Hello All,
I hope you're all well and your years are going ok. Nearly christmas now eh?! *eye roll*
So, here we have a long awaited update, this one for the engine!
The head, block and rotating components were delivered to him in a relative state of disrepair. Largely complete but a bit unloved and definitely not in any state to go back together.
apparently he managed to get this finish with water washing only!
the standard valvegear was removed at this point. valves seats and guides all look fine. guides are one of the few components which are reused with the SBD camtrain.
freshly skimmed, Sir? i think he only took off the very top surface, as he said that in order to get the correct compression ratio(10.5:1) he didnt have to touch the head, block or pistons.
the block was washed and measured. rebore not required, just a hone and bore prep to SBDs recommendation.
i also did a modification of my own. SBD recommends that the baffle plate that sits within the head be modified to prevent oil hang up in the head. This was done to SBDs diagram available on their website. Note the hashed and non hashed areas. doing this enables any oil which makes it up the breather on the side of the engine to spill back over the plate and find its way back to the bottom of the engine.
expensive looking boxes started to arrive.....
the crank along with all of the rotating assembly was lightened and balanced together(clutch cover plate, crank, external trigger wheel and pulley).
a number of months went by with me steadily supplying him with bits, and eventually i went over and collected everything....
I was pretty damn happy with the quality of finish and standard of work, especially from a small one-man-band type outfit.
the next step was to take everything up to Mum and Dads.
on the workmate whilst we cleaned and tapped out various threads.
dangling...from the venerable engine crane. you probably need a fair few hands to count how many engines this has put in.
fun fact: the crane originally came from a company called Micromass where my mum used to work(a long time ago now), where she used to write software for mass spectrometers. The crane was used to lift those about.
back where it belongs.
This felt like a watershed moment, getting it into the car. and it all became quite real all of a sudden. lots of work/time/money/effort to get to this point
thats all part of the fun though!
let me know what you think, along with any questions.
thanks,
Pete
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