| Author | Message | ||
     Robert Wort Grand Master Username: robert_wort Post Number: 111 Registered: 12-2004 |
Bill C. What an excellent inclusion you have placed in Praeclarum (page 4451). And what a magnificent piece of machinery too! Congratulations to Stephe Boddice on what must have been a mammoth task in restoring 3CP196. I notice that a new block was manufactured owing to the corrosion of the old one. Was this new block manufactured in your locality and by whom? This would be an interesting story in itself. Well done! | ||
| Bill Coburn Grand Master Username: bill_coburn Post Number: 334 Registered: 4-2003 |
Thank you Robert. I am sure the second block was not manufactured post production. It would probably be easier to rebuild the Taj Mahal. As you will have guessed the quest for another used block was successful. By now you will have heard that blocks for 'S' series cars with vee eight engines are now no longer available so anyone with a cracked/corroded block will have to do what Stephe did - find a replacement. It is a worry. I have an S2. The engine has sat on the floor for five years. I have yet to summon the courage to look inside. | ||
| Robert Wort Prolific User Username: robert_wort Post Number: 110 Registered: 12-2004 |
Thanks Bill, Was the replacement genuine R-R or was it from something else? It would be the devil surely to find a V12 block of P111 dimensions. And of course, where did he find it? | ||
| Stephe Boddice Unregistered guest Posted From: 84.66.69.182 |
Hi there, Robert and Bill. As the saying goes "it's not what you know but who...". I just happened to know somebody who had visited a car breaker and had noticed 2 (yes - two) PIII engine blocks lying in the back of his warehouse. The one block was reasonable but repaired whereas the one I bought was in good condition, having been stripped, cleaned and pressure-tested as A1. Lucky, or what? Stephe Boddice 3CP196 www.boddice.co.uk (Message approved by david_gore) | ||
| Robert Wort Grand Master Username: robert_wort Post Number: 115 Registered: 12-2004 |
Hi Stephe, Luck's not the word for it. That was extremely fortuitous and I'm sure we are all grateful that it got into the right hands. |
