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Wow! Looking really good! Can't wait to see how your crankshaft turns out. I'm getting closer to starting mine, unfortunately for me I don't have the luxuries of a CNC. I'm thinking about mounting my Sherline lathe on the table of my Bridgeport mill and ruffling it out with a end mill. Good...

Chuck, As far as the radiator construction, All of the parts were a nice interference fit, I just used green Loctite seal retainer. I'm crossing my fingers that it won't leak. The tumbling media I use is small cone shaped porcelain with a cheap Harbor Freight rock tumbler along with a little...

Here you go Steve, there's really nothing to it. Drill a 3/16" hole and mill the sides, it worked like a charm.

Here's some pictures of the distributor cap in progress.

And the distributor shaft,

The gear cover was made on the rotary table and then tumbled in my rock tumbler to remove all the ruff edges.

Sorry guys, No pictures of it going together. Thanks for this nice comments. Here's how the fins were made.

Time to catch up on some of my progress.

Thanks for the nice comments on the base! Started turning the cam shaft.

Thanks for all of the nice comments, For some reason I had an itch to start on the base for this engine. I wanted something with some weight so its not going to want to leave the table while its running. I thought about a nice piece of thick polished marble or polished granite, but I had no...

Connecting Rods are done,

Finished the water pump, Very pleased how well this little pump works.

Started work on the water pump, third time was a charm,

Finished valve cover,

So here is another Question, Why would someone pick a 20deg pitch angle set of gears over a 14.5deg pitch angle? Does one run smothier than the other? What is the difference? Thanks for your help.

Started work on the head,

Engine mounts,

Last of the block cutting,

pushrod cover

More shaping on the block.