Well it been awhile since I posted anything, have been a little busy with a change of jobs, Christmas, new year hangover, etc. l have found a great machinist. 2.8 liter Block, heads, crank, and con rods have all checked out on the good side. Sourced some forged piston and rings for what will be a .030 over bore with a 9to1 compression. As I have had very little luck with finding a set of connecting rods I will start grinding stock rods within the next couple of days and then send back to machinist for shoot penning. Still discussing with machinist on how to grind crank, once that is determined then will complete that and get it shoot peened. In the mean time will de-bur the block. and Once pistons arrive back to the machinist for indexing, honing, boring, and decking.
Still looking for an Offy 4 barrel intake manifold. I have been put on waiting list for one at Racer Walsh, talking with a gentlemen there Offenhauser is approx 2 mouth away from manufacturing another batch. If anyone out there has one for sale please let me know as I would like to get on with porting the heads now that I have a nice looking set of headers from DanR. Heads will be going in shortly to have valves sizes rework for a set of 2.9 valves, and plugging and then tapping for additional bolting for headers. I have made contact with Tom Morana racing for a set of roller rockers just waiting on availability. I also saw on his web site that he makes a intake manifold for the 4.0 liter that allows use of 4 barrel carb and distributor.