Weren't you puzzled why the crank pulley had only 4 bolts? All C20XE's have 6 bolts on the crank pulley and 8 bolts on the flywheel. As well as the pistons that the engine came with - those are 100% not XE pistons, they look a lot like C20NE pistons with their domes. It almost looked like as if someone fitted a red top head on a C20NE bottom end, basically the same engine block, but minor differences like the pistons and crank.
That's really interesting information, to be honest this is the only xe I have dealt with. but it's really good info on the fact that it just looked all different to what we already had. Frankenstein together haha
@@vehicletechmobile Yeah, I was just wondering if it was advertised as an original XE when it was sold to you, because if it wasn't keep an eye out for other small details that might be different from the original C20XE.
Weren't you puzzled why the crank pulley had only 4 bolts? All C20XE's have 6 bolts on the crank pulley and 8 bolts on the flywheel. As well as the pistons that the engine came with - those are 100% not XE pistons, they look a lot like C20NE pistons with their domes. It almost looked like as if someone fitted a red top head on a C20NE bottom end, basically the same engine block, but minor differences like the pistons and crank.
That’s an 8v bottom end. Hence the crank pulley, pistons and lack or oil restrictor in the oil feed to the head.
That's really interesting information, to be honest this is the only xe I have dealt with. but it's really good info on the fact that it just looked all different to what we already had. Frankenstein together haha
@@vehicletechmobile Yeah, I was just wondering if it was advertised as an original XE when it was sold to you, because if it wasn't keep an eye out for other small details that might be different from the original C20XE.
how much was to sleve the block in uk?
Good effort! Hopefully Nick controls his right foot on this one……..
We can only hope 👀🤣
We already know this comment didn't age well 😜🤣🤣🤣
That's a 2.0 8v bottom end. Even the pistons are 8v
I didn't know that you could use 8v pistons with c20ne head