Archive for September, 2008

More Engine Work

Monday, September 8th, 2008

Unfortunately I only ended up getting a single day this weekend on the engine, but I suppose thats life! First up was to build up the crank. Again all this is like normal, and the rod bolts seemed pretty consistent, which is a relief!!! There are two methods of tightening rod bolts. You can either just do them up to a specific torque, or you can stretch them a certain amount. Stretching them gives a more accurate result, but takes a bot longer as you have to measure them before, and then a few times whilst tightening them up, but I decided to use the stretch method as it gives a better result.

So after much measuring the small incremental torque adjustments the crank was built up.

Built Up Crank

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Second Diff

Saturday, September 6th, 2008

OK OK, so I am not actually running a second diff! But what I am doing, while I am still fabricating the car and its not too much bother to add an extra bracket here or there, is to allow for the installation of a different Diff.

Oil Enclosure Mounted To Diff (more…)