The whole mixture of parts that are used in my engine set me thinking. Thinking on the issue of port timing. With the the parts not at hand it was difficult to calculate the porttiming so I asked Richard to mock up the engine once more and measure the timing for me. I just wanted [...]
As always things tend to go wrong just at the moment you do not need it… This time it was an email that did not get delivered… The email in which I told Richard about my decision not to participate in the rally and that the need to rush was over… He did not get [...]
Yesterday evening Richard send me an email with the good news that the engine will most probably be send today! He finished pegging the pistons and gapping the rings. See the beautiful endresult on the left. He also ground the gudgeon pins to size and made and fitted the bronze endpads. From the pictures I [...]
Yesterday Richard emailed me with the good news that the engine is almost ready for shipment! Last week he worked on the piston blanks to make them suit the flat head block. First thing he did was welding on some extra material to be able to reprofile the head of the pistons to match the [...]
Finally there seems to be some real progress! After my earlier posting on the 486 block it turned out that Colin also had a pair of piston blanks that could be adapted to suit the block. And even better… a pair of good 63,5 mm early shortstroke cranks! Yesterday we agreed on a price and [...]
