Engine building "book" time

[Paul C]

Just thinking as i'm driving round (do a lot of miles to work!) whats the book time to assemble an engine. Once its all laid out on a bench, machining all done just assemble it. Not necessarily the book time, but peoples experiences? 8 hours? 10 hours?

[joe GSM]

If im building an engine i spend 8 hours cleaning just the block and painting it

[Paul C]

If im building an engine i spend 8 hours cleaning just the block and painting it

WOW that i didn't expect that. And what about assembling it Joe?

[grunty-motor]

If im building an engine i spend 8 hours cleaning just the block and painting it

i reckon i just spent about 6hours doing mine - thought i was being anal.....

[stu8v]

It took me about 2-3 weeks to build my mates Impreza motor.

Thats evenings and weekends.

Its all the check and rechecking reqd.