When I built the last one I took the new overbore pistons, old rods,
block, crank & flywheel to a machine shop in south San Antonio that had
a good rep in the performance fraternity of south TX. Those guys knew
just what I wanted. I was surprised that the rods didn't need
re-sizing. The rods were well matched in weights; after all, they were
a set in a apparently factory-built 18GB engine. So I got the block
boiled out and bored (didn't need line-boring) to match the pistons, new
cam bearings, re-surface the flywheel and "balance the mess." :-) I made
several trips down there during this process, a 150 mile round trip,
with stop-offs for Tex-Mex food, etc. Took everything home and started
putting it all together. I had a great time during this project and it
worked out well.
BTW, I got most of my parts from George Merryweather of Classic
Restorations, a Moss Motors drop shipper. He had great prices! I knew
him from NAMGBR, met him at the annual MG GoF at Salado, TX. Anybody
remember him? I wonder how he's getting along.
CR
On 8/19/2013 9:10 PM, Richard Ewald wrote:
> for what's it worth, on one B engine I built the piston and rod assemblies
> were massively out of balance when the machine shop went to balance them.
> Invest in a scale and match the rods and pistons to get all the weights as
> close as possible, or send the whole mess out and get it balanced.
> Rick
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