Engine Rebuild
Sent the engine off to the the work shop to get rebuilt back in January this year, I finally picked it up yesterday. I sourced most of the parts for them to do the wotk including the complete gasket set, new stainless steel valves, new bigend bearings and rings. One of the liners was replaced as mentioned earlier in this thread. All components were acid dipped and wet blasted, the crank was crack tested & polished and I had the main tunnel & main bearings modified to have the jounals without oil holes drilled with oil holes to the main gallery, this was a recommendation from Geroge Evans Last picture so this modification was done.
The first picture shows the engine the day it went off to the work shop.
I liked what Ross had done with the crinkle black on the rocker covers of his Jalpa so I have done simliar, it was sprayed in the crinkle black and then the lettering and two of the fins were machined back to the aluminum. I think this looks pretty good :-) as in second picture.
The third picture is at the workshop and the extra parts they painted with the crinkle black AC pulley not on at this point.
Still got to finish preparing the engine bay before the engine can go back in, I imagine I'm still a Month or two before I'll be ready to fire her up but can't wait :-)
The Fourth picture is of the engine back at home you can see the adjustable VW oil drain down tubes and the flywheel and pulleys fitted.
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Last edited by Jalpa_Aus : 07-24-2008 at 09:50 PM.
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