Thanks Darren & Greg.
Spent a little time this week sorting the exhaust system removing old burnt rubber hose and replacing the entire length with stainless. Not happy with the working oil level at the rear (front) of the engine. Seems the crank has spent its entire time smacking itself in the oil. Most likely a cause of the bearing failure due to aeration of the oil. Now looking at doing a partial dry sump system and also heat exchanger conversion to the cooling system.
The two red lines show the min and max set oil levels and the yellow line is the low point of the counterweights and conrods in the sump. I'm somewhat cautious on doing the dry sump and starving the thrust bearing of oil in the process. Any thoughts out there on this?
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I also continued on with spending a lot of time going through and checking the wiring and thankfully so. Initial built wiring on the boat is excellent with all joints soldered and heat shrinked well. I couldn't believe in finding later wiring done to such a poor standard. Would you believe of all things such as the bilge pump was installed with its main supply and earth wires just twisted together and taped up?
Hopefully the engine block machining will be done by next Thursday and I'll be able to make a start at putting it together. Re-jetting and fitting of correct chokes for the DCOE weber is done but I'm still waiting on F2 emulsion tubes. Love these webers and looking forward to some tuning runs to see how she'll perform.