The Nomates engine build thread!

I'll Try and get 9 pages, and the only thing done so far is cleaned the case!

When i picked it up from Steve



Bit manky but fairly tidy



After the first wash in the tank. high pressure chemical sprayed at 85 degrees!



After being vapour blasted, back to the tank again for a rinse, that vapour blasting fucking hurts your arms!



Finally back in the van for delivery to the chubby birthday boy!



















And yes, I know i missed a bit!

lol ....this thread could take a while ....cheers dude

Hmm, when you ready to do another Al???

Nice however I am confused!!

Whos is building the engine? Al pics but title nomates??

al should be club engine builder

Gungemyster wrote:

Nice however I am confused!!

Whos is building the engine? Al pics but title nomates??

Steve building, I am asissting!

Right ,some progress has now been made , all the studs have been removed from the case ,and replaced with helicoils ,this will make removing the fan for instance a 2 minuet job rather than a few hours (well with twin carbs it will ,which is what i'm gonna be running) ....the oil galleries have all been drilled and tapped ntp and plugged off ,so a good cleaning of the oil ways can now begin , and the crank ,clutch ,flywheel and bottom pulley have been sent off for balancing ,and the rods weighed end to end .....

One major draw back with the crank is that the face where the flywheel bolts to unfortunately runs out by 2-3 thou .....this means all 8 dowels will need removing the face machiened true again and new dowels fitted ......about 4hrs work ,which is about £200 extra OUCH ....but if its gonna get built ,it gonna be done well .....I can't buy a new crank as the bearings have been bought for this one and they were over £200 so I'm going to stick with what I have ,to be honest I'm so glad they spotted it as it shows they are doing a great job !!

because of this it won't be ready for a christmas build gutted

P.S ......the rear towbar components have been shot blasted ,and powder coated gloss black ,and the front and rear bumpers are now in a high gloss finish ,looks loads better

nomates wrote:

P.S ......the rear towbar components have been shot blasted ,and powder coated gloss black ,and the front and rear bumpers are now in a high gloss finish ,looks loads better

PICS!! you mofo!!

when i got time dude ......sometime in jan .....lol

crank finally came back from balancing ....rods weighed end to end ....and new small end bushes fitted and honed ....


tonight I fitted the no 3 bearing ,cam timing gear...race spacer ,distributor drive and the cir clip
...first I heated them up in oil ,then fitted them ......so it has BEGUN .....LOL







at first I was worried that the bid end bearing on no3 ....didn't fit properly ....as the hole to allow the oil to go through wasn't in line .....I phoned big al ,and he didn't know either ......however I think I work it out by myself .....as the oil ways in the crank are drilled at an angle ,the hole is better off being slightly out ....if that makes sense

looking good, can wait to see this in the frid

Don't think 'her indoors' would like me doing that in the kitchen.

Although I did the crank/bearing and gears job in the kitchen to a flat I had in the 1980's, up in Manchester. We weren't together then.

did you add some paprika to the oil first?

it was garlic olive oil ....lol

vwroadster wrote:

Don't think 'her indoors' would like me doing that in the kitchen.

Although I did the crank/bearing and gears job in the kitchen to a flat I had in the 1980's, up in Manchester. We weren't together then.

i've got a lambretta in the lounge dude ......after that .....anythings good to go ...lol

joker 67 wrote:

looking good, can wait to see this in the frid

I'm gonna rip it to bits dude ......lol ,can't wait either

well you did say that if it didn't sell you were gonna stick a big motor up it's arse!!

looking forward to it