Has anyone built the Black Widow engine from castings?
PamelaI have one of the first sets of casting I got from Ken eons ago..... also some of the drawings. Aquired more from another source..... going thru them now with Gary Martin who now offers the castings.....
It is a soon to be done project after a few others get finished..... time to be done with all of them. Just finished a red wing air cooled... runs really good.
Pamela
Was told that it was basically copied from the challenger..... currently looking for a casting set and/or prints. Everything will be gone thru with a fine toothed comb... will probably contact Dwight at some point... haven't heard from him in way to long.Pamela
I would love to know if you actually have the complete drawings?
I spoke with both Mr Remus and Mr Giles and they are still searching to see if they can find the original drawings.
The gentleman they hired to do the CAD did them with a lot of errors. I can tell you before you machine the heads using the drawings, the combustion chambers do not line up with the bores. That is about as far I have gotten with redrawing everything as I have just been touching them here and there. Missing information on the lifters and distributor drive, pushrods etc.
Maybe you have those drawings?
Mark
SteveThis is a Peewee V4 situation right here. When I tried to build it I had the same problems with missing information. If you ever want to finish this engine you need to sit down and design what's missing. Make the changes so the errors are fixed. Then move forward and build it. If you are waiting on others to do those things you may never get a solution. Someone needs to take the bull by the horns and model this thing, fill in the blanks, and produce a working set of drawings. I've done it 3 times for the Peewee, Pacifier, and Little Demon. If you want something cool you have to work for it. I don't have the drawings so I can't help but if I did, I would.
Unfortunately that's not enough. Someone with the castings in hand will need to do the work. While the models are being created they need to be checked against the casting to be sure that part can come from that casting.Steve
What is your email? I will scan them when I get home and send them to you. They are useless right now so I doubt Martin who sells the castings will have any objection to someone fixing all the errors and actually producing a set of working drawings.
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