Oh hey! I forgot I made this thread
Well, I've done a few engine teardowns since the last one from Phil's Kuro, but that'll take some digging to go back through and find
BUT! Today I bought and stripped a 44k mile 192 block that was removed, running rough and had to limp it home, owner ended up 231 swapping the car and this just sat in his garage for a while. New SGS stand and engine as an almost bare block for £40 and £80 respectively from the fella, so thought it was worth a punt. Also gets me a second engine stand
"for reasons". Don't need two - but more the merrier
bought another rotary engine stand adapter to pair with it - awesome little things! They're a must as it's so much nicer using these plates than the stock bolt pass-through things the piston engines/gearboxes use?
Anyways - on to the engine...
Getting better at whizzing these front bolts off, wedge it against the wall with my 3/4 breaker bar on it with a 3m length of unistrut, and a helper to push the engine stand into the wall so it doesn't fall over
impact still doesn't touch em, either on rebuilt ones or stock ones, the sealant just takes the bite out of the hammer and doesn't break the seal
Cracked the rear iron off, to see all manner of utter carnage and destruction
What a mess!
Two apex seals decided to exit stage left, with the third still hanging on in there but cracked in all number of places, all side/corner seals still intact but not like that's a redeeming factor at this point
inner coolant seal had a split at the top of the housing on the rear face, and then just irons/rotor/housing are all toast. Complete scrap.
Luckily, the same is not to be said of the front rotor. Nice and clean, lovely stuff. All seals intact, no visible wear or issues with the rotor or housing, minimal edge wear and the most minor of chatter, but no chips, grooves or anything of the sort!
seems like it's my 3rd good housing I've got
only shame is there's a deep circular groove on the front iron, which I can only assume is from an oil control ring?
you can really catch your nail on it - I assume it can't really be flattened and re-done?
(see second to last pic)
Either way - I've got a rotor, housing and an e-shaft out of the ordeal, plus the nice shiny SGS engine stand so I'm a happy boy
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) but the front bolt is proving very stubborn - this engine hasn't been apart before. Will leave it that side up and soak it in plusgas, charge up the batteries to 100% full and see where that gets me! 
| Harry | 
now it's always good to be safe, PPE is essential of course.... 