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Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year to all members and owners of a Smart Car.....It's that time of year again......waiting for the white stuff to give us a white Christmas, it can hang around for a few weeks then kindly leave....if it would....lol I'm too old to enjoy the cold and snow like in my younger years......lol Enjoy everyone and stay safe.

Ouch those valves are in great shape...lol. Time for new seats....a good machine shop should be a help. Give them the head and valves and also ask about valve guides....I replaced mine also.....I also was able to reuse my main bearings after plasti-gaging them, so was lucky. I think my guides came from some mini van a dodge caravan I think that my machinist made fit.....but could be wrong or that was another engine ......but this sounds right..? The only things I didn't replace was the block, crank ,head, crank bearings, rods, cam. If I remember correctly.. Everything else was replaced with new. All from MW-SMART. Oh...the vacuum pump for the brakes on the righthand end of the engine I got from Romania, also excellent, just searched it and found it there as MW-SMART didn't have a new one.