[Vwdiesel] B. R. --What would you do?

[Dave Cook]

Once again, link to pics:
<http://www.facebook.com/album.php?aid=361754&id=583537597&l=035aba2bd5>

A couple folks think the engine could be salvaged if I knocked the chunk off the crank and made sure no burrs hit the rod/cap and if I smoothed out the gouges and crack in the cylinder.  (Assuming those don't go higher than the bottom edge of the oil scraper ring.)  

So, I could take the unknown block and fix it up and stick it in there, or I could take a rod, piston, etc and smooth things out and put the current one together.

What would you do?

Anyone know how low that bottom, oil scraper goes so I can measure if it is an option?

Dave Cook