Grief Update - Engine Rebuild

[Richieboy3008]

Matthew Poxon said:

Thanks Nigel, I will check that out. I was looking at getting them anodised. The ones on your car look great.

Please tell me you'll be anodising them brown?

[andy43]

Shame to put those pistons in an engine - they’d look great under glass as part of a coffee table

[Matthew Poxon]

Update on the build

M16 x 1.5mm pitch x14mm length grub screws delivered and successfully test fitted to the crank. If anyone has a Doug Kiddie Crank and needs grub screws in the future these were purchased from Performance Fasteners Ltd in West Bromwich.
http://www.performancefastenersltd.co.uk/

I visited Power to drop off the throttle bodies so they can be port matched to the heads. The block is now so clean you could eat your dinner off of it.



Dom has put some pictures of his own on Power's Facebook page - looking good

[ChimpOnGas]

That looks amazing Matthew

[phazed]

Looking great Mathew.

[Classic Chim]

We’ll have to use Hethel as a test, can’t see me holding Matthew back now, even balking him isn’t likely to work for long

A V8 sports car with like 8 carbs on it, what’s not to like

[mk1fan]

Classic Chim said:

We’ll have to use Hethel as a test, can’t see me holding Matthew back now, even balking him isn’t likely to work for long

A V8 sports car with like 8 carbs on it, what’s not to like

Hethel?

[phazed]

The Lotus test track.

We did a track day there once, I thought you went to that?

[mk1fan]

Classic Chim said:

We’ll have to use Hethel as a test,

What is happening at Hethel?

[Classic Chim]

mk1fan said:

What is happening at Hethel?

Nothing I know of.
Just a reference to the time I held off Matthew at the great place.
We were having a ball duelling, takes trust and if I got through the man made chicane I could just hold him off at the end of the long straight, he nailed me there too, great craic, can’t see me doing that after this engine gets built was my point

[Matthew Poxon]

Classic Chim said:

Nothing I know of.
Just a reference to the time I held off Matthew at the great place.
We were having a ball duelling, takes trust and if I got through the man made chicane I could just hold him off at the end of the long straight, he nailed me there too, great craic, can’t see me doing that after this engine gets built was my point

Cars were very evenly matched, was great fun. You forgot to mention you trying to put me off with various rude hand gestures.

Still one of my favourite trackday memories

[Classic Chim]

Matthew Poxon said:

Cars were very evenly matched, was great fun. You forgot to mention you trying to put me off with various rude hand gestures.

Still one of my favourite trackday memories

It worked

And mine

[phazed]

Great day, Anthony and I were really steaming around that track, brilliant!

[Classic Chim]

phazed said:

Great day, Anthony and I were really steaming around that track, brilliant!

Flying, I was watching you both through the Esses, on it

[Classic Chim]

Classic Chim said:

Flying, I was watching you both through the Esses, on it

I was ruining the Mickey Mouse chicane, I needed 10 yards head start onto the straight

In your case 20 yards,,, and still allover me by the end of the straight
Great laugh.

[Toma500]

As we say up here HOWAy man whats gaan on

[QBee]

Memories from a day at the home of Lotus a couple of years ago. Quite a number of TVRs were allowed onto a classic car track day and proceeded to boss it, and we all know each other. Peter, with 380 bhp, was the fastest of us, but the rest of us showed that bhp deficiencies didn't matter too much on a twisty circuit. Fond memories of a sunny summer day.

[phazed]

That was, and I use the word in the right context, an epic day!

[Matthew Poxon]

Update on the build, the exhaust manifolds have arrived at Zircotec so there will be an update on these hopefully next month once they have been plasma coated.

From Dom at Powers on his Facebook page earlier today:

[anonymous-user]

Looking good