Tom disassembled his engine forty years ago. He had us help him out with the machine work and some assembly, but he did most of the assembly himself, under our watchful eyes, right here are University Motors. Yesterday, Tuesday, October 3, 2006, this engine roared to life on the bench. It was quite spectacular!
After we finished running it for about 30 seconds, watching the oil pressure, Tom cleaned off the ancillaries and Curt painted it MG Red in the spray booth. Tom made an ingenious tray to hold the engine, and four of us were able to lift it up and place it into the back of his car -- and back to Ann Arbor he drove. Those couple of shots of oil in each cylinder, just before startup, really left a haze in the shop. But the smoke, the flames from the exhaust, the roar -- it was all worth if after FORTY YEARS of silence.
