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Legere Motorsports Amateur racing team/car builder from Spofford, NH, USA The trials and tribulations of a guy with too many cars, and not enough money to finish them...

Crankcase grinding was much easier. I’m not trying to make it perfectly smooth, just removing loose casting flash. Ready...
08/28/2026

Crankcase grinding was much easier. I’m not trying to make it perfectly smooth, just removing loose casting flash.

Ready to be brought to the machine shop now.

Other side of the block is now done. After lunch I’ll grind inside the crankcase area…just to deburr things.
08/28/2026

Other side of the block is now done. After lunch I’ll grind inside the crankcase area…just to deburr things.

Very busy day yesterday. I pre-prepped two cylinder heads to be dropped off at the machine shop. Pre-prepping includes s...
08/28/2026

Very busy day yesterday. I pre-prepped two cylinder heads to be dropped off at the machine shop.

Pre-prepping includes sanding the deck surface and manifold surface, removing the intake dowels, measuring the head thickness to see if it’s been previously milled, removing the rocker studs, honing the lifter bores, deburring the head casting’s sharp edges, removing the camshaft bearings, removing the factory press-in oil galley plugs, tapping all the oil galley holes for threaded plugs, and chasing all the threaded holes on the head.

After that I jumped onto the block for my hillclimb engine. Previously I had cut off any extraneous/un-used pieces of cast iron. I followed that by fully grinding the exterior of the block with carbide burrs. Then the tedious process of sanding all those surfaces with 120-grit cartridge rolls. Hopefully I can finish it today so I can drop the block off on Monday.

08/27/2026

This is a first for me. Block exterior fully ground down after cutting off any extraneous metal.

Aside from looking nice, I figured after I’m all done it should be about 6-7 lbs lighter than stock.

My goal, after figuring in all the lightened components, is to have the complete engine weigh in around 260-265 lbs.

Once I’m done here it gets dropped off at the machine shop. It will be steel shot-blasted, bored/honed to size, align-honed mains, and the deck milled,

Last week I did a little shop upgrade. I finally made the partitions for my engine parts storage area. They serve two pu...
08/26/2026

Last week I did a little shop upgrade. I finally made the partitions for my engine parts storage area. They serve two purposes, one is to support the countertop, the other is to provide a vertical surface for hanging up gaskets and specialty tools.

The other thing I finally got done was to refurbish the old C&R sign I made way back in 1991. It sat in my old damp barn probably from 2000 to 2020 or so. The steel framework was rusty and the paint on the wooden signs had faded pretty badly. I sent the steel frame out to get blasted and coated, while the wooden signs got compounded and shined up a bit, with some damaged areas being touched up.

08/19/2026

Just an FYI, but I spoke with the manufacturer (Dries & Krump of Chicago) of my 8’ sheet metal brake today, and they confirmed by serial number that it was built in 1949.

Pretty cool! Back when they made things to last a lifetime!

Also crazy to think it was already 39 years old when I bought it, and now it’s 77 years old.

Stickers make EVERYTHING faster.
08/16/2026

Stickers make EVERYTHING faster.

FINALLY, all assembled and paint touched up. Hopefully I won’t need to do this again until I’m 90 years old. By then I ...
08/16/2026

FINALLY, all assembled and paint touched up.

Hopefully I won’t need to do this again until I’m 90 years old. By then I won’t care, lol.

2 steps forward, three steps back?Yup…that just happened. Went to roll the lower frame into position and it fell over. L...
08/15/2026

2 steps forward, three steps back?

Yup…that just happened. Went to roll the lower frame into position and it fell over. Loudly.

Bent some stuff, scratched up everything too. Guess I’ll continue sanding and painting tomorrow.

Helped out my stepson today by making a new wire harness for the alternator. The OEM wire gauge was far too small for a ...
08/15/2026

Helped out my stepson today by making a new wire harness for the alternator. The OEM wire gauge was far too small for a 150-amp alternator.

He also switched to a one-wire design, so that meant many wires were redundant. A new harness with just the bare necessities was a better solution I thought. I integrated two of the factory plugs, which includes the dash warning light feed, factory amp gauge, and plug-in for a secondary battery. But otherwise it’s all new 6-gauge charging wire.

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