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Category: Project – 2019 New Engine
AS41 Engine – Day 9 – Alternator and Fan assembly
The new alternator was done and ready to have the fan mounted to it. I think it will all work well together in terms of the colors I’m going with. I have no doubts it will get all scratched up before I even get it all into the car. I’m happy I’ve gone with the…
AS41 Engine – Day 9 – Rocker Teardown and Cleaning
So after some back and forth on the Facebook forums I decided to configure this engine with the forged SCAT 1.25:1 ratio rocker arms. I’m going to dig out the AH engine’s stock ones that I previously disassembled and cleaned way back in February 2018. I’ll put those on the new solid shafts I have…
AS41 Engine – Day 8 – More tin work
I wish I could say I got a lot done today but all I did was work on the tins some more. Now I know that there will always be a risk of scratching the paint. It isn’t like these are powder coated. So I’m trying to ensure they get solid layers with proper sanding…
AS41 Engine – Day 7 – Some tin work
So I accidentally cracked the base of a cylinder yesterday which more or less put everything on hold again in terms of assembly. A new set is on order and I learned my lesson the hard way. Tin Paint and Repaint I decided to pass the time waiting for the new set to arrive by…
AS41 Engine – Day 6 – Not the Lord of The Rings
So I’m following the Wilson guide on checking the initial deck height and I read the info incorrectly. Or more accurately, I read it literally. The books goes in to setting up 1 mocked up piston and cylinder at TDC but it states to not bother doing it with the rings on the pistons, or…
AS41 Engine – Day 6 – More installations.
I decided that since it will be many days before the engine is complete, there will be plenty of time for that JB weld material to continue curing and I decided to reassemble the case and get a bit more done from where I left the AH build. The 1/2 case half needed one last…
AS41 Engine – Day 6 – The repair seems to have worked.
So yesterday’s plugging with the high heat JB Weld Epoxy Putty cured hard as a rock overnight. Both the interior plug and the exterior one, both covering the aluminum NPT plugs, do not feel like they’ll be going anywhere soon. On to other installations! Yay!
AS41 Engine – Day 5 – Transferring the innards!
So I I cleaned up the bearings and reset them from the AH case to the AS41 case and then transferred the assembled crank and the cam. I regressed some things, got the timing marks aligned between the cam and crank, and after a shitload of fiddling finally got the 3 bearings on the crank…
AS41 Engine – Day 5 – Final case prep, repair, and on last alteration!
The case got a final washing inside and out. I blew air through all the galleries and went through a few towels getting all the water out. I sat them in front of a fan for quite a while and that got them totally dry. The plugs went permanently in, as well as the return…