VINTAGE GERMAN R.G.U. RESTORATION

Our good friend in the Netherlands Peter Valicek sent us in this very sad looking R.G.U. diesel engine from Germany along with some spare parts with the friendly challenge to "see what you can do with this engine to improve the performance and whatever else you can do with the parts". Okay then, well lets see what we can come up with in response to this taunt, the gauntlet has well and truly been thrown down it would seem.

OK so let's pull it down and see what's what. The spare parts will be used to build a custom built multi cylinder engine which can be seen on the "CUSTOM BUILT" engines page.

So here's all the bits dismantled and ready for cleaning.........

High performance was obviously not on the list of design parameters when this poor old boy was conceived judging by these somewhat undersized transfer ports........

Well, we'll need to see what we can do to rectify that massive oversight by the original designer.

Here we have the original parts all cleaned up and ready for some rectification work to be done.

First step is to remachine some transfer ports into the liner that don't require a magnifying glass to see, lol.