First things first with the engine already stripped he bores needed re-honing this took a wee bit longer than expected due to a lip at the bottom of the bores but Steve managed to get it doen in the end and the result is..shiney as new bores.
Just as Steve was finishing off the honing tool decided to just disintegrate on him..good job he had finished. Steve had of course marked everything so that all went back in the same place they all came from so the next job was to fit the new sealed for life rings...
For the more savvy of you readers you will notice in the second picture that the rings are marked Cut Napier these are the top rings that are designed to cope with...."Nitro" yes drag racings special ingredient, well we have to future proof ourselves???
The thing is the rings have to be hand cut to size and fitted and then checked and adjusted as required and as you can imagine it takes some time but with the help of Dave Steve managed to do all of them.
All of this had taken a lot of time and we were now on day two so now it was time to start buttoning everything up, put the heads back on etc etc
And while Steve was adjusting everything up Dave got to work fitting the new flex plate and torque converter,
All in all a lot was accomplished but the fitting of the rings took a bit longer than expected so it was probably a bit optimistic for me to think we might make the Hot Rod Drags, this wont happen the new injection system hasn't even arrived yet? so it looks like we will be spectators instead, but it wasn't for the want for trying. so good luck to all racers we hope to be back up and running for next season stranger and faster than ever.
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