after a quick trip up to bradford in my little rental Corsa the race engine is safely back in the bus, albeit sat on the load bed rather than bolted into the engine bay.
Martin taylor at Taylor MAchine services had got it all ready to pick up, and got the dyno run and mapping done too.

the damage from december’s little escapade on the M4 ended up like this

damaged scat 84mm procomp crank – replace
damaged scat H beam Con Rods – replace
damaged swivel foot adjusters on rockers – replace with 1.4:1 rockers
damaged berg oil pump – machine face and replace

so the engine is back same as before apart from replacing the 1.25:1 rockers with 1.4:1 ratio rockers.
It would appear that CustomSpeedParts in Germany have charged my credit card for the porsche fan conversion kit (ordered iin January! only 3 months late) so hopefully it’ll actually ship sometime soon. so i can bolt it in like it is or take the gamble and strip off the cooling tin and dynamo and plumb in the extra oil cooler to the bus (the fan conversion on the engine remove the standard oil cooler and needs an additional external one…

decisions, decisions….

BTW it’s good to be back writing after a long break with the weblog not playing properly. a big thankyou to jake at scooterblog for the fix. check out scooterblog, jake is travelling from bristol to the greek island on, you guessed it, scooter and is weblogging his way there from his mobile phone…. v cool!