120 miles really isn't very much you know...

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Ph3 China blue GTi-6 330Ci///M Sport & NC23 CBR400RR

You feed beefburgers to swans.

I may have been speeding Mr Policeman but [a] I live for the 306 and [b] did you see that dog? omfg

personally its down to how much you love your car and how long you intend to keep it.

For me a full rebuild is something i would do over an engine transplant.

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Team allesclar ®

120k miles in itself isn't an issue, providing that the engine has been treated well and regularly serviced. Hell, Miles on here has one with twice that mileage and it's still putting out over book power figures!

The problems come when they're neglected, and in my experience the iron block XU engines suffer significant bore wear if oil changes are missed, which throws a bit of a spanner in the works for any planned rebuild - there's little rebuilding into a worn block, and in my experience, many too worn to be rebuilt properly.

You're then either left with getting oversized pistons and reboring the block - which is expensive - or trying to find a good block with minimal wear, which is becoming ever harder.

Also, don't under-estimate the costs of fully rebuilding an engine, as rebuild parts for Peugeot XU's are pretty expensive - even assuming the block is serviceable, you're still talking the best part of a grand in parts and machining costs (and that's assuming you can do the strip and rebuild yourself, as labour costs are significant for engine builds)

Personally, my opinion is that there are still enough good GTi-6 engines that they don't yet warrant the cost of a full rebuild unless you're planning on keeping it a long time or you've got to strip it down to change/uprate the spec. Change the cambelt/tensioners/waterpump as a matter of course on any replacement engine, and I'd look at doing the big-end shells too, and then use it - providing its otherwise good with decent compression etc.

You don't say what's actually wrong with your existing engine other than the mileage? A compression test would certainly be a good starting point for establishing whether the engine needs replacing/rebuilding or not.

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1989 Eunos Roadster // 1992 Peugeot 205 GTi-S 1.9 // 1999 Peugeot 306 HDi Meridian

Brand new block would be ~3000 pounds from Peugeot

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XSi 8V -> S16

if you do the work your self and the crank and bores are ok, a rebuild could work out pretty cheap.

I would say well under a grand.

Stick a low mileage block in and charge it.

You might wana hang on to it then. Happy days

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*jay81.
Phase 2.5/S-99
Team i live for working,Paying bills and funding my hobbies. I wish my life could be just living for a pink "I love the 6 sticker".

how did noone else notice that?

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Bye bye Sundance Kid