We show progress with the Lotus twin cam engine build. All is going well but we discover something that surprises us, how could they put the engine back together like this before?
We show progress with the Lotus twin cam engine build. All is going well but we discover something that surprises us, how could they put the engine back together like this before?
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Looks like someone decided to do a D I Y head skim using a DA sander, seen so many wobbly heads with gouges out of the face over the yrs and the D I Y guy is the usual culprit
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The front of engine should have been welded up, and re surfaced to remove the discrepancy! That is how a machinist would remedy that issue, before assembly!
Bit disappointed that you haven't got some soft packing in the lathe chuck jaws so you don't damage the piston.
Marine Tex it! LOL Good to see the craftsmanship continues with these great engines. Great stuff!
I'm giving away words free today. You can have 'taken' to replace the awkward mis-use of 'took'.
Really enjoyed this ! I had a Lotus twincam many moons ago and wished it was still in my garage.
I`ve had a TC Engine over pounds 16.000 building costs from Eamon Swords Lotus Club England and later we find out as we have had problems in driving, the engine has had 4 different pistons from several manufactors inside.
Another street TC engins new build has had no rear crankshaft seal build in from this "engine specialist" as the car was on the street and looses oil. … So we have to bring both engines to another shop in Leverkusen Germany who
fixed them right. Costs EUR 9.000.– incl. material for the steel crank engine with the wrong pistons!!! Eamon never was seen!!!!
Grinding the top of valves for clearance is normal. Who has all the sets of shims.
All you videos are disaster stories. Still, that's the side of cars us real mechanics see.
I can tell you haven't done a Twincam before as you can't fit the ARP head bolts with the front timing chain slider in place as the head won't go down straight.
The verb TO COPE comes in various flavours. Cheers.
Thousandths is such a long and exhausting word to enunciate.
errr, bad engineering holding the piston in hard jaws , , always use soft jaws machined to fit the dia, but this isn't the the best way to machine a piston , there is another far superior method , but it would take to long to explain here , if you would like to know you can contact me or pm
CONGRATULATIONS!!!
Getting married, oh no….. You do realise that will result in you only having relations "doggy style"………….. When you sit up and beg……… and she rolls over and plays dead…..
WHY does EVERYONE use one hand to hold their cameras? Why doesn't everyone wear their camera on a head band?
Not to pick to fine a line but the part of the lathe you were adjusting is called the compound.
Hey a good idea is to put a wrap of wide masking tape around the piston where the lathe jaws will contact so you don't run the risk of scoring the piston.
I do like your videos BUT Suggest you do not run your finger round the machined edge even after using wet & dry to remove the burrs. One day you'll slice your finger leaving metal splinters in your skin.
Idiot. Every seven years, just go up to a woman that you absolutely hate and give her your money and your house. It would be cheaper. However, I lucked out. Forty nine years, three months, and four days later she left me. Of all that I put her through in aviation, it was cancer that caused her to leave me. I hope that you have the fairytale marriage that we had. We did not live happily ever after. But how we lived!! We have the great-grandkids to carry on.
Initially subscribed but unsubbed after watching this (can't cope with the handheld camera work – plays havoc with my motion sickness)….
Glad Ifound your channel rebuilding a lotus twin cam from a jensen.