Sunday, 26 August 2012
Paint's on!
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Trying to paint in winter is lousy. It's been cold and rainy for weeks.
I had lined up my mate Andrew, a spray painter of 20 years' experience, to help me paint the frames.
Andrew's a quiet sort and I think he quickly decided that I would just make a horrible mess of the job, so he came over today and put on undercoat, colour and gloss clear topcoat in just over 2 hours. It looks superb.
I'll give it a couple of days to go off properly and then I can start hanging bits back on again!
Back from the machine shop
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The block, head and crank came back from the machine shop last week looking lovely.
I was initially a little shocked at the $5000 bill, made up of $1500 on the head, $1000 for top hat liners, another $1500 on the block itself and around $1000 for the crank, rods and balancing. However when I looked through the invoice I really have got a lot for my money. Everything is clean, straight, balanced and back to proper tolerances.
I decided early on to replace everything else, and I've spent around $2000 on new parts. Around $2500 in labour and I have a $10000 engine.
All things being equal though I should never have to touch the engine again.
