Hey Todd
I got a fair bit of time on the engines, it's the winter (almost) up here and all nice cars are now in storage and the projects are underway. For the most part I have at least a couple of months.
This will be my third 911 'assembly job'.
Each time all of the machining has already been done. The first one I ever did was in the early 90's, for a chap that started one and then chickened out and got me to put it togeter. I can't remember if it was a 2 or a 2.2L. The second was for a auto painter, it was a 2.4L out of a '73. He had waited 3 years for some alcoholic German mechanic to put his engine back together. He was so happy to get his 911 back, that he did a primo base/clear body and paint job on one of my bugs. Again this one is suppost to have all the machining done , I just have to put it together. He's suppost to bring it over next weekend.
With these engines once you get over the 'Oh my god, its a 911!!" factor, they are remarkably simiular to the VW engines. Yes the cams are intimadating, but not too bad, you just take your time. Oh yeh, I needed the factory (sucked, but required) and a Haynes manual to figure it out. One day, I would like to do one of the bigger (later) sixes. (maybe for my 914, Hmmm, I wish)
One interesting fact is the intermediate shaft (sits the same as a cam on a T1 & 4, drives the cam chains) uses bug cam bearings, with the two copper coated double thrusts. These are the ones that Gene Berg sold for big bucks! (sorry but they are NLA with the copper coating, damn.) Totally the same, but they were short two small bearing halfs.
It will be a little while before I get to the 914 heads, but I will let you know how I make out. I have 8 heads, plus a couple of bus heads layed out on my bench in a row, looks too cool!
Mark
