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Actually, these custom race pistons are 70 thou over - you can go bigger, but then you have to offset bore. You can sleeve them back to the stock...
They really are..... Kent Prather is a real guru on these little Sprite motors, his latest version is making 165 hp at the flywheel on the...
Oops, found this today..... This goes hand in hand with the bent pushrod and the "crop circle" in the top of the piston. Funny that they ran it...
This thread is to document some of the fun Minis for sale on BaT.... First up - this is a car belonging to a friend of mine, I drove it before he...
It's raining all weekend, so I'm down to cleaning and painting things.....ooooooh! Shiny! It's just good ol Rusty O'Leum, as this is a race motor...
The block came back from the machine shop pretty clean, but I still spent a good part of the day using a scotchbrite pad on all the bearing...
Surprisingly, my guy got the Sprite block bored and finish honed this afternoon, tomorrow he'll hone the wrist pin holes in the pistons and I...
OK, the block and old rods/pistons went to the machine shop today, I'm hopeful he can get it done by Friday, but we won't have rings and rod...
all righty then, lots done on this race motor, care of Kent Prather (who's also retired but failing at it too :-) ) Today they overbored the oil...
He decided to go with the 60 over pistons Kent has, so we'll get the block over to the machine shop on Wed, if they turn it out quickly enough...
Meh, things still hurt....I'm still going to PT long after I thought I would be done. I'm only good for a couple of hours on my feet a day, then...
I spent today getting the block ready to put together - cleaning everything thoroughly, running a tap into every threaded hole and cleaning them...
Depends on the paint, spraying is clearly easier and faster, dries quicker. The POR I did on a block came out terrific, looked almost like...
Didn't want people to think I was ignoring this build, I should get the block put together this weekend..... [ATTACH]
OK, I did the leave the conversation click and that worked, thanks!
The owner has decided to see if he can find some 40 over pistons, turns out one of the pistons had a broken ring land under the ring, pretty much...
Yes, I informed the owner that I would NOT be using that carp when I put it together for him. How did you like the "crop circle" on top of the...
Well, this engine turned out not to be so dire after all - it still will need major surgery but once I got the head off I expected to see a hole...
Yep, Moss bought them and promptly shut down the local warehouse sometime in late Dec. He's bringing it over tomorrow morning, I'll pop the head...
Watch this space - it promises to be ugly based on the description! No compression on #3, and it was blowing out a whole lot of oil, so my guess...