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I ran the engine in with 3 15 minute heat cycles. September 01 2025. This is how the plugs came out after the running in and before any...
August 18 2025. Engine complete. Still have to instal new spark plugs. [ATTACH] August 19 2025. The starter motor would throw out but not turn...
August 13. 38 top loader fitted and the engine going in. [ATTACH] August 15. Driveline all fitted up. Top end pulled apart for a tidy up and...
August 10 to 12 2025. Starter painted, engine painted, chassis prepped, rebuild date painted on the back of the block. Ready to...
[ATTACH] July 30 2025. Engine completed and back in my shed I added a timing pointer and notched the pulley for TDC. Prepping for paint. This is...
[ATTACH] [ATTACH] Mid July 2025. I would have been picking the engine up but the flywheel fouled the block. We figured out the problem and I got...
“THE CRACK” This seems to got a few people’s attention. That engine was cracked before I bought it. I don’t know or really care how or why it...
Thanks for the compliment. Yes, the transmission was completely my fault. I was messing around with my sons, dumping the clutch and doing little...
July 2025. Ken assembling valves. We used a melling high volume oil pump so I had to modify the pick up to suit the 8ba style...
The cracked block I was told came out of a car from South Africa. But the same guy who told me this took decent money from me for a “good engine...
[ATTACH] [ATTACH] [ATTACH] [ATTACH] June 2025. Lots of phone conversations and visits to Kens workshop. All machining done. 16 valve seat inserts...
[ATTACH] [ATTACH] October 2024. I broke the gearbox so the engine came out.
[ATTACH] [ATTACH] [ATTACH] These are from our rod run in September 2024.
[ATTACH] [ATTACH] [ATTACH] August 2024. The oil pan I wanted to use had no starter cover. I made one out of stainless steel and polished it. It...
[ATTACH] July 2024, One of the last times I drove the coupe before the fresh engine. This is our local theatre, built in 1929.
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