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Old 07-28-2009, 02:26 PM
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Originally Posted by Fowvay View Post
To be honest the 2.0 is a much older design and very forgiving. My Mother's 1994 2.0 had random and occasional oil changes once going over 50,000 miles on regular oil and it made it to 200,000 miles no problem.

The 1.8T has much smaller clearances and generates a massive amount of internal stress and heat it does not forgive fools. Keep it synthetic and change it often.
I am currently working on a head rebuild for an APH and if I'm lucky I'll actually get the head off this weekend; so I'm curious as to what its internals look like. The oil was charcoal black when I checked it before starting the project; how forgiving do you think it will be?
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