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    2 take out my 1litre n put this 1.4sr engine in?

    mechanic is tellin me 3- 4 days now!


    anyone local wanad o it 4 me? cash waitin

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    a full day maybe 2 :wink:

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    depends how much u know about engines.

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    how longs a piece of string??

    a mate and me put a c16xe in a 1l in 4-5hours but we are boith qualified mechanics...if you have the right mounts/looms etc no problems should occur...pretty styraight forward

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    i'd say 2 days, but thats with lots of fag breaks, having a lie in in the morning an if a lot of things go wrong

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    rush job took 4 of us 4 and 1/2 hours to have a 1.2i engine out and a 1.4sr in. had it running ... sort of

    it can be done in a day easy. depends how desperate you are

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    took me and 4 mates an evning to get 2litre out n turbo back in and bolted up

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    i did a 1.0 - 1.4 swap in a day on my own... in the winter outside... with breaks and stuff ::

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    i wish u could do mine ste!

    ive been wihtout my car since tuesday n its killin me

    mechanics startin 2 work on it on tuesday sed it mite take him 4 days!!!

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    i need mine back its killing me as well, 4 days they must be really fat

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