PROJECTS

I have been building 748 R motors for a few years. I got started sort of by necessity when a Jeff Nash built motor I had bought needed refurbishing and I found out how much it was going to cost! AMS does absolutely perfect work, but I couldn't afford it. I bought two spare motors instead, and it turned out I got another Nash style motor sort of by accident, which unfortunately blew up. I think it had been freshened up by someone who just didn't do the necessary work. Anyway, at that point I had two rather expensive motors that needed to get rebuilt, so I decided to do it myself. Two years later I have now done about four 748 motors, and a few others. This is sort of a hobby, but I do race what I build. And yes, I have now blown up some of the motors I built so it hasn't bee exactly a cheap learning experience, but, I still feel better riding a motor I built than something unknown to me.

I now have developed connections which can completely refurbish rods, cranks, cylinders and heads. I do assembly and make sure it gets done to spec. The last motor I built was a 748RS motor with a crank that had been fully knife-edged and polished, but the crank-pin was scored. I had it weled up, re-ground to spec, and then re-nitrided. I also had the rod ends freshened and installed new big end bearings. All the roller and ball bearings were also replaced. The heads had MBP collets installed, and the pistons were low friction coated with ceramic top and bottom heatshield treatments as well. All transmission and crank shims were checked and adjusted, cam timing was set, and squish was measured.

Here's some pictures of the motor, and another 996 motor that I recently completed.

Just before closing. All the shims have been set and checked.