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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_xYS76sGGws another video early on . i dont think i even had rings on it at this stage. it was just to see if everthing went round n round . it sort of did . things rubbed in a few places. the oil was a bit shiney but a bit of die grinding in a few places gave it...

Few photos of drawings right from the start. Double overhead cam one day, single overhead cam the next. It's all on A4 drawn full size, you can scale it down if you want to. This is all I worked with for the whole job, the only drawing that is not here is the one where I made the distributor but...

Been away folks but im back onto it again :). here is some photos of progress along the way. Earlier on with the 4 carbies, also you can see the distributor coming together. Other end of the engine sorting out cam timing. notice the drill chuck for easy turning of the cams. The gear on the...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tIYffpqkSIY This is early on. Probably it's first or second run as you will notice with the four carbies, I couldn't get it to run very nice. It runs a hell of a lot better with the one. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jskLJJafrqw&feature=related Hasn't even got...

Starting work on the heads with a form tool putting the combustion chamber in. Set up in the drill on an angle to do the valve ports and guides. Then I turned each head over to do the other side of the valve guide also did the spark plug while it was this way. It was done with a slugger...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TX1ecEVVp8s This is a video I found on my phone recently of the valve springs being made. Notice that they are left hand thread. I wasn't working into the chuck, I was working away from the chuck.

i started on this project at easter this year . i have been doing a couple of hours on it just about every day. i was happy when the first lot of noise came out of it . that was early sept. originally i put 4 wipper snipper carbys from the dump on it but it ran terrible. thats when i made the...

This is the barrels being made. Started with the aluminium 80mm diameter. Cut it into pieces and bored a hole through it and put some cooling fins in with my 3mm parting tool. (my only parting tool) 3mm gap and 3mm fin, pretty simple with the digital readout. the spaces were so accurate the...

ok folks now we have the crank shaft. as you can see in the photo below, i had to modify my pipe bender to use it as a press, i drilled an extra hole right in the centre above the jack. (were the boring bar is going through) which was used to press the crank shaft together...

here you can see i am trying to get the rockers and cam to work together. on the left hand bank of cylinders the inlet cam lobes do their work on the top side of the rockers and the exhaust cam lobe pushes the rocker from the bottom. and on the other bank of cylinders the inlet cam lobe pushes...

the valves. i machined hex off bolt then end for ended it in chuck and centre drilled. pictures show valve head machined first and along stem for a bit while gripped by the thread end. the head of the valve could then be held in the grooves of the jaws ( for stability ) and machined rest of the...

That should keep every one interested for a while, there is heaps more to come. heads, barrels, cams, rockers, distributor, pistons, rings and the crank. more comments and questions PLEASE i am enjoying this part of it as much as i did building the engine ;D

you will notice the jaws are offset in this picture, it was the easiest and quickest way i could mass produce all these pieces. and they are all very close to being the same (nobody is perfect) con rods being cut out of 10mm alluminum flat bar, no special tensile strength just off the shelf...

here i have the valves all finished and the collets all ready to go (just need lapping in) I went to the local spring works and purchased 3 metres of spring steel and as you can see in the picture i have drilled a hole in an old bolt that was a bit smaller in diameter than the id of the...

This was an easy way for me to make valves, they are already half built, hitensile and a buck each at the local hard ware.