I do not know,
But I suppose rounding at the 1 & 4 "pockets" is not very much in street
use (positive or negative) - anyway, when not disturbing inlet channels
from all their way from carbs to valves. Only smoothening the area,
which no more has that ring, that dropped to waste water channel when
rebuilding the engine.
BTW, I have managed 17 summers with that old and "dull" 1600 block (a
super Minx, as someone of you told me). Now I have to build an "engine
of my own". No oil pressure left, but still running quite smoothly.
I got a factory spares engine (blanco serial number!) but could not get
it out from a shed before snow fell. Now I found a Humber engine, 150
euros, with manifolds and generator, should be lately rebuild, but as we
all know, heaven only knows if it truely is, and even then - heavenly
trues are not 100% sure.
But has anyone collected a "Rootes rebuild bible", let us say, collected
comments of engine rebuild in/from the net? It could help to decide,
which components are lethal. In US you don't have engines etc, in
European continent we have some, and in Britain they use them as main
raw material in their cast-iron recyclening.
#auri Lehtinen #orenzo Pamfletti
Toimittaja, insinvvri journalist, engineer
Helsinki, Finland
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