Heart of Darkness

[Edmond]

Balancing all the bits on my engine cost R550 and that was for everything even including the crank pulley

[JamesD]

my one piece of new old tin is a bit knackered, managed to panel beat the rest into decent condition. bit of Oxy acetylene work to do to get rid of some holes and patch in the heater cut outs.

Got NS7 matt black heat resistant paint for the engine tin. decided not to powder coat on account of that one piece that isn't perfect.

gotta get my mini sump and oil pump off the engine that suffered the flywheel failure still.

[JamesD]

here we go. Yes, i'm a lazy bastard that is too scared to screw up my precious engine so i'm having it built for me, But my word is it worth it! Look at this... Bruce is the man!

[JamesD]

Well its finished and in the car. A few of you might have heard it at Ferdi's. It is a right monster of an engine. Just have to sort out a few loose ends still. small leak on the oil pump. new fuel pump. fill up the holes in the rear tin. Install Electronic ignition. run wire for oil temp gauge.Buy ear plugs. i'll try take a video when i'm next home again. WOW! also need Chrome Moly push rods, dont think my standard ones are going to last. Definitely only going to run this on 95 octane! Also might need to think of swopping out my venturi's for larger ones or importing larger carbs.

[Blitzkrieg]

I want a spin when it's fully run it, sounds absolutely mad! Nice work, now paint the car your dark charcoal colour and lower it nicely

[JamesD]

Ok, so i coupled up the oil temperature sender.... 90 degree's!!!!

took it for a nice long drive out to the girlfriends's place, temp slowly rose and then hovered around 90 and i took it up to 120km/h for a while and did some stop start's, all good.

using a massive amount of fuel though but i need to check for leaks and fit new fuel lines. Also need to replace the fuel pump, hope it's not leaking into my oil...