Well it has been a while since I've updated this thread!

Been busy with home renovations, which had made me some what poor. Neglecting my car, bikes and the dead engine at the same time.

Anyways thought I'd ring around today to get some prices about possible bore/resleeve job on the auxiliary shaft on the block. As suspected, most told me to not bother and just find another second hand block. It will be cheaper with less headaches. Since I am poor, I am going to go the second block option for the time being. Wouldn't mind putting double race bearings on the broken block in the future as tickford_6 suggested...but not sure if it's worth the effort.

From the dozen engine rebuilder/reconditioners I called, only 3 of them could do the job and quoted about 2 hours labour which would be anywhere between $200-350. They only gave me a rough estimate which is understandable since they haven't seen the block. For that price, I think it is best to just find a spare block or a complete dead engine.

So now I am on the hunt for a second hand engine/block...running or not...preferably $100ish would be ideal in price. If anyone has one or knows anyone scrapping an EL engine, please let me know

Also got quoted about $500 for a specialist to put my block back together and roughly $600 for an ACL Race Series rebuild kit. Worse case scenario, $1200 for supplied and fitted of internals.

EDIT: Got a call back just as I posted from another rebuilder and they said they can bore it out, tap in a bush for $155 + GST...so $170.50. Which isn't too bad I think...need to ponder about this. I would assume the reliability of tapping a bush in depends on the material the bush is made of? How much would double race bearings cost (just the bearing...assuming the boring of the aux shaft costs the same?)

Thanks for that guys. I will have a look around. I'm pretty sure my work has a bearing catalog somewhere. Would it be ideal to reduce the diameter of the auxiliary shaft to suit a bearing's inner race?

I assume this is a double race needle roller bearing?

Thats a single race.

You need this type

Would it be best to round down the auxiliary shaft to suit the inner race of the bearing? or better to find a bearing to suit the shaft and then bore out the block to fit the outer race?

If I was starting with a good shaft and block I'd try to find a bearing that would fit the block with minimal machining and then machine the shaft to fit the ID of the bearing.

In your case find a bearing the will give enough room to machine both the block and shaft to remove all the damage.

Thanks for your input, it reinforces my plan .

I ended up calling CBC bearings and gave them a random measurement of the bearing I needed. I am really bad at guestimating sizes and being at work, I don't have access to measuring the hole size, so gave him an OD of 70mm, width of 30mm and ID of anything. He came back with a 72mm OD, 40mm width and ID of 58mm costing $136.25. He also said there is a sleeve that can go into the ID in case the shaft is not hardened steel and may wear out or something along those lines. The sleeve reduces ID to 50mm and costs $46 extra.

So worse case scenario, $400 to put a bearing into the block (including block/shaft machining and bearings/sleeve)

I know the bearing sizes are probably WAY off, but it gave me some kind of idea.

No disrespect intended, but is it really wothwhile?
I bought the whole car that my current engine came out of for $200.
I would consider other options in this case. Just my opinion.

Some people buy cheap used engines and run the risk of getting a s**t one. Some people fix what they have knowing that it's fixed. It's been a long time since I saw an EA-EL with under 200 000km on it.