u/RateCapable3692

Why did you guys not go for the extremely smooth, extremely hard to find to be smooth, 850???

Hi everyone! I'm about to change the head gasket, it was done three years ago, but not done well.

I start with saying that I'm not an mechanic, just been fixing my own cars for the last 20 years, and been an race machanic, drifting and drag racing on European championship level, FIA.

That said, I'm not an complete idiot.

Anyway, just to prepare myself, I'm looking up videos on YouTube, but they all seem to have an different engine..... I'm supposed to have an Z14EXP, but in my memory mine engine looks nothing like that.....

Bare in mind, I live on Canary islands, not uncommon that people just change engine to whatever they can find cheap if the original one blows up.....

That could explain why it's extremely low geared, 5th gear in 35kph no problem. Great in busy city traffic but horrible on the highway...

So to get to the point of some of my questions...

If I have an older engine, what would the name be?

Is it possible to use the newer gearbox with an older engine?

I should get the car tomorrow or Monday, it's parked in another town. Guess I could be patient and wait.... But that's not really me, and to be honest, it's eating me up, hard time sleeping 😂

Anyway, thanks in advance for any kind of help!