Thread: Looking for an engine builder in Melbourne

Ditto. In Cottage St Blackburn, do a lot of work for the historic racing scene.

They were the other mob I was looking at, but much further away so the local guy got the gig. He's done both the 2.0 4 cylinder and 2.6 6 cylinder F head engines before, so I'm not worried that's he's not up to the job.

With so few engine rebuilders left, I would think the ones still running must have the runs on the board by now or they would have fallen off the perch like 95% of them have over the last 15 to 20 years.

Several years ago, a friend of mine purchased a Messerchmitt 109 that had been shot down in Russia during WW11,...you could still see the bullet holes along the fuselage & into the engine block.
Crankshaft Rebuilders did work on the engine for him.
It was my friend's intention to restore the 109 to flying condition, but the task was beyond him, and so He sold it to U.S. interests who had the same intention.
Pickles.