out the edge of it causing massive blowback.
reason: My modified inlet manifold was recut to fit a VK throttle body adaptor plate, and some dastardly piece of metal refused to come out even after high pressure hose and air compressor.

So I'm trying to find out if anyone in Melbourne has or knows of a good 202 going at a good price. Preferably it has been tested for compression and vacuum. Ultimately I'd prefer an Black VK EFI 202 as I have the head for this engine. But I need to get it back on the road asap!

Thanks!

[Rothu]

Thanks guys!

I went to Centre Road Wreckers and checked out a few of the commodores with 6s in them. 6 VKs. 2 were EFI, the rest were EST. A couple of nice clean looking blue engines, but after checking spark plugs/cylinder condition, oil cap (whether the it was given good oil changes, peeking into the rockers, making sure they weren't all crusted with black unchanged oil, we selected an EST which was in grand condition apart from a leaky rocker cover gasket. Removed everything to a long motor.

Got the massive forklift to raise the car to prop it up with welded car rims to unbolt the transmission, used a recipricating saw to cut the exhaust pipe under the passenger seat to remove the inlet and outlet manifolds in one piece, unbolted the torque converter off the flywheel, used a long swivel extension bar rachet to get the bell house bolts off the top, then the forklift came back and using a seat belt for a rigging device on the engine mountings pulled back and up. Then transported to trailer. $130

This will be a massive heart transplant.

[ben]

yeh i remeber driving an old clapped out vk with a non efi black 202 in it. it had done 300 odd thou ad man it still had plenty of go.

130 bucks to motor and box or just motor?

sounds like the go ay. you may get me into looking down that path now lol

ben