IT LIVES!!!!!!!!!!

Turns out the distributor was not adjusted correctly. I am sure I followed the instructions in the book. Anyway the drive cog was out by about 90 degrees. This meant that the engine was spraking exactly on cylinder 4 when it should have been 1 :-(

It sounds amazing! Really throaty! Ran the cam in a 2000k for 20 mins as suggested somewhere and nothing sounds too bad so far. Need to get the accelerator connected up now. :-)

Engine installing

This weekend was mostly spent lifting engines :-( My dad arrived to give me a hand with the engine swap at about 5:30 on Friday. Amazingly by the close of play we had managed to get the old engine out! I couldn't believe we did it so quickly. For future reference I would remove the exhaust. It is possible to get the bellhousing past the exhaust pipe but very difficult and the time spent faffing about could be better spent getting pipes out of the way.

On Saturday we began to put the new engine in. I started bolting the HS6s onto the manifold. I guess that should be another post really..... My dad set to with the engine back plate. By the end of the day we had the new engine in and bolted down. Although the end was in sight it was still a long way off. We still had to attach all of the ancillaries.

So Sunday was all about getting the engine to run. Most of the day was spent bolting on all the bits and bobs around the engine bay. Strangely this took us till about 16:30 to complete. I guess the new manifold and carbs took up a lot of that time. After a swift cup of tea we began the boring task of starting it. First as per someones advise we ran the engine without spark pulgs apparantly to build up oil pressure. This seemed a bit unlikly to me but I didn't think it could do any harm. Having replaced the pulgs we fired her up. Or rather we didn't!

The next couple of hours were spent turning the engine over watching the carbs flood. Not a glimmer of life was shown from the engine. Confusion reigned. Having swapped the carbs at the same time as the engine and never having set them up before I was suspisious. We wnt through all the checks but the timing seemed right, the gap seemed close, the carbs had PLENTY of fuel?????

Ready for the off

The engine is now all together and ready to go. Everything went fairly well during the build up, the only thing I found time consuming was getting the cam timing right. In the end I think it might still be slightly out but as good as I could get without a vernier sprocket. The last little bit I have to do is get the old GT6 back plate off the GT6 engine and pop it onto the new engine.

Rebuild

The engine is now back from the shop. Head is faced as is the block. Bores are done and the whole lot is balanced! WOW that cost a bit :-(

Will now have to start the rebuild. The plan is to get it done in the evenings after work and then get it in on the weekend! Watch this space........