MC1 or MC2???? HELP!!!

[Phil Payne]

> This confirms what I thought about it! Now would it be possible that the
> block wouldn't have 100k miles as the guy told me??? Like less or a lot
> less???

I've seen a few of these blocks, but never one for a hydraulic-lifter engine.

(It has nothing to do with the lifters - that's just a way of including and excluding two sets of engine.)

I've seen three (I think) in WRs.  Only one of those cars had the paperwork covering the engine, and it was a swap by a main dealer
with a line item for 'Short Block from Factory, number 15500'.  That block was significantly different from normal WR blocks, but it
was put in (if memory serves) in about 1991.  The last WRs were installed in midsummer 1987, so it's reasonable that an original
wouldn't be available.  The theory we developed at the time was that this was an industrial engine block - there were borings into
the oilways on the right of the engine, which I thought might have been for pre-oilers - generator engines are often expected to run
at full output from stone cold.  Industrial solid-lifter engines are apparently still available.

WRs seem to have experienced more block damage than other engines.  Cars that are regularly left for long periods (more than six
months) see to fare VERY badly.

So I'd like to see a photograph of this engine.  If you can send a digital snap and you don't have a web site, I'll put it up so
that fellow listers can have a look.

In th ecase of the documented WR, we could find the original number from the registration, which hadn't been updated