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[K4KEV]

Nice one guys......I had wondered about suggesting moving all current threads in the announcement section to a new or other section but someone has beaten me to it......simple but effective for the time being.

[K4KEV]

Got my freshly skimmed lightweight flywheel back and also sprayed the rocker covers....tomorrow I will be giving them a coat of clear lacquer and shortening my oil pick up pipe

[ayjay]

Those are works of art
Its freezing outside but those pics make me feel like going down to the garage and wizzing the engine out to re-do it(almost)

[vmax1974]

kev that is coming together as one very nice build the details your putting in is outstanding

[K4KEV]

cheers guys....that spurs me to keep up my build standard high.
managed to alter my oil pick up by cutting a couple of Vees in the bends then closing them up and silver solder the cuts together.....on trying it for size I have discovered I still have a 1/2" gap to lose....I manage to take this up by prizing the gauze out and then shortening the pipe inside by jut over 1/2" .... the gauze was then cut and reshaped, then nipped back into its original circle, I offered this up with the sump and all is hunky dory now, so with a little luck bottom end refurb should be complete later on today.
mind you I was cutting it a little fine with the pick up......once bolted on there is just 1mm clearance between the pipe and con rod big end
standard pick up


after 'v' ing the bends then soldering them up


just 1mm clearance wher the big end rotates past the pick up



and now with the very end and gauze shortened.

[flyerncle]

What a bloke,even the oil pick up is a work of art.

[K4KEV]

Ha Ha Paul....cheers bud....the head mod I was going to do started to take shape a couple of days ago......this is a couple of extra drainage channels for oil that gets trapped in the camshaft covers especially at high rpm and acceleration.
What I have done is drill a 7mm hole in some core plugs at the back of the cylinder head and then turned down some brass tubing to create a flange and some barbs for fitting rubber pipes.....these fit nicely into the drilled holes with some o rings for sealing,...... pressure to seal is applied with some made up aluminium plates bolted on,
I placed some kitchen roll inside the cam covers to stop any swarf from migrating anywhere, when I finished I moved a neodymium magnet inside near the freshly drilled hole and it did a good job of collecting all the swarf on the inside
holes drilled in core plugs at back of cylinder head


brass barbed/flanged drain outlets


ally plates made up to apply sealing pressure on o rings behind brass flanges of drain outlets

[robo]

Nice mod that kev. Thats the same sort of thing done on any high rpm race engine. Gets the oil back quicker, keeps it off the rotating stuff, stops foaming and helps with windage. its all a plus. Are sure that gap from the pick up pipe to the rotating stuff is enough????

Bob

Edit. Forgot to say its looking Gooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooood

[K4KEV]

yep ....it had me thinking a bit Bob ....so I flattened the pipe a bit in the middle and managed to eek out another mm so I now have 2mm clearance.....crankshaft scrapers run at a helluva lot less so I thinks I should be ok now ....have also welded the brace back on too.
Got a nice clean cylinder head to sort out now, so I gave the coil rail a good clean.... ca18det engines have a coil for each spark plug, and got that fitted then I moved on to re-fit my nice blue cam covers, also tried the plug cover but I think that might be painted the same red colour as my bodywork, got to start cleaning/painting all the pipework and ancillaries but it is nice to put something on the engine knowing that it ain't coming off again.

nice clean cams/bays


cam covers fitted

[robo]

The attention to detail is top notch kev. That little lot will look the nuts in the roadster

Bob