[Tr-gang] That was nice
Mark J. Bradakis
mjb@autox.team.net
Thu, 20 May 2004 01:01:26 -0600
It's always worse than you thought, right?
Tonight I made it down to the shop for a bit to work on the current project,
a late squaretail Spit. Over the past weekend I dod a quick leakdown check.
First hole was #4 - barely made 20%, a nice breeze out of the intake port.
So the plan was to pull the head and see what was to be seen. I expected the
worst. The first surprise was that the head came off without a fight. Cool.
The second surprise was I found four clean, ridgeless bores and somewhat
shiny 40 over pistons. This motor was rebuilt recently in terms of wear, who
knows when in terms of time.
I cleaned things up a bit, put on a ported, shaved head and could have this
thing running in a few days. I could have a running, streetable Spit in the
near future, even if it is a squaretail!
mjb.