November 29, 2018 – Engine Rebuild Finished – Airboxes Cleaned up – New Driveshaft Boots

David texted me this morning with: “Hi Roland we are just about ready to ship the engine. We have had the engine apart checking the wear of bearings and the sealing of gaskets and seals.” After the 4th extended run of the engine on his jig, David disassembled things to inspect as stated above. During […]

November 27, 2018 – Steering Rack & Engine Firewall updates

David repackaged my Steering Rack and shipped it to me after testing last week with the engine – it arrived today. Here is the shipping container I created to ship it across country – reloaded with the newly rebuilt rack (details on this “shipping container” can be seen on the lower half of this posting). […]

Early November 2018 – Engine testing and component cleaning continues

David got the engine assembled and installed it in his test jig (a rolling SM chassis). He connected it to an old transaxle and installed it for testing along with my rebuilt steering rack. Rather than install a full fuel injection setup with all the sensors, he elected to mount a carburetor manifold and 3x2bbl […]