The "stock" S16 project

[Jonny81191]

If i remember rightly, it cost me about £55 for my big ends, mains and thrust bearings but that was a fairly good cash price. I think a set of J4RS big ends is about £40 on their own! Im sure you've got some decent contacts through work to get decent prices

That's not bad at all, I'll have a further look.

That engine wouldn't off been used for a while, I think the guy i bought the s16 that the engine come out of had been sat for at least a couple of years and i only drove it about 10 miles. Then took the engine out and it sat in the garage for over a year

Explains the chronic mess in the sump and staining on the internals

What's your plans to reach the 200bhp mark Jonny? Lovely car by the way

The easy way would be to fit a GTi6 inlet mani, and with some work I'm fairly sure I can make the exhaust mani fit as well. Then a lightened and balanced bottom end, possibly flywheel.. That together with a remapped GTi6 ecu and a bit more fuel should clear the 180 mark with apparent ease from what I can find. That's as far as my research has got me!