Engine Build Underway
Well we have finally started assembling the engine, the bottom end is now finalised after a few false starts with the crank clipping the block firstly, and then the skirt on the piston, the block was relatively easy to sort , for the pistons we had to send the crank back to the machine shop for a bit of reworking, then back to have it re-balanced etc etc, why is everything so hard ?
Anyway we have now been able to measure and order push rods which should be the last piece of the jigsaw puzzle, (I hope I dont live to regret those words.)
I have included a picture of the cam followers we use, they are from Crane and are called "Hippos" you can just see a small bore hole that allows oil to be delivered under presure from
the Cam shaft gallery onto the needle rollers, we have used these for the last 4 seasons and to date the have held up for the entire season, prior to that we were experiencing needle roller failures.
My engine builder will not be drwan on the numbers he expects but given the amount of time and money they had better be bloody good
Regards
Iain