Latest build
Posted: Mon Dec 16, 2019 4:52 pm
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Re: Latest build
Posted: Wed Dec 18, 2019 5:32 am
Re: Latest build
Posted: Wed Dec 18, 2019 6:20 am
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Ian
Ian
Re: Latest build
Posted: Wed Dec 18, 2019 5:05 pm
Thanks for the comments.
I've had all the parts on the shelf in my workshop for nearly 4 years but no time to assemble them.
Hoping to fire it up over the christmas break and then its going in a Defender.
I've had all the parts on the shelf in my workshop for nearly 4 years but no time to assemble them.
Hoping to fire it up over the christmas break and then its going in a Defender.
Re: Latest build
Posted: Wed Dec 18, 2019 5:41 pm
Video or it didn't happen 
Re: Latest build
Posted: Thu Dec 19, 2019 10:16 am
Looks beautiful. Is that throttle body injection?
Re: Latest build
Posted: Thu Dec 19, 2019 5:24 pm
No, it's real old school. An AED 850HO
Re: Latest build
Posted: Wed Jan 15, 2020 8:12 pm
Oil system now plumbed in.
Oil is supplied through the front and rear of the block. With mains measuring 3.25" in diameter you cant have enough oil flow.
The twin feed picks up the end of the drivers side lifter gallery and helps to even out the flow to the rearmost mains.
Oil is supplied through the front and rear of the block. With mains measuring 3.25" in diameter you cant have enough oil flow.
The twin feed picks up the end of the drivers side lifter gallery and helps to even out the flow to the rearmost mains.
Re: Latest build
Posted: Thu Jan 16, 2020 9:04 pm
How did you get the screw in bung thing out ? I bent allen keys trying to get mine out, even heated the surrounding ally up a bit . Just wanted to clean the galleries out of an engine that had chewed up all the bearing shells .
Re: Latest build
Posted: Thu Jan 16, 2020 9:31 pm
It was a lot easier with this being a cast iron block. I just put a lot of heat on both of them.
Re: Latest build
Posted: Wed Jan 22, 2020 6:07 pm
It lives.....the Beast is awake....all 455 cubic inches of her.
I hate breaking cams in, it's always one of those bottom twitching moments.
I had intended to post a video but the audio quality on the one I did is terrible so I'll do another video tomorrow.
I hate breaking cams in, it's always one of those bottom twitching moments.
I had intended to post a video but the audio quality on the one I did is terrible so I'll do another video tomorrow.
Re: Latest build
Posted: Wed Jan 22, 2020 6:10 pm
sit nicely in the capri that will 
Re: Latest build
Posted: Wed Jan 22, 2020 7:05 pm
Re: Latest build
Posted: Wed Jan 22, 2020 7:07 pm
Re: Latest build
Posted: Mon Jan 27, 2020 5:25 pm
Just to prove it did happen.
This is after cam break in.
The engine uses Rhoads lifters which is why it sounds a little tappety at low rpm.
My secret weapon is the hi performance exhaust system....especially the muffler
This is after cam break in.
The engine uses Rhoads lifters which is why it sounds a little tappety at low rpm.
My secret weapon is the hi performance exhaust system....especially the muffler