Originally Posted by
MikeR
maybe l should say that l am thinking of building an engine putting it in to a car running it then changing the engine at a later date to a more powerful engine, l dont want to learn on a good/potentially powerful engine for it to go bang, but the main object of the exercise is for me to build the engine
Mike
in that case i would go for a zetec which are commonly available and cheap.
a s2000 wont go bang tho
but if you just want to practice building an engine then i would do what chip said and by a rusty old MOT failure mondeo with a zetec and rebuild the motor