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Today was a very productive day.
Took the cams outs a few days ago and found this.
Roller bearings were destroyed on the exhaust side.
No wonder I only had compression from one cylinder.
Glad I'm on holidays as I got the radiator out, intake manifold off, aircon out, battery out, cams out and rockers out.
Had some friends come over and and got the motor out.
Didn't take that long. Pretty easy to do with a few hands.
Oh and the use of an engine crane made it a lot better then dropping the subframe.
So we wanted to see the damage to the head.
No surprise here!
Nice progress mate! Was sad to hear of the old A3 expiring, the little motor that could. From my experiences with MR K24A3 DC5s I think you'll like it .
Thanks guys.
Looking back at the A3 build, all things were bolt ons an re-usable.
Motor had 225,000kms on the clock and had provided 110kw atw, saw 2 hillclimbs, 3 trackdays and hours of fun.
I never would of thought 4 years ago that I would have done so much with the car and now be doing an engine swap.
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