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Hey Bruce, that’s great news! My oil pan / cover is un painted metal…


I had asked Mona about the connection for the ignition, and the red wire is simply not used from the ignition box. I lengthened the white and black wire, and on the dark tab the black wires connected, on the brass tab the white is connected.

I do have some bad news though, a friend on Facebook who also has a Whippet, his head ran about two hours, and the connecting rod on the Crank pin locked up; evidently Stirlingkit / Musa missed something - the did drilled the connecting rod’s oil “splasher” but the bronze connecting rod bushing isn’t drilled so no oil gets to the crankshaft pin. I checked my whippet, and it’s the exact same way, the bushing is not drilled. So? I need to pull my engine apart and drill the bushing, definitely check your engine also