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That sounds great. If I was gonna put it in a sixties vintage open wheel car, lol.

The motif I’m going for is hillbilly sawmill though. So it’s gonna get a radiator surround and a slotted grille, and a stack with a muffler that I expect will be about perfect if you like that nasty blat of the average stationary gas engine. 😁

Tonight’s project was installing the electric start kit. The only instructions are a wordless video that conveniently skips over removing the flywheel flange. Thankfully someone commented that the set screw (and as I found out, the flange itself) is secured with high temperature lock-tite.  My little soldering iron wasn’t up to the job of heating the flange, so I broke out the little pencil style propane torch to release it.

All done. It’s a cute system. Rather than a bendix on the starter, the big honking gear that mounts between the block and flywheel is on a one way bearing. The starter motor uses a planetary drive so they don’t need a ridiculously large starter motor. It actually looks pretty well to scale. Push button start instead of using a drill motor to crank it was just too good to pass up, 😁

The hard part now is resisting haywiring it together to hear it run. Gonna go ahead and fabricate the mount block and throttle quadrant, radiator shell and whatnot first.