High mileage 5k/200t 10v question

[james accordino]

Mine still had all the original crosshatching on the
cylinders and only very slight wear/polishing of the
piston side skirts perpendicular to the piston pins.
No "ridge" on top of cylinder either.  I remember
posting if this is normal or if someone rebuilt my
engine.  This is definitely not my normal experience
with either American or Japanese engines.  They
usually show much more wear.

Jim Accordino

--- Mihnea Cotet <mik at info.fundp.ac.be> wrote:
> Listers,
>
> I've found a cheap engine for my turbo project (I
> already have an MC-1
> bottom-end but I'd like to have more compression so
> this is why I've looked
> for another alternative), this is a 1B engine
> (similar to the MB engine
> from the late 10v urq's, it has 8.6:1 CR) and it has
> a little less than
> 200k miles.
> I'd like to ask the ones that have already stripped
> such a high-mileage
> 10vt engine what state I should expect the pistons
> to be in....the engine
> is said to loose/use no oil at all and supposedly
> runs well....the owner
> bought the car for parts and is willing to let me
> have everything I want
> from the car (complete engine, harness, sensors,
> etc...) for a timing
> belt/water pump swap on his '89 200tq (it's an
> european car and it's a 10v
> model)...
> Any BTDTs on high-mileage engines? Do the pistons
> wear in 200k miles or
> only the bores/rings? Can they be worn out if the
> engine uses no oil at all?
>
> Thanks in advance,
>
>
> Regards from Belgium,
>
>
> Mihnea
>


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