VERY helpful. Thank you !!
The "I didn't think of that" is the starting handle vs rad shell. He'd like a starting handle but maybe not as much as having a "known good engine and box" and mine hasn't got a handle. Its a "semi race" engine (did ok with it but not fully ported, smokes a bit, drips a bit, remembering now it was my "emergency stop gap engine" but it ran well so never came out again) and in my long chassis special was mounted 5ins back and up 3/4 or something.
Alignments I'm not worried about, given "proper" prop shaft joints not fabric, and given my experience thrashing mine with the engine in an odd spot.
Peddles should be ok. Firewall clearance not an issue at this stage of the build but "a big hole" a benefit for a number of reasons with a "fitted to the installation" plates to fill in round the edges. Am thinking how in a house skirting boards and door frames are used. Alas this isn't a "up on stands with room to walk round working on it every evening" build.
For a bit of thread creep - fabric joints... Are they fine if everything is in line? Are they robust enough for tuned cars and trials etc as long as everything else is "correctly rigged"?
The "I didn't think of that" is the starting handle vs rad shell. He'd like a starting handle but maybe not as much as having a "known good engine and box" and mine hasn't got a handle. Its a "semi race" engine (did ok with it but not fully ported, smokes a bit, drips a bit, remembering now it was my "emergency stop gap engine" but it ran well so never came out again) and in my long chassis special was mounted 5ins back and up 3/4 or something.
Alignments I'm not worried about, given "proper" prop shaft joints not fabric, and given my experience thrashing mine with the engine in an odd spot.
Peddles should be ok. Firewall clearance not an issue at this stage of the build but "a big hole" a benefit for a number of reasons with a "fitted to the installation" plates to fill in round the edges. Am thinking how in a house skirting boards and door frames are used. Alas this isn't a "up on stands with room to walk round working on it every evening" build.
For a bit of thread creep - fabric joints... Are they fine if everything is in line? Are they robust enough for tuned cars and trials etc as long as everything else is "correctly rigged"?