Last time the car was on the dyno it showed signs that head gaskets might be marginal.. so as always with this car rather than sitting and thinking about it or risking that there might be a gasket issue and doing more damage... I dropped the car off at TFS racing and Stew removed the engine..
Leaving me with an empty engine bay to clean
I was concerned it might be block related having pushed the engine further than I had previously and with the block only being pinned..
Block is fine and all pinning still in place and deck still flat, but decided it was CDB time.. so another block was shipped to Drew for closed decking like this one
With Marham 30-130 being the next time I was intending using the car in anger we kept the short engine built up so it could be put back together quickly if required..
in the mean time Mahle have agreed to sponsor the new engine and have supplied pistons as sponsorship.. which I cant moan about
With Marham postponed I decided to definitely go ahead with CDB engine and so the previous bottom end Stew has now stripped ready to reuse rods and crank etc
I seem to be taking up a fair bit of space in his engine build room lol
The CDB is currently at SMG/Roland Alsop for machining
If its all back together in time then running in at pod on 24th lol.
in other news a customer kindly had this gift for the car made
Simon