Assembled the left hand cylinder bank, carburetor and velocity stack. Assembled the magnetos and glued them to the rear of the engine. I drilled the holes in the spark plug wire support tube a bit deeper to make it easier to add the spark plug wires. Added the oil filler neck and the front oil drain lines; will get the rear oil drain lines later (they are on the inside of the vee). Added the 4 outboard spark plug wires to the left hand cylinder bank.
Adding the spark plug wires was a bit painful as the holes that were drilled in the ends of the spark plugs are not my best work (some are OK but some are not that straight and consequently are open on part of the circumference). To make sure all of the spark plug wires are adequately attached to the plug ends, the wire is occasionally wrapped around the end and then glued in place (a spot of white paint will be used to cover up this way of attaching the wires).
Brittania metal is difficult to drill, especially the smaller holes. I tried to avoid using the small Proxxon electric drill as much as possible to keep 'goofs' down to a minimum (it was needed for some holes, suchas those in the spark plug wire support tube, in order to get them deep enough). I used the pin drill with a 1.2 mm bit for the small holes; increasing to 1.6 mm to increase the diameter (which worked for all of the location pins). In a couple of instances I couldn't get the location hole deep enough without most likely doing damage to area being drilled; in these cases I filed down the locator pins so everything fit.
Holding the left hand cylinder bank, carburetor and velocity stack in place while the epoxy set.
Left hand cylinder bank, carburetor & velocity stack in place on the engine.
Magnetos in place on the rear of the engine.
Oil filler and front oil drain lines in place.
Left hand outboard spark plug wires in place. (Some white paint will be added to hide those wire ends that couldn't be attached into the holes in the plug ends.
