RD250

Changing the chassis is a bit of work but I really didn't want to be getting bored this winter so I thought I'd go and mess up my engine as well. The basic plan stood that I would take my existing RD250D aircooled cylinder heads and mate them with a set of RD250LC cases. Why? Well you get a better gearbox, but more importantly the cases are fully rubber mounted. Shakleton the RD250 had suffered greatly with vibration induced lack of structural integrity throughout 2017 so a rubber mounted engine was high on my wish list.  The cases I started shopping for a set of cases as soon as the season ended but could find nothing under £900! Andy Green, one of my racing team mates, offered me a set of cases to get started with. They came from the back of his shed but for all my appreciation for his help and generocity, they looked like they had come out of a canal! These things were covered in grime, missing/ bent studs and some rather seized looking internals would all n