The final assembly of the SII 330 engine I am restoring was completed at Francois’ shop.

This included installing the timing chain chest. I used an anaerobic sealant on the surfaces on the block to keep oil from leaking out of this area.

With the timing chest installed, I installed the chain and timing sprockets, water pump housing, and associated seals and gaskets. This timing chest has a special bolt that secures the top of the chest to the block that I made sure I installed behind this threaded hole.

I timed in the camshafts after setting the valve lash on the heads before installing the valve covers.

I loaded up the engine and brought it back to my shop in Hudson NY to finish up the detail work. I’m glad I did most of the work at my mentor’s shop in CT, but it was time to take it back to my shop and finish some of the detail work. I posted a video of some of the work I did while I was down at Francois Sicard’s shop.

The small details included making up new spark plug wires and installing them in the spark plug tubes that are so iconic to a Vintage Ferrari engine. Some people say the boots are supposed to be black and sometimes you see the hard Bakelite resistor ends, but I have seen original cars with this orange rubber boots, so I like installing them.

Here’s a picture of some original boots as proof!

This engine is getting close to going back in the car!