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Annoys me a bit that one.

... So where do you go from there?.... I should think that even with just a basic knowledge of cam timing you should be able to get the cam timed in to a tooth without a cam wheel. Stock cams inlet all shut between 70 and 77 degrees After Bottom Dead Centre so should be that difficult. With that in...

Could it be just a number for a spares new short block assembly - hence why no list as being associated with particular car.

There were quite a few of these new short assemblies kicking about a while back and may explain all the secondhand parts bolted to it. SD1 cover 14 bolt heads etc.

Have a google search about indexing the cam off by 90 degree's ETA Looks like the keyway and the dot are typically 90 degrees apart on the cam wheel so I wonder if the dot has been marked by the keyway or the keyway has been lined with the crank mark instead of the dot. Speculation - only a few bolt...

The valves were quite clearly open quite a way when the piston came up on compression / exhaust so the timing is at least a tooth out - Which is the reason for the no compression. You may have been very lucky to get away with what you have. I would have thought you would have felt that contact when ...

I have taken a break from the glassfibre works to get my old flowbench up and running again - minor set-back with a lead being damaged but its all go now. A short while ago I bought a set of calibration plates from Bruce at PTS so that I could set the bench up and have complete faith in the figures ...

That looks stock and a pretty high mileage - The photo's of mine above are from when I stripped the engine to check it was all as the bills that came with the car before selling it. Ten years old but low mileage. Again DJE stamped the blocks he worked on on the faces near the bellhousing. http://i22...

Balanced could look like this with material ground off the crank. DJE 4.0L http://i220.photobucket.com/albums/dd87/Dutton_Andy/Ginetta%20G27%20V8/100_5948_zpsnsqjuzsb.jpg http://i220.photobucket.com/albums/dd87/Dutton_Andy/Ginetta%20G27%20V8/100_5969_zpsbiq9bzrv.jpg Balanced will have bits machined ...

A search on here will also bank a fair a mount of info. A ported RV8 is like night and day compared to stock the heads are just that bad for flow. Just found an article for a 350i wedge, seems to hit the nail on the head: I've just ported a set of heads to stage 1, which involved opening the throat ...

Thanks for the head info, that makes sense. The Vitesse do seem to have bigger valves etc, would they be classed as performance? Valves are not bigger just a waisted stem as are most later heads - flow is still strangled by the throat - you can put all the valve you like, big as you can but without...

If the heads are stock and unmodified you can put as much cam, carb and compression as you like on it - It will not do 200BHP - for stock heads 168BHP is about as much as you could ever expect. ETA Graph shows as expected with stock deads - flow stops after 5500. Lift the valve as much as you like a...

With paraffin leaking at that tiny rate I would have expected more than enough compression to start an engine - for 0-10 PSI in all cylinders, for one reason or another the valves would have to be open when the pistons came up on compression. I can only think of two reasons that the valves would be ...

I would not expect that amount of valve leakage to prevent the engine from starting. I would have still expected some half decent compression with only that amount of paraffin leaking after that time . You would have found that after an hour or so running the valves would have hammered themselves in...

You hi-jack and interrupt as often as you like :nw I will never learn anything if you just sit back in the arm chair in hysterics :rofl at my stumbling around coated in resin and glass strands with a gel brush stuck to my forehead ... I will see how the bumpers come out of the mould - Idea was only ...

All of the above. :whs In the other thread But I'm also sure it blew the yellow wax everywhere too all over the mould surface which then needed cleaning off. No doubt with a much stronger mould there would have been less flex and it may not have helped as much, but it was a first couple of attempts ...