The Aftermath and a new year

16th February 2009

The new year is here and its taken me a month to recover from the expense and Christmas fun and frivolities. I haven't done much in the garage over the last month as the snow, rain and generally crap weather has kept me inside.

My new engine is still in bits and is slowly taking up much more space in the corner of my living room in boxes. In January I picked up a new Crankshaft a Empi 78mm forged balanced crank. This came from Stateside Tuning along with the CB H-Beam 5.5 professional Rods . I wass not a great fan of Empi like most enthusiasts as they tend to have made some bad marketing choices. I came by the Empi Crankshaft after a great deal of discussion. It was pointed out to me that a good reason that some Crank suppliers used nitriding to put a hard coating on a crank when the material it was made from was not as hard as it could be. This in realiy seems very obvious and as the engine builder the information came from also balanced cranks I could see his reasoning as if the Nitride was only only a few micrions thick then it would be machined off very easily.

The CB H-Beam rods are just to good to be true they are exceptionally well made and seem to be well balanced from the box.

I have also been busy trying to track down other engine parts and have been doings some research on getting my Crankcase shuttle pinned.