New arrivals

I've had this rule about not just buying stuff and showing it off, preferring to wait until the bits are actually attached to something (this is the car, and more specifically the engine, in case you were wondering), but I'm so close to actually having everything I need to build the bottom end up completely that I can't resist.

Here's what arrived today:

Specifically the stuff in the foreground. From L to R, Flywheel (with distributor drive on top, plus clutch cover bolts and sump bolts, windage tray, sump and oil pickup.

What's that all for? Well, the flywheel is self explanatory, the distributor drive cog - I need that even though I'm not running a distributor to fire the ignition because the distributor drives the oil pump on these engines. The windage tray is to stop the crank whipping in the oil - keeps the oil in the sump away from the crank. The sump itself is extended at the sides and built into it is a set of trapdoors that allow the oil toward the pickup, but not away and the pickup itself sits in the middle of the well at the front of the sump and feeds the oil pump.

Also in the garage: 

You can't see it all here, but there's the crank, rods, pistons, clutch cover, clutch, pulley set, damper (with attached trigger wheel), high volume oil pump, bottom end girdle, camshaft, followers, roller conversion kit and high volume water pump.

I now have everything I need to get a full balance done. The only thing (apart from that work) that's stopping me building the bottom end is finding an early front cover so that I can have a dipstick for the oil.The early 302 front covers have a dipstick hole, the later blocks (like mine) have that hole in the side of the block. That side will be inaccessible on the TVR, and in any case, the dipstick wouldn't go in that front well in the sump. More to come....