Kent 1600 race prep.. anyone with knowledge please click here

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Any Formula Ford builder can help, or buy the book - Building Formula Ford Engines by Jake Lamont. It can usually be found in any of the Australian Technical Bookshops. While it is particular to US Formula Ford, much is relevnant to Aus, and considering that you will not be bound by those rules, it'll help.

I built my last engine out of a $50 waterlogged piece of crap, and $3,000 later, it goes like a rocket. Very few can match it off the line or down the straight.

The main things for life and power are light flywheel, crack free crank - crack test every two years or 10 meetings - always run full or no throttle (it stops the harmonic vibration breaking the crank), rocker allignment, high rather than low clearances, crap oil to bed rings, synthetic oil to run, low ring gaps (use 0.005" OS rings), retard the cam 3 degrees, and dont rev over 7,200.