Jim Anderson,

The link below should take you to my "M112 Engine Review" in the Featured Cars Forum. If it doesn't you can search by that.

It is not a wet sleeve engine. That, at least to me, would imply a sleeve that can be pulled with a puller and replaced. Rather it is an "open deck" engine. The cylinder "sleeves" are a special alloy of some sort and are only permanently connected to the block at the bottom. The top is open around the sleeves and is, of course, sealed by the head gasket when installing the head.

I'm not into burnouts, I prefer to keep my cars in one piece and have tire life beyond a matter of minutes, but there is a switch on the dash that you press to disable the ESP then you can throw it around just like any car.

Cross bolted mains are additional main cap bolts that go through the side of the block bottom and into the side of the main caps. VERY STRONG. Other engines that have employed this that I'm aware of are MB racing engines of the past, The 427 and other high performance FE block Fords and the Chrysler Hemi of the sixties. This makes for a bullet proof bottom end and is much stronger than the four bolt configuration found on such engines as the four bolt SBC and Ford Clevelands.

The rest of the information will hopefully be found in the M112 engine review post.

http://www.peachparts.com/shopforum/showthread.php?threadid=1582&highlight=engine

I hope you enjoy it,