I've been looking for a LUV engine on-and-off for years. There are some
odd changes made on the 1817cc engines as time passed, too.
The head gasket for 1972 is a one-year-only, then 73-75, then 76-82.
72-75 engines have an intermediate shaft in the same location as the Rootes
engine's camshaft, and use 2 timing chains, one from crank to intermediate
shaft, then one from intermediate shaft to cam. These engines show the most
similarities to Rootes motors. 76 and newer motors use a conventional
crank-to-cam single chain.
I'm not sure what other differences there are between the various years, but
there's gotta be some dusty old engines out there somewhere!
Jon Arzt
Omaha, NE USA
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> Beleive it or not, I have been looking into the isuzu connection for
years,
> even scouring bone yards in hopes of finding an early chevy luv with en
> engine
> to ponder.
>
>
> This is what I know...
> 1) The isuzu engine that supposedly was a meticized rootes engine was the
> G160.
> 2) American chevy luvs used a the G180 and G181, which I hope is a 1.8
liter
>
> equivilient of the G160 engine.
> 3) There is not respect in the US for that engine or that make of vehicle,
> and
> as such has turned sort of into how the plymouth cricket is, in that
> there are
> none in bone yards or seemingly anywhere else.
>
> I'd really love to see if there is some possiblity of bolting the
G160/G180
> head on a 1725, in fact I'd go to great lengths to make to mods for the
> benefit of having OHC on an alpine engine.
>
> Anyone out there have more info, or soem ideas?
>
>
> Jarrid Gross
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