Brand new TD cylinder head

RKM · Post by **RKM** » Mon Nov 23, 2009 11:36 am

Yup, you read right, well, almost.

When I bought my BX, I bought another one for spares, which belonged to a very good family friend. His cylinder head cracked, and so he bought a brand new shell (at a cost of over £750), had new valves installed and he fitted his second-hand cam and injectors to it.

While testing the engine on the road, to set the turbo up (as he had a new one fitted as well), the octopus pipe failed, and so, deciding he had had enough, he sold me the car for spares. I took the head off and have stored it for the past 7 years.

So, there you have it, a almost new cylinder head that has covered around 70 miles.

What's it worth? £100?

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Post by **mat_fenwick** » Mon Nov 23, 2009 11:45 am

Bugger.

As they say, timing is everything...

I would guess that it's worth more than £100 - a second hand head would tend to fetch between £50 and £100 as breakers won't be keen to split up a good engine, and you don't often get bottom end failure. If there's no interest on here I'd be tempted to raise some pennies on eBay.

RKM · Post by **RKM** » Mon Nov 23, 2009 12:10 pm

well, i'm not greedy! Offered here first - would be nice to think that a BX owner would buy it for spares; I did not know that 1.7 and 1.9 XUD turbo heads are the same.

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Post by **mat_fenwick** » Mon Nov 23, 2009 12:29 pm

I applaud your sentiments - money is in my eyes the root of all evil (but necessary to survive).
The heads aren't identical but I believe they are compatible. Someone like Vanny or Doc will probably be able to point out the differences!

RxBX · Post by **RxBX** » Mon Nov 23, 2009 8:35 pm

RKM wrote:Offered here first - would be nice to think that a BX owner would buy it for spares

IIRC "MULLEY" was after a TD head for his TZD unless he's sourced one now ? I'm sure he may spot this post, if not send him a PM

MULLEY · Post by **MULLEY** » Mon Nov 23, 2009 9:03 pm

I dont have £100 for a head unfortunately

toddao · Post by **toddao** » Tue Nov 24, 2009 5:22 pm

I think that's a reasonable price but whether there's any demand for such a thing is another issue.
I bought a complete new head here in D for my 1.9 n/a for €100. the only strange thing about it was that the cam didn't have the right casting on the end for the HP pump pulley so it could have been for a Peugeot, though it was still boxed up and labelled by Citroen for a BX. Did they change the cam casting during the life of the diesel BX for the pump pulley?
This would probably be the only thing that would prevent someone with a Peugeot/ Xantia etc rather than a BX buying your nearly new head RKM - what's on the end of the cam shaft though they could swap in their cam I suppose if it's their head that's cracked.
It's ironic that your friend invested so many $$$s then gave up with the octopus - perhaps the drop that brought the barrel to overflow?