High mileage 5k/200t 10v question

[JShadzi at aol.com]

Quite standard in the Audi 5 cylinder IME.
Javad

> 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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