Alex's ' Mighty White ' 63

When Alex's car was finished ( pic's in April blog archives ) , a rattle that the engine had on start up , worse when from cold , really started to bother me . We drove the car for a couple of hundred miles , but it was getting worse .

Alex did want to race the car , but I really wasn't happy about this noise , it would go away after 4 or 5 seconds , but I really didn't like the sound of it .

So I decided that rather than risk catastrophic and very expensive damage , I would check it out .

And Iwas very glad I did , I did think it sounded like lifter rattle , and boy was one of the lifter bores absolutely knackered . I've never seen one this bad , and can't believe the rattle wasn't worse .

So , unfortunately an engine rebuild with a new case was carried out . At the same time , the cam was changed from an FK8 to an FK10 , and the compression was raised from 9 to 1 , up to 10.1 to 1 . Some combustion chamber work was also carried out .

The engine is now back in the car , with 350 miles on it so far . More tuning to be done ( larger venturies ) , when the car gets past 500 miles .