Originally Posted by
cossynut2
So you wont be needing the head gasket and rocker gasket I sent you unless they will be of use if you get the 2.3 engine from the Merkur XR4I? If I was you I would go for the engine which will be the easiest straight swap as the others will need quite a lot of modification and could end up a lot of hassle. The older Fords had lots of parts from different models which can be interchanged.Keep it as simple as you can and you should be ok.
Yeah on a second thought I've decided against fixing it. The cost benefit analysis is not great for it. In stock form it is an improvement. So I opted against it. I'll be sending the gaskets to my friend who has 2.0i Scorpio in fact he is probably the only one in the country (he is across the country on the East Coast and me on the West Coast) besides with this engine. He also has two others as cores.
I would tough it out with this engine but there you can only do so much power wise with it at least compared to the 2.3 turbo. It has forged internals stock and is big nasty engine but it can handle plenty of boost.
It's not shocking to see them go 300 horses at all. It will certainly go farther torque wise than what my mt75 will probably cope with.