XU5 bottum Block Diffence

[P2trick 0 1 Cars]

Hi 

At the moment I'm starting to Rebuild a 1.6 Gti XU5 B6D engine that I bought as is.
After clean up I discovered a hole in the engine covered in grease, this hole was stuffed whit some sort of putty and was caused by the previous owner (hole is located under need the head bolt near the water pump).

I have a spare xu5 180a engine laying around and I was wondering if I could change the bottom block? and swap the piston liners or that it will be wise so let a specialist repair the original bottom block.

[welshpug 1,621]

An xu9 block will do the trick also, main differences in 8v xu engines is the head and pistons

[P2trick 0 1 Cars]

Thx for the conformation that the bare block is the same

[welshpug 1,621]

If the block is otherwise good I would not bin it, just make the repair good.

[SRDT 146]

At least now you won't easily forget about the spacer on this head bolt.

The older 180A block could lack a few details like some ribs here and there but nothing important.

Most 8v alloy blocks can do the trick except some like the early 171* carb engines or the later XU5JP XU7JP or XU7JB.