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Real progress Mike!

Is CLM 2020 the target completion date

Nice work BTW

That welding belongs in the Louvre

Ian Donkin wrote:Real progress Mike!

Is CLM 2020 the target completion date

Nice work BTW

Sharp intake of breath - "too early to say yet mate"

Thanks Ian, well it's going to be ready when it's ready, that's the only way I can think about it at the moment, although the good news is the Carrillo rods turned up yesterday so the bottom end my start going together this weekend, maybe.......

Ian Donkin wrote:Is CLM 2020 the target completion date

Leave him alone. You can't rush these things.

I've got quite a few special bits for the box, apart from the spray bars and pump gears which I've had made, and oil pipe take off housing which is being cast, I've aquired a pair of RSR selector shafts which are a bit special.

The shaft is threaded where the fork bolts on, so as once it's set up the fork cannot move on the shaft. Again all the parts have been refinished ready for assembly.

Mike wrote:good news is the Carrillo rods turned up yesterday

Yey

I'm so looking forward to seeing this one finished - the effort and detail is way beyond the comprehension of most of us and you clearly have the patience of a saint.

More stunning attention to detail on the gearbox too

Mike wrote: One of the weak links in the 915 box when used for racing and high hp is the splines on the input shaft, the end bits which hold the gear sets on the shaft tend to break off, so this is the modification to prevent that.

I thought that the later 915 'box was stronger in this area.
Most 'ordinary' people would have just used a later shaft.
There is nothing ordinary about you, or this car though
It will be superb when it is done, very inspirational.

Thanks again Ian, when I said maybe the bottom end would start going together this weekend I was of course forgetting it's a bank holiday, engine builders away

Hi tea boy, you're right, you could use an SC shaft, still needs modifying on the end though, but this is how they did it at the time.

cheers, Mike

The conrod set, all matching sequence numbered and ready for the build.....

Love the photographs - especially the first one ...

thanks Andy, considering they are supposed to be perfectly balanced, it wasn't easy making them stand up like that

Go on then - is there any special spec on the rods Mike - they're carillo but any special material or special finishing?

Who does all the refinishing work?

Will, Neil Bainbridge at BS Motorsport can get that sort of thing done for you, mention my car and DDK.
http://www.bsmotorsport.co.uk/