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Racing: Engine rebuild 19/07/2020

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This is a work in progress but as the blog is being written at the same time as I am working (for a change), I thought I might as well publish it to make it a live update of sorts. So do pop back in the future to see when I finally give up and set the lot on fire. The " From Road rashed to race " Blog entry very quickly got a bit out of hand so I have removed some detail and made it more of a story. The real bones of any particular job, such as this one, are now in separate blogs which I will link between whenever relevant. This should make it easier to find useful info whilst still getting it all down. This story follows on from another branch of the rebuild where I fantasised about sticking an NC23 engine in the NC29 which you can't do. As a result of this, and with a lack of spares on the market, I was looking at repairing the engine I had. The main issue I had was that the crank appeared to be bent thanks to the previous owners crash damage.  I had the option t