Engine and other misc updates

Mid-May, the engine is still at the builder, unfortunately not a ton of progress on that front.  I did get all the parts for the rebuilt and it is expected that he will start on the engine in about 3 weeks.  It’s cleaned and disasembled, just needs to be bored, honed and reassembled.  Keeping the stock crank shaft, going for a street port, angled valve job and switching the rods (stretched) and pistons to forged.  Typical bottom end rebuilt.  Sticking with the stock cam shaft too, since it’s pretty much pancake flat and I don’t want to change the power band until I’m sure everything else on the car is the way I need it.

Piston:

I’m going to be ordering a new steering pinion for the Woodward rack I’m using.  FrankenMini wasn’t a street car, so the lightening quick rack, 2.62″ per turn, wasn’t too hard to handle.  Brutus is a completely different beast and it only took one slow drive down the road to see the rack was “white knuckle” quick.  Dropping it down to a 2.09″ per turn which is still ripping fast, but considerably slower than what I have now.  Benefit of these Woodward racks is I can quickly change out the ratio with simple hand tools.

Another update coming when the engine is done.