The New Project: Part Deux!

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**njsteve** · #1 11-19-2012, 08:24 PM

The forged H-heam rods arrived today! Everything gets dropped off tomorrow for balancing.

**njsteve** · #2 11-20-2012, 07:48 PM

Picked up the 7F6 cylinder heads today. Nice and shiny on the bottoms. I had them measure the chamber volume and it turns out it is 107cc versus the original 111 cc advertised volume. So it looks like it was resurfaced/milled at the last rebuild 20 years ago. Hopefully this gives me a bit more than the 8.4 to 1 that the original style flat tops give. Maybe 9 to 1?

I also dropped off all the rotating parts and they should be balanced by next week sometime. Then comes the fun part: assembly.

**njsteve** · #3 11-21-2012, 01:55 AM

This evening at the local votech school where I spend my Tuesday nights in the "Intro to Body Work" class, I welded up a bracket to retain the oil pump pickup from falling out of the oil pump. It was easier to do this than brazing the steel pickup to the cast iron body.

Here's what it looked like after I unwrapped it from its protective plastic and masking tape wrapping. (To keep the welding debris out of the screen).

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