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Hi, After a long search I finally found a (busted) 6v 1500S engine from 1965, one with flat crowned pistons. What do I want that for you might ask ? I've got a 1965 1500S T34 KG. In the seventies someone put in a dual carb, dual port 12v 1600 engine (one whith the extra engine mounts), which runs great by the way. They also converted the rest of the car to 12v. Except for the transmission and thus starter motor !!! As you all know a 6v starter and 12v flywheel don't match so both are ruined. That's one of the reasons I took the 1600 engine out. But as I'm also a freaky purist I wanted a 1965 1500S engine and to convert the car back to 6v. I also have a 1967 12v 1500 single carb engine. The problem with the 1500 S engine is that, as you might have guessed, one of the valves broke and made a fairly nice hole in the piston. The guy I bought it from took the engine apart, ,got scared (?) and put the head and cylinders etc in a box and left it for some time. This resulted in a slight rust in both cylinders and the head. He also didn't block the holes in the case. My question to you all is what is wise and possible ?? 1) Clean the cylinders and head (possible? if so how), buy a new piston and valve and put it back together. 2) Use the cylinders and pistons of the 1500 single carb engine for the 1500S 3) also use the head from the 1500 single carb engine. 4) Take the whole 1500S engine apart because of metal parts at odd locations like oil pump, cooler etc, scrap the other 1500 engine and use as many parts from that one as possible. I worked on type 3 1600 engines before, but I can't quite figure out which parts from which engine are interchangeble. Does anybody have suggestions ?? Theo thepen@pi.net