My brother just replaced the engine in his 2003 focus (big end went on his first). We are a bit suspicious that the engine we got from the scrappy is older than what they said it was. Where would the engine code be on this so that i can check the age of engine?

Thanks

Mikkel

IIRC it should be a SIgma SE for a 1.6 focarse as my mate has had exactly the same problem with his, and we've been hunting for months for a breaker that has a running engine (and guess what every one is being broken due to bottom end failure!)

well thats another thing! The one we took out was an SE, the one we got was an S

From memory, on mine there is a bar code stuck to the back of the engine (sorry, but I can't remember exactly where) plus I'm pretty sure that the year of manufacture is cast on the block. Mine has an 03 cast on it.

Burton have a chart for identifying Ford manufacture dates at;

http://www.burtonpower.com/technical_1/ford_date_chart.aspx

Hmm, theres one along the road from me with big end gone as well!

Have a look on the castings for the little circular calenders that indicate the exact time of manufacture for a good idea.

The engine code on a 1600SE is here:


1600SE

The look on the Burton website to find the date of manufacture:
Linky

Ed.