well, probably three years ago i cracked the head on my jetta, i thought it was just a hg so i went ahead and got it painted before fixing the engine. that turned into a fiasco the guy had it for a year and a half or 2 years, did a half assed job, destroyed some stuff and lost some stuff. but i was younger and had no nuts so i got shat on, it happens. anyways i got the car back from him, put a new wiring harness in and a brand new fuse panel. I got into my new garage in june 09 and pulled the head so i could stick a hg on, and there was a big crack in the head at cyl 3 going from the prechamber to the valve, it was quite disappointing.
after that i didn't really do anything with it, only cause i had alot of stuff changing for me, i got a gf and moved out and all my car time went to my dd rabbit and gfs pos mini. then her minis trans died and cost 9k to fix at the dealer, so its still sitting today. no one rebuilds the mini cvt trans and a refurb is 4-6 grand itself, her warranty was up so shes stuck making payments, and paying full insurance until we can get it traded it or something. so i bought her a 90 cabby and then that started taking up some of my time.
My brother bought a house with a 4 car garage and my jettas up there now. i am in the middle of buying a house(i settle the 18th) and i really wanna drive my jetta this summer and take it to atleast one car show. Its a busy time for me but i'm tired of having a car i can't drive and just doing nothing with it.
So far i measured the bores, i forget the numbers but they're with in spec, and actually this engine is already bored .020 over. i checked the ring gap in cylinder 3 and it was .030. so now i am in need of atleast a rering (bearings and everything else look great) but i have another block i bought of tyler a long time ago, and also a 1.9 head to go with it. this block also has good bores and i want to go over it and do a total rebuild and repaint it. but i dunno if i should just put my old engine back together or build the totally new one, or just take my new engine and head to a machine shop and have them put it all together for me. if i do my new engine i'll get the aaz ported and do upgraded hardware through out.
i started cleaning the new engine up, pretending to know what i am doing haha.