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18th January 2012
ENGINE TRAINING COURSE Hi All, what a nasty time of year. Weather is not pleasant and the bills come in thick and fast....but soon be spring and the start of the new season! Just thought i would let you all know that i am holding an engine building course here in my workshop in february over 4 saturdays. Details are in the special offers section, i will be building a 350ci chevy from bare block to running engine giving instruction on everything you need to know about the parts,the process and usefull information on how to build and tune your engine. It will be heald on 4th,11th/18th/25th of Feb on saturday afternoons. The last one i did was a huge success and have been asked to do another one, there will be more later in the year also.just email me if you are interested with your contact details and i will give you all the info. Things are pretty busy here with engines coming in from all over, just had a pair of supercharged 572ci engines in for full rebuild going in a boat. Also got the 307 olds on the go, parts arrived now and so have the balanced parts for the 400M. So lots to do, paintshop has been steady, got a range rover coming in in feb, and looking at an old Lotus elan on saturday for a full paint. My own 3rd gen camaro was painted over christmas in Kandy Brandy wine and come out great, pictures are in the gallery and on face book. Just painting a 95 camaro convertible in the same colour at the moment, the owner saw my car and wanted the same. I have found a way of doing Kandy paint jobs for not alot more than a std paint colour so if its something your interested in call me for a chat.

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7th December 2011
Well we are getting close to that time of year when the cars get put away and money gets spent on other things! Some of us anyway!! Things here are still busy with lots going on and plenty booked in for the new year. Engine wise i have almost finished the 2 540 strokers for an offshore power boat. They will be put on the dyno very soon so i will give figures at the end. Got an unusual 307ci olds engine which came out of the caprice station wagon we painted recently, she is pretty messy inside but is a good runner so just a fresheh up required. Also have a ford 250ci V8 out of a 1962 pickup, quite unusual. Again on the rarety list is a 400M engine, this has Australian heads on it running flat top pistons so is quite a nice beast. She was raced hard and there is wear in the small end bushes so they are being replaced. She also ran floating pins with ally ends which have made a nice groove in a couple of the bores so going +0.040" to rid of those. The galaxy in the paint shop has come to a halt as the rear quarters we ordered have arrived and are nothing like !!! The front end is almost ready for paint so a bit annoying when this happens. I have got my camaro RS in for a Kandy brandy wine paint job at the moment so pictures will hit the gallery shortly. I have a couple of jenson intercepters and an overfinch range rover booked in for the new year for full paint jobs, so looking forward to doing those. I havent had much feedback on the training course, maybe its time of year? so if not enough interest then i will do it in the new year. I now have a face book page which you can all go on and pass comment..nice ones please! Will post more info on here before xmas.

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23rd November
Its getting cold now folks! time to get the woolies out. Since i last wrote i have built 2 more rover v8's, one for a range rover and the other for a P5 rover. On going at the moment is 2 540 big block strokers for an offshore power boat,a 307ci olds engine for a caprice station wagon thats just been painted here. just come in is an unusual 400M cleveland engine for a pro street anglia van ! Nice bit of kit with all the right bits in it, pictures will be posted shortly. Also had an overfinch range rover in with a broken flex plate, and a ford F250 diesel truck which is a non starter so plenty going on. Pulled the engine out of a pro street challenger today, it has a supercharged 440ci in it currently but going to stroke it to 528ci with Indy heads and overdriven blower ! What a way to make a living ! Pictures will be posted as it progresses. Still holding engine build training course soon so any one interested contact me for info.

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2nd November
Hi everyone, its been a while because i have been on holiday for a couple of weeks in october so catch up was the name of the game when i got back ! I finally got the cobra finished after having to modify the heads to take adjustable pushrods. But running ok now so Geoff will be pleased to get his car back. A few more cars have been finished in the paint shop, the lotus cortina was fully painted and so was a morgan. Pictures are in the gallery,we have almost finished a chevy caprice station wagon which has been put back to its original two tone colours. Its come out really nice and pictures will be added very shortly. Some of you will pleased to know that i am organising another engine building training course for the end of november. I will be building a stroker small block chevy engine with performance heads. All details will be in the special offer section giving dates ect. I am not sure yet if i am doing it over a few evenings in succesion or over a couple of weeks. If anyone is interested in attending this course please email me with your details and i will send you a description of what the course covers. the last one i put on had great feed back and i have been asked to do another one. Just finished two rover v8's,one for a P5 and one for a range rover. pictures will go in the gallery, i am about to start a 305 olds engine and a blown 440 chrysler so back to the grind stone.

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