This is a 2000 ITR Block I bought yesterday. I talked to my friend who is a mechanic, and he told me it should be fine, but I thought I would get some opinions on here.

Here are 3 pics.

1st pic, in the center of that rectangle there is a crack that runs left to right. I believe it is from the block being flipped and rolled over. When it was rolled over that tab at the end bent and formed a small crack. My friend looked at it and told me that it is far away enough from the coolant passage that it should be fine.


2nd pic, whoever was removing it stripped all 3 bolt holes and left 1 in there. He told me he could take it out and fix it, but the machine shop or whoever I take the block to should be able to handle it. It looks pretty bad, but if they know what they are doing it should be alright. As long as you got a bolt extractor kit and a few other things.


3rd pic. Here is a closeup of the tab I am talkin about. I drew a line to illustrate where the crack is and what direction it goes.


Let me know what you think. Everything else is fine, such as the sleeves and etc. But I am going to get it resleeved anyways. I took it apart tonight and it looks like it spun a rod bearing #1. So I just bought a Type-R crank to replace it.
Thanks guys!


[Modified by BodyKits NW, 11:43 AM 2/10/2002]


[Modified by BodyKits NW, 5:24 PM 2/10/2002]

 

looks ok to me and yes a machine shop will have no problems repairing the bolt holes

 

Yah, I took it to the machine shop and they said that it could be fixed. So I am going to have that fixed before I send the block down to get resleeved by Golden Eagle.

 

good choice on sleeves as well. Vince is the man.