Another phonecall came in last week from Richard. And it was not full of good news… After half a day of brazing the RH cylinder Richard discovered a crack in the spigot. This only became visible when the block was hot… The crack is at a difficult place to braze and leaves the cylinderblock in [...]
Today Richard Blackburn rang me with the not so good news that reboring my LH side cylinder did in fact not completely clean up the distortion cause by the brazing of the ports. You can see the distortion on the pictures. It is at the 7 o’clock position where it is thin, and then at [...]
Last week I got an update from Richard Blackburn who has been working hard on my engine. The cylinder block is about half way now. He brazed up the crack between the two cylinders and he also brazed up all the ports I wanted shut in one cylinder. Doing so the cylinder had become slightly [...]
After quite some thinking I decided I would really like my engine completely done before this season. So including the pistons and the rods… I contacted both Roger Moss and Richard Blackburn about this. With a bit of organising and distributing the work over them both I think it could just be done in time. [...]
