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Wednesday, June 25, 2014

Making Progress...

What am I looking at?! L-R: Cylinder, Piston, Wrist pin, Connecting Rod
I finally got a large enough block of time to install the newly worked piston, cylinders and heads onto the salt bike…


Monday, June 9, 2014

My very own "Altar to the gods of Speed"...

Over $1000 worth of machine work and parts, ready to re-install!
Got the pistons back after de-carboning, with new rings and scrubbers. And the cylinders have been cleaned up and re-honed, and of course the heads have been rebuilt.
You can see in the photo above the parts are divided between the right and left sides of the engine, so I can keep track of what goes where on install, and to make sure I'm not missing anything.
Now? I've just got to get it all back together and see if she'll run!

Here's a cut-away of a BMW "airhead" engine, showing where a lot of the stuff currently on my bench goes...