Sorry I haven't been around much lately with my schedule and all, but I wanted to give you an update on what's been happening with my build-up.
GOOD NEWS:
Got it all together finally after days and months of assembly, tweaking this, lining up that, etc.
BAD NEWS:
All pumped to hear that badboy fire up and 8 revolutions into cranking the engine over she locked solidly.
hmy: After a little checking I figured out that I could turn the engine backwards and forward one whole revolution,
not good. Means only one thing, something is in a cylinder that shouldn't be there. After removing the sparkplugs I find an unused exhaust stud had fallen into the cylinder (problably through a sparkplug hole). Don't ask how it got in there, 'cause if I knew when it fell in there, I could also tell you I got it out before cranking it over. :headache: Next step was to check for leakage from that cylinder. Applied air to the cylinder with both cams positioned so the valves would be closed.
Air coming out of the exhaust pipe. Pull the head off to find the piston beat to shit, and the head damaged bad enough to mushroom out the valve seat and keep the exhaust valve from fully closing. How much worse could it get you ask? Further inspection reveals a small crack in the cylinder wall. :cry:
GOOD NEWS:
My insurance company finally agreed to cover it under my comprehensive coverage due to it being accidental damage. They even gave me $$$ to cover my labor to replace the engine.
BAD NEWS:
Now I get to wait another 2 months while Magnus builds me another engine. :uh: