Tonight I finished fully assembling the bottom end (clutch, counter balancer, shift mechanism). I have the cylinder bolted down, and the head. Somehow I lost a couple of head bolts, so I have to buy a few of those and some washers tomorrow. I have all the engine seals in also. I had forgotten along the way that I needed a clutch cover, as the mock up one I was using is broken all to, and the other one I had had 2 holes in it from the main crank bolt backing out on me on another motor about 2 years ago at Hernando.So for the initial test fire in the next day or two, I'm going to borrow one. I did a little gasket scraping and clean up on the intake, I have to make a gasket for the V-force reed cage. Finish welding together my revised exhaust flange when I first started the pipe, I had forgotten it is only kind of tacked. Will probably match port it up to the cylinder some also. I never did make any permanent mounts for the pipe or finish the silencer. Really wanted to hear the thing run before I spent anymore time on that exhaust, as I have more into it than pretty much the whole rest of the engine project just about at this point.
What do you guys think - should I pick a day once I've got everything ready and do a Youtube Live Broadcast of me trying to fire it up? I think there is some way to do that now.
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Originally Posted by Billy Golightly
more on that another time perhaps) but here is some new engine pornography for your consumption;
