Originally posted by splats:
... Will a 8 bolt 2.2 crank fit in the 2.5 block using the 2.5 rods and pistons? The block is an '88. If I remove the counter-balancers (never used in a 2.2) & plugged the oilers for the c/b's, will it work? ...
Not to be a buzz-kill or anything but, since this is an IT site and I'm assuming we are talking about IT cars, your friendly, nieghborhood rules NERD needs to remind the assembled that the up- and back-date rule doesn't allow mix-and-match engine assemblies, or use of parts from cars on other spec lines.

If you do have two engine options among years/models on a spec line - like we do with the Golf - you can use one or the other. I'd LOVE to use the forged crank out of the early OBDI cars with the slightly better head of the later OBDII ones. But I can't.

K