YES I am watching discussing ! Merry Christmas to you and your family. Acl make a race series of bearings popular around the world. Like the idea of pumping the air out when priming Kit from down under
Don’t mater to much about the ultimate power, it’s a fantastic piece of engineering and sounds incredible. You done a great job to get it all back together. Very wise I am sure to strip and check it’s all bedding in ok, because of the nature of it
That engine sounds great in the last clip and the red Sport is the bees knees! All the best for a great Christmas and New Year to you and your family Andy, make the most of it with the kids.
Thats going to wheelie! Drove an imp with twin 40's in the seventies! Front end used to float under acceleration! Sounds very sweet, get it in a car!! Phil Whitley, my week this week on RUclips!
Great videos all year. Thanks for taking the time to produce them, in what is obviously a busy life on all fronts. Merry Christmas, and in case you don't post again, Happy New Year. Hoping 2025 is a great one for you and the family.
The 5 bearing blocks are available - albeit expensive - the heads are not. The problem with the heads are that they are unproven in what they can deliver and they are all a bit unique in build and design. There are Mk1’s, production FWH’s and MK2’s - we assume the that MK2’s are the way to go but this is the first time in years that someone has built up an ex-works ‘copy’ and bunged it on a dyno - its not a direct comparison as you’d need to run a fully modded sports head with the same cam profile. The 5 bearing bottom end gives that additional stability for high revs - the (any) power increase will come from the head and addition air flow. If you look at Coventry Climax heads on sale they are £5/6k - complete with valves, cam and carriers - we all love our imps/clans/davs etc - but the market for a new FWH head kit would be limited.
Cheers Andy. Thanks for the hours of entertainment, absolute ⭐ Just a thought Andy. That water pipe, will it work? both ends of that pipe are plumbed into water outlet points; flow?
Andy, thanks for taking the time to post the video tonight. All the best for Christmas. With modern scanners and casting techniques is there not a case for scanning the 5 bearing block and crankshaft, or would it not be eligible for homologation?
If you change the camshaft I assume you'd go for more lift as well as timing, does that mean you'd have to relieve the pistons some more and is there enough meat on the pistons to allow you to do that?
Go on🫵💪 turned that piece of monkey nuts into something decent!! All hail the master. Will Parry get ready to sort a manifold out for the cross flow head 🫵💪😉
Fantastic stuff Andy, have a great Christmas with your family, from down New Zealand.
Great way to spend Christmas Eve. Very good looking little Sunbeam too. All the best for the holidays to you, your family and all the Shrigley-Tubers.
Having 1200 would let you use a bigger cam with less chance of poor bottom end response. Thanks for all your great videos !
I really enjoy this type of video where you're building something quite special. Thanks for sharing.
Excellent Andy. Nice to see Mr Mathews! Have a great Christmas.
YES I am watching discussing ! Merry Christmas to you and your family. Acl make a race series of bearings popular around the world. Like the idea of pumping the air out when priming
Kit from down under
Don’t mater to much about the ultimate power, it’s a fantastic piece of engineering and sounds incredible. You done a great job to get it all back together. Very wise I am sure to strip and check it’s all bedding in ok, because of the nature of it
That engine sounds great in the last clip and the red Sport is the bees knees! All the best for a great Christmas and New Year to you and your family Andy, make the most of it with the kids.
That sounds absolutely magnificent, that last snip-it, so sweet!
Thats going to wheelie! Drove an imp with twin 40's in the seventies! Front end used to float under acceleration! Sounds very sweet, get it in a car!!
Phil Whitley, my week this week on RUclips!
Great TV Andy - All the best for Christmas and enjoy your time with family - cheers
That engine sounds epic. Proper ‘brrrrappp’ from it. Love it.
Merry Christmas to you and all the family, mate.
engine sounds great
Love the roar of the 1200. Have a cracking Christmas and new year Andy
Great videos all year. Thanks for taking the time to produce them, in what is obviously a busy life on all fronts.
Merry Christmas, and in case you don't post again, Happy New Year. Hoping 2025 is a great one for you and the family.
That’s one banging engine, Andy! Merry Christmas to you and your family!
Well done Andy, that will be superb. Have a lovely Christmas and New Year.
What about getting a 5 bearing block and sand cast head scanned up for someone to remanufacture, there would be no shortage of buyers, I'm certain.
The 5 bearing blocks are available - albeit expensive - the heads are not. The problem with the heads are that they are unproven in what they can deliver and they are all a bit unique in build and design. There are Mk1’s, production FWH’s and MK2’s - we assume the that MK2’s are the way to go but this is the first time in years that someone has built up an ex-works ‘copy’ and bunged it on a dyno - its not a direct comparison as you’d need to run a fully modded sports head with the same cam profile. The 5 bearing bottom end gives that additional stability for high revs - the (any) power increase will come from the head and addition air flow. If you look at Coventry Climax heads on sale they are £5/6k - complete with valves, cam and carriers - we all love our imps/clans/davs etc - but the market for a new FWH head kit would be limited.
The best Xmas eve tv ever. Great stuff Andy. Have a great Xmas with your family 👍🏻
Sounds superb
All the best Andy 🍻
Beautiful. I'm building a cooking K series 1.8 for my sprint/hillclimb ZR over xmas, wish me luck!
Thanks Andy. Have a great Christmas. 👍
Spot on !
Cheers Andy. Thanks for the hours of entertainment, absolute ⭐
Just a thought Andy. That water pipe, will it work? both ends of that pipe are plumbed into water outlet points; flow?
Andy, thanks for taking the time to post the video tonight. All the best for Christmas. With modern scanners and casting techniques is there not a case for scanning the 5 bearing block and crankshaft, or would it not be eligible for homologation?
How about a stepped exhaust for the next one for that 10HP more Andy wants. 😂
If you change the camshaft I assume you'd go for more lift as well as timing, does that mean you'd have to relieve the pistons some more and is there enough meat on the pistons to allow you to do that?
🎄🎄🎄🎄🎄
🎅🏻🎅🏻
Go on🫵💪 turned that piece of monkey nuts into something decent!! All hail the master. Will Parry get ready to sort a manifold out for the cross flow head 🫵💪😉