Wow I'm lucky... the engine is now totally apart except for the crankshaft and I am plesantly surprised at how little wear the engine has considering it had 220,000km on it.
Everything looks brand new.... the block cylinders just need to be deglazed and I can re-use the existing pistons if I wanted.
Doesn't look like it's been abused in any way.... must have been driven by an old granny or something.
So basicly I could realisticly throw in a new set of rings and it would be ready to go.
I'm still going to get the block dunked into a de-greaser tank to remove the 16 years of old gunky oil inside and out and I will probably get them to hone the cylinders to give it a nice cross hatch pattern so the rings wear in nicely.
I also still plan to rebuild the head and get it ported and polished but the present condition of the engine is going to make this rebuild very easy.
I now have about 150 or more pictures of the step by step removal and disassembly of the engine and I hope to get them up onto my webspace one of these days for everyone to look at.
I would have to say that the most time consuming part of the engine swap thus far has been the removal of the evil tranny to block bolts and the wiring harness.