Another Update!
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Originally Posted by Dragon' date='Oct 1 2003, 11:08 PM
4,000 total cosmos 20B cars were built and 1000 extra crate engines were also put together as replacement engines for those cars and that was it...
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Originally Posted by Dragon' date='Oct 2 2003, 03:08 PM
4,000 total cosmos 20B cars were built and 1000 extra crate engines were also put together as replacement engines for those cars and that was it...
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Originally Posted by 3Rotor' date='Oct 6 2003, 10:22 AM
You mean like the one I have 
A great find - "0" run time - never been lit. It is for when the original A Spec motor goes in the Cosmo. This crate engine is a D6xx !
A great find - "0" run time - never been lit. It is for when the original A Spec motor goes in the Cosmo. This crate engine is a D6xx !
Were you one of my Aussie mates I would call you a fuggin barstard.
Seeing as how I don't know you, I will be polite & call you a fuggin barstard
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Essentially of the 5000 engines, they each had a 1000 block series. The first engines, as the one in my Cosmo is an "A" spec motor - among the first 1000. It has simply a three digit "serial" number stamped into the housings/plates. There is no actual letter. The next series was stamped with a "B" and three numbers, next 1000 with a C, next with a D. The original design - the "A" spec motors have been known to have some issue with eccentric shaft flex under certain boost condition (dialed up). Of course, with proper car and maintenance, a 20B can last for in excess of 141,000 km (87,000 miles), because my Cosmo still has the original engine.
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Has a D prefix before the engine number...indicates a VERY late motor!
I believe (feel free to set me straight guys) updates were more in the correcting of issues that surfaced than anything else. I know A prefix engines had oiling issues and flog centre bearings & eccentrics. There may be other issues too, thats the main one as far as I know. This was fixed in B prefix engines. My C 6xx was the latest I had seen until this pic. I missed buying C 2xx in a clip on Friday by a few hours...!!
I believe (feel free to set me straight guys) updates were more in the correcting of issues that surfaced than anything else. I know A prefix engines had oiling issues and flog centre bearings & eccentrics. There may be other issues too, thats the main one as far as I know. This was fixed in B prefix engines. My C 6xx was the latest I had seen until this pic. I missed buying C 2xx in a clip on Friday by a few hours...!!
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Originally Posted by 3Rotor' date='Oct 6 2003, 11:07 AM
Of course, with proper car and maintenance, a 20B can last for in excess of 141,000 km (87,000 miles), because my Cosmo still has the original engine.
Rebuilt it last year, the centre bearing was spread & worn out completely. The E-shaft had visible scoring, but it turned out to be slight enough that it linished clean. So I guess really you could probably say that the B,C & D are more desirable but the early one will still do the job