Nice job! Likewise, I'm intending to transfer all the rolling-stock from the 1600, having spent many hours lovingly de-rusting it and painting it all bright red.
While fiddling with the exhaust today, with the back wheel off I noticed the rear spring has also come somehwat adrift, maybe broken. It's difficult to tell, everything is caked in that rippled grey powdery "soil" that covers the underneath of neglected cars. The wheelarches are full of the stuff! So I'm hoping the MOT guy won't notice, which will buy me a little more time. Butif it does, I'll just have to get onto it.
I would've thought a two litre block is a two litre block, I can't imagine any reason they'd not be the same. But it's a lot of work to go to and find out the smoke was caused by something else all along. Bit of a tough decision that one, I'd be wrestling with that for days I think!
You're gonna miss that "pt-suew" of the turbo though. :-)
P.S. I'm dead jealous - you've got roof bars and I haven't!
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