Sound's like a v4 to me

It depends on budget and how much work you can do yourself (to keep costs down)

As I've seen quotes for £1,300 from some garages just to do head gaskets .

You could buy the parts and pay for the machine work needed to fully rebuild yours for about the same cost , just depends on your skill set and timescale .

as with all second hand engine's you have to take the seller's word for it's condition .

Unless buying from someone trusted or hearing it running .

Tuff choice and best of luck bud

On a low budget sadly :(

as for how much work, aside from machining (skimming, etc) I can it all......


but as I said, my budget is very low....as in ideally sub £500 :/

I use importcarparts for all my gaskets ect..

I suppose a standard full gasket set , bottom end shells and head bolts and cambelt kit wouldn't give you much change from £ 1k . As I personally wouldn't reuse any of the above if splitting the block .

Headsets will be a bit cheaper and some people do reuse the head bolts but if the cambelt rollers and tensioner are original I'd add a full cambelt kit into the equations .

thats definitely higher than my budget at the moment :(