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[AyBee]

ATM said:

Jeweller70 said:

Ductile Iron I believe. We prefer this to steel as proven in my teams race experience.

Dont get in a technical debate with me on this as I dont have the knowledge, My guys built an amazing race engine for me so I take their view.

No plans to debate it. Just a sucker for details. Although I'll be honest and admit I have never heard of ductile iron.

It's where my question was going since I've been researching Hartech rebuilds Never heard of ductile iron either.

[LemonTart]

Hi OP I love what you are doing here.

Thank you for starting this thread, it’s a great read and I love the rate of progress.

Looking forward to it coming together and seeing and hearing about the end result.

Cheers

[Jeweller70]

Hartech have a great rep. Quite rightly they only do their kits fully installed , as my guys have an engine shop they could do all the work and wanted liners they have used in other builds.

I have never heard of Ductile Iron either, I thought all liners were coated steel. Somebody clever will be along to explain soon.

[Grantstown]

A ductile material can undergo plastic deformation without compromising its inherent properties. Ductile iron is still quite a broad description, so I’m guessing that the full details are important.

[AyBee]

Jeweller70 said:

Hartech have a great rep. Quite rightly they only do their kits fully installed , as my guys have an engine shop they could do all the work and wanted liners they have used in other builds.

I have never heard of Ductile Iron either, I thought all liners were coated steel. Somebody clever will be along to explain soon.

Do your guys do commercial engine rebuilds or are you a special case? Would be interested to know what they charge for a 3.9 rebuild.

[MC99]

Jeweller70 said:

Some of the Interior is back, very pleased

This looks fantastic, would you mind sharing who did it? pricey?

[Jeweller70]

Yep, the team will rebuild most engines. The engine shop always looks busy

They are based near Huntingdon, call Stephen on 07590 688211

[guyvert1]

Maybe this will help https://www.track-group.com/track-powertrain/engin...

[Jeweller70]

Engine done,

I didnt go over the top on making it overly pretty, clean and functional

Compared the oil stained heap we took out its 1000% better

What it goes like we will know soon

[Jeweller70]

Front, grills look great in the flesh, didnt photo too well.

[Jeweller70]

[AyBee]

Top work - looks lovely!

[olv]

Great colour.

When's the interior going back in?

[ATM]

Why is the spoiler black, did I miss that memo?

[Jeweller70]

Interior goes in week after next. Black Spoiler for the R look, its come out well

Splitter will be black as well

[scottos]

Looking good, love the colour!

The competition engine builders i help out at tends to use these guys for liners (if not going full silly with Darton (or others) sleeves), the link below gives a brief description of the differences:

https://westwoodcylinderliners.co.uk/technical/

[Jeweller70]

Yes it was Westwood they used.

[RiccardoG]

Interesting! I had come across Westwood before but as there was so little info about them assumed they weren't a good option. How wrong I was then!

[Jeweller70]

Lots of cleaning now,

[sxmwht]

God I'd love to do this. Nice work. Following