KemppiFrog
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Any chance you can match the bore size to a small Renault engine? They used wet liners that might be resized to fit. I had a Perkins sleeved by a machine shop in Portugal. He showed me a heap of rough castings and selected some, then machined the outside to the book dimensions, pressed them in, then bored them to STD size. Quite an education and not expensive.
The Renault liners are centrifugally cast and very long lifed. Plus, heaps in the yards, nicely aged
KF
Daimlers came in 2.5lt and 4.5lt. The latter in the Majestic, popular for weddings and funerals. But quite a performer if goosed.
Going back to 1960s F1; CC made some great engines for the 1500cc era. The last one being a 32valve V8 that Lotus used to some effect. When the rules changed to 3lt, CC bowed out ( Cost?) and Ford sponsered Cosworth to make the DFV. Often said that it was the best £100K that Ford ever spent.
Is it the photos, or is that a very wide angle between the bores? Looks to be 90 deg or over?
Yet more edit... The CC 1500 V8s were resized for the Tasman(OZ) series at 2.500cc. So not much of a stretch to get to 3lt, if they had found the money. Jack Brabham bet on a production motor with single cam heads to win the first years F1 3ltr series, on the assumption that nobody would get a better motor ready in time. He was right.
The Renault liners are centrifugally cast and very long lifed. Plus, heaps in the yards, nicely aged

KF
Daimlers came in 2.5lt and 4.5lt. The latter in the Majestic, popular for weddings and funerals. But quite a performer if goosed.
Going back to 1960s F1; CC made some great engines for the 1500cc era. The last one being a 32valve V8 that Lotus used to some effect. When the rules changed to 3lt, CC bowed out ( Cost?) and Ford sponsered Cosworth to make the DFV. Often said that it was the best £100K that Ford ever spent.
Is it the photos, or is that a very wide angle between the bores? Looks to be 90 deg or over?
Yet more edit... The CC 1500 V8s were resized for the Tasman(OZ) series at 2.500cc. So not much of a stretch to get to 3lt, if they had found the money. Jack Brabham bet on a production motor with single cam heads to win the first years F1 3ltr series, on the assumption that nobody would get a better motor ready in time. He was right.
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