[blykins]

I've about got Darrell's engine finished up. Waiting on the valve covers to show up and it's done.

Things go slowly sometimes. It's not how we like for it to go, and trust me, I want to move product in a timely basis. However, if anyone knew the amount of time and concentration that goes into doing one of these, plus the collaboration of manpower, there would be a little time "fluffing".

On this particular build, I was measuring the crank and saw up to .0006" out-of-round on some journals, and some intolerable amount of taper on some others. This means that the crank has to go to the crank grinder. This means that you have to get the crank into their queue...which means waiting.

Had the block machined then went to measure piston/cylinder clearance and saw that I didn't have enough, because the pistons were a tad (1/2 thou) oversized. Wasn't anyone's fault, just a stacking of tolerances and needed to be corrected.

I've got some pictures to upload of this one going together. I'll try to post them a bit later. I've already emailed them to Darrell for a progress report, but can post them here publicly too.

It's also nice to try to time the engine delivery with the car completion. It's really not good for engines to sit around doing nothing and I've had customers who have jumped up and down to get their engines *immediately* then 3 years later their projects are not complete. No lie.