Crank case to block studs

[Alan]

Not at all, Ian. I’ve always glued my race engines together. My comments are based on an engine I recently rebuilt. Admittedly I hadn’t built it in the first place but when I took it apart, all of the nuts were loose and the gasket seemed very soft. I don’t know the provenance of the engine, who built it, or where the bits came from, but it’s enough to make me wonder. That joint is a critical one. I’m not sure that introducing what is essentially a soft rubber sheet into the equation is the right thing to do.