stuff you're doing while at home
our grandson harley who lives with us is home schooled now and today he had some practical work to do. we'd bought him a haynes (as in manuals) build your own v8 engine and we built it today. it's an ohc v8 with twin dizzies and is really quite detailed. you have to assemble pistons to conrods with seperate gudgeon pins onto the crank then fit that into the see through block. the cam lobes have to be fitted individually to the shafts as do the rocker arms. you have to time it all when fitting the cambelt even. the 2 dizzies have to be timed also and have leads with red led's for spark plugs at the ends which when you turn it on (it's run by a motor in the bellhousing) 'spark' at the right time in sequence. the heads and rocker covers are also see through so you can watch everything working. after 4 hours putting it together he was well pleased with himself when he turned it on, it even has a v8 soundtrack from inside the base.
quality time and he's learning something usefull too
:thumbsup:.
neil.
our grandson harley who lives with us is home schooled now and today he had some practical work to do. we'd bought him a haynes (as in manuals) build your own v8 engine and we built it today. it's an ohc v8 with twin dizzies and is really quite detailed. you have to assemble pistons to conrods with seperate gudgeon pins onto the crank then fit that into the see through block. the cam lobes have to be fitted individually to the shafts as do the rocker arms. you have to time it all when fitting the cambelt even. the 2 dizzies have to be timed also and have leads with red led's for spark plugs at the ends which when you turn it on (it's run by a motor in the bellhousing) 'spark' at the right time in sequence. the heads and rocker covers are also see through so you can watch everything working. after 4 hours putting it together he was well pleased with himself when he turned it on, it even has a v8 soundtrack from inside the base.
quality time and he's learning something usefull too
neil.
