Thread: Project "Left Overs" is back alive !

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Today Dan and I got a lot done. First of all, we went by the machine shop to check on his engine. It is all bored and was in the fixture to align bore it when we got there. It looks great. I looked for a name on the align boring machine and I think it said Renegade. or something like that. I could be mistaken, but I know it started with an R. He says it should be done next week, which brings up a question. Should we have everything balanced? He wants only $ 200 more to do that, and the only reason we are not jumping on having it done is that the engine ran smooth before, and it will probably never see over 3500 rpms on the street. What do you experts think?

Then we spent the rest of the day working on my rpu frame. We had to do a little truing up to get the two rails exactly the same shape and same length, but we got that taken care of. Then we jigged it up and cut the front crossmember on a mitered cut and have that ready to weld in tomorrow. It's starting to look like a frame, and is getting VERY HEAVY ! 2 x 4 x 3/16 wall sure is heavier than 2 x 3, but It will never flex, that's for sure. With 700 pounds of Olds engine up front I figure it won't hurt to overbuild it.

Here are some pictures of it in the bandsaw for trimming and then jigged up. By tomorrow night we should have the front and rear crossmembers welded in.

Don

Yes Don definitly get it balanced, it makes the world of difference