15-09-2020, 09:38 AM
Hi Colin
The pistons were an unmatched set condemned by a good friend whose engineering advice I trust. It's easy to blame the bloke who was there before, but I am fairly sure the engine builder was presented with a selection of used parts and asked to sort it as best he could within a limited budget. The previous owner who commissioned the rebuild used the car very little and so probably had no aspiration to get 60,000 miles out of the rebuilt engine.
As an enthusiastic amateur enjoying picking up the spanners after a hiatus of several decades, a frustration I have with these old engines is to understand what, whilst less than ideal will nonetheless "do the job". For now I want to get what I 've got operational, and I think what I'm doing should deliver four reasonably well fitted and balanced rods. They're not going to be perfect, it's the first time I've scraped in a bearing, so it will be interesting to see if they last.
The pistons were an unmatched set condemned by a good friend whose engineering advice I trust. It's easy to blame the bloke who was there before, but I am fairly sure the engine builder was presented with a selection of used parts and asked to sort it as best he could within a limited budget. The previous owner who commissioned the rebuild used the car very little and so probably had no aspiration to get 60,000 miles out of the rebuilt engine.
As an enthusiastic amateur enjoying picking up the spanners after a hiatus of several decades, a frustration I have with these old engines is to understand what, whilst less than ideal will nonetheless "do the job". For now I want to get what I 've got operational, and I think what I'm doing should deliver four reasonably well fitted and balanced rods. They're not going to be perfect, it's the first time I've scraped in a bearing, so it will be interesting to see if they last.