had a bit of a disagreement with a used car dealer yesterday, basiclly i was talking about cougars, how i quite liked em, and he was saying theyre shit old boats. i mentioned that the v6 could easily be taken to over 200bhp with the st200 parts (cams, exhuasts, inlet, ecu) and then he went on about them being totally different engines. i argued the blocks and heads were the same from the 167bhp lumps, to the st200 200bhp lumps. he said otherwise, sayign that the internals were all different.

he also reconed theyre fragile and hes always replacing engines in st200s

can someone confirm whether the st200 lump is essentially the same bare engine with different auxilaries?