Mito 443 Project
Discussion
Yazza54 said:
Fleegle said:
Not going for a Nova box then?
I assume as you know what they are you also know what they cost.... f
k no!Have to draw the line somewhere. Maybe in future but I've got enough money sank in this for now.
........but where do you draw the line?
Hats off to you any way Ginge, you're doing a grand job......although there's only so much smoke you can blow up Mick's arse
Engine is nearly built but I've had some infuriating setbacks along the way.
I was really looking forward to getting to this stage, but buying an engine in bits has made this more difficult,
... It's not the end of the world the fact that I didn't strip it, but it does make it harder to build something you didn't take apart... What has been a total though is having boxes, and boxes and boxes of parts... Some very small but very significant parts missing.. Being on a roll then having to stop and order them, then start again. With the best will in the world I thought I had all bases covered but there's still been a few things that have stopped me in my tracks and I've ended up not enjoying this stage at all.
I'm looking forward to it being done though of course and not losing interest. It's just not gone as swimmingly as I hoped.
Case in point, tonight I came to torque up my primary drive and water pump driver gears on the end of the crank, easy... Then came to fit the inner clutch hub which on the face of it looked fine. Decided to look more closely and found a crack... So that's going in the bin and it's another wait and ££ until a new one arrives.
Last night a head stud snapped as I was fitting the head, even though they're spec'd at 20ftlb and I was creeping up on them 10, 15, 20, bang. Must have been a defective one, got it out the head ok but it's another fking wait to get a new set as I'm not chancing any of them now.
It's not far off and the rest has gone very well. Selects all gears nice, all new bearings, bushes, crank, gear selector pistons, barrels, head, billet basket, straight cut gears etc etc etc all new. There's not much that's second hand.
Anyway, some pics.. Just miffed it's not finished but it's not far away
I was really looking forward to getting to this stage, but buying an engine in bits has made this more difficult,
... It's not the end of the world the fact that I didn't strip it, but it does make it harder to build something you didn't take apart... What has been a total
though is having boxes, and boxes and boxes of parts... Some very small but very significant parts missing.. Being on a roll then having to stop and order them, then start again. With the best will in the world I thought I had all bases covered but there's still been a few things that have stopped me in my tracks and I've ended up not enjoying this stage at all. I'm looking forward to it being done though of course and not losing interest. It's just not gone as swimmingly as I hoped.
Case in point, tonight I came to torque up my primary drive and water pump driver gears on the end of the crank, easy... Then came to fit the inner clutch hub which on the face of it looked fine. Decided to look more closely and found a crack... So that's going in the bin and it's another wait and ££ until a new one arrives.
Last night a head stud snapped as I was fitting the head, even though they're spec'd at 20ftlb and I was creeping up on them 10, 15, 20, bang. Must have been a defective one, got it out the head ok but it's another f
king wait to get a new set as I'm not chancing any of them now. It's not far off and the rest has gone very well. Selects all gears nice, all new bearings, bushes, crank, gear selector pistons, barrels, head, billet basket, straight cut gears etc etc etc all new. There's not much that's second hand.
Anyway, some pics.. Just miffed it's not finished but it's not far away
Don't worry about it you will always find silly little things like that are a pain in the backside when doing something like this.
Wont do any harm changing the set anyway, such a simple thing but a critical part of the engine that people don't over look.
You seem to be doing a proper job of it so don't worry about it taking so long
Wont do any harm changing the set anyway, such a simple thing but a critical part of the engine that people don't over look.
You seem to be doing a proper job of it so don't worry about it taking so long
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