Flaminia engine rebuild

[lancianut666]

Word on the street is that the liners are all proud of the block so a full rebore is on the cards. The crank is OK so just needs the oil way plugs taking out and the crank cleaned out, the heads just need a skim (30 minute job apparently) The engine man tells me he will need the new pistons when he has done the rebore as they will leave a couple of thou to hone out to make a nice snug fit for those new pistons...fingers crossed sometime next week I will be ordering some new pistons.
Clarkey
ps My mate Terry wants me to lash out over £800 on a spot welder as he thinks we will be spending all this year welding old Lancias up.

[Dave Gee]

 I have a spot welder cannot remember using it on a Lancia only in the 1970 when working on minis.
 On my Lancias I tend to use a good mig welder withe a spot welding function and an oxyacetylene set supplied by
 Hobby weld as you only pay for the gas. Hope this helps

  Dave
 

[lancianut666]

Thanks for the tips on the welding Dave...Terry will be gutted! On the engine front the pistons have been ordered and the engine man said that it should be all done back end of next week....Hmm...we'll see
Clarkey

[lancianut666]

Pistons should be here on Thursday.
Clarkey

[lancianut666]

Hi all
Top marks to Cavalitto and DHL as the pistons arrived this morning. Dropped them off at the engine man and he is talking about next Tuesday. Watch this space.
Clarkey