Right now my buddy Marc has my rear ex rigger (a swedish T-Rex) for painting and doing some glassworking on the cowl. This rigger will be powered by an engine what Scott built for me; a RCMK rear ex with J&G topend. Hope to run it in afew weeks...
In the meantime I found some time to work on my Warpath rigger what Marc Levac built for me.
And for this Warpath rigger I want to use my own engine. Yesterday I assembled it so it is ready for mounting.

After some really good talks to Carlo last year at the GasNats I started with the work on the transfers, transfer bridges and eyebrows. This was a very time consumpting process, especially sanding the transfers...







And after reading Dennys (Hot Rods) thread about grinding the head bottom with a selfmade tool I also tried this step to my engine.



I ported the exhaust side to 183°.





The intake port is widened and I cut the piston skirt on the intake side to 153°



Of course the piston is lightened on the inside and I reduced the diameter of the piston on the top.

The carb is one of my own modified WT257. I use a CC aluminium intake isolator and matched it to the intake port.



The case a billet case what is produced by my buddy Sebastian. He is an artist at the CNC machine. I just matched the the case to the cylinder.
I use a RCMK stroker crank and setup the squish to 0.4mm (0.015'') by using a 1mm (0.04'') copper gasket.



So this is what I ended up...

Nice work Andre! I'm sure she will be a screamer! Keep us posted.

Andre,
You have been practicing some the port work looks very nice indeed !
Yea about time that J&G VII RX got run .... done almost 2 years ago ( May 2010 )

Just pokin fun at you buddy

The combination of excellent photography accompanied by explanations
is first class!

What type camera did you take those photos with? Either the camera or some
way you are using it (maybe both) makes the metal details show very well.
Let us in on your secret.

Marc,
thanks. Process on the Warpath is slow but I am on a good way. Hope the engine will do what I hope...

Scott,
thanks my friend. I can hear you... Wished tha last 2 years had more time for me and not for work. But it came out the other way... But with lots of work and also having family, hobby was often in the background.
And I also changed my decision about running your engine in the LRX rigger. I have seen some of them here and it was not that what I expected. So it also need some time before finding another rigger for an rear ex engine. Now the rigger is mostly finished, just need some minor works and of course some paint...

Whitefish,
thanks for the kind words. Camera was nothing special; a simple Panasonic Lumix TZ-7 from my wife... the little digi cams are not so good for action or landscape, but for macro pics they are awesome!

Andre,
Have no doubts on how well it will run once you do so
Had done one just like it for myself that was in the exotic Fire Fighter rigger that was sold to a fellow I think was in Sweden. He E-mailed me last spring/summer 2011 about the NAGIVA ( think Spelled wrong ) qualifier how he had placed 1st in gas rigger for the upcoming 2012 event.
Said the Motorheads RC modified J&G VII on the RCMK RZ bottom end was just an animal !!
Only hope yours runs as well

Scott