Now that I finally have collated all the parts associated with the new engine fit i can remove it for the exhaust make up.

The local company who are going to be doing this work are an amazing set of engineers who support a whole range of enthusiasts and industry covering classic cars as well as manufacturing incredible items such as Spitfire and Hurricane exhaust stacks !

The assembled parts include:

• Exhaust kit (Czech supplied) with straight tubes, O ring angle rings, springs and silencer box
• Lightweight oil can that fits very snugly between the rear of the engine and the firewall
• The large (French sourced) water radiator – this will mount on support brackets underslung under the main body of the engine
• A much smaller (than previous) oil cooler – actually found someone in UK to supply this ! And the the support arms that will place this right behind the front cowl ‘mouth’ intake

To make it easier for the engineering company to work on things (and they originally suggested perhaps taking the aircraft to them), I decided to make a cradle for the engine to mount in, and try to represent Firewall forward.

This should give them the body line as well as lots of room to work as they assemble the parts in situ and bracket up.

At some point, and now with ready access to the rear of the engine, I can look to heat up the water pump mounting bolts and feed pipes and realign 2 of the pipe exits so that the rubber coolant tubes miss the engine mount bolts.