ENGINE BALANCER IN THE MIDLANDS

[mrmoo]

as per the title

i need to get the v6 crank, rods, pistons and flywheel balanced

the flywheel will also need lightening at the same time

im in cannock, but anywhere that does a good job and is within the midlands or staffordshire area

cheers

[kirk10]

just found these not sure if they do it worth a call tho

 

Millington Racing Engines

Lower Cockshutt Farm

Lower Cockshutt

Bridgnorth

WV16 6RF (Road Map)

Shropshire

 

Tel: 01746 789268

 

 

 

or there

 

 

http://www.telfordenginecentre.com/

[5hane]

millington if thats the people who make the 2.5 cossy yb's it may be a tad on the expencive side

[kirk10]

yeah i just did a search and thought shit its 2 mins walk from here lol

it carnt be surley

[Slammed]

lol fancy living somewhere and in youre address it has COCKshut in it

[5hane]

yeah i just did a search and thought shit its 2 mins walk from here lol

it carnt be surley

 

you should go down there

[kirk10]

i will do be good to see if it is the place we think

[mrmoo]

cheers kirk

contrats on such an awesome avitar

 

it sucks all the old skool places i used when a nipper have shutdown

[Anglia68]

millington if thats the people who make the 2.5 cossy yb's it may be a tad on the expencive side

 

Yes,it is the guy who makes Millington Diamond engines but they're nothing to do with Cosworth.

Millington use their own blocks,heads,cam carriers,cranks,rods,pistons and many other parts.

 

A carrier turned up at work earlier this year to collect a pallet off us and when the driver opened the curtain there was a crated up Millington Diamond engine on the back which he had just collected.

I offered to take it off the wagon but the driver was having none of it.

[5hane]

millington if thats the people who make the 2.5 cossy yb's it may be a tad on the expencive side

 

Yes,it is the guy who makes Millington Diamond engines but they're nothing to do with Cosworth.

Millington use their own blocks,heads,cam carriers,cranks,rods,pistons and many other parts.

 

A carrier turned up at work earlier this year to collect a pallet off us and when the driver opened the curtain there was a crated up Millington Diamond engine on the back which he had just collected.

I offered to take it off the wagon but the driver was having none of it.

 

do they use cossy designs then ? i knew they were a custom blok but didnt know the head was too there worth silly bucks arnt they ?

[mrmoo]

back to the orignal post?

the telford engine website is half dead links and its sounds like millington is out my wallet range

 

so back to square one.....

[Anglia68]

do they use cossy designs then ? i knew they were a custom blok but didnt know the head was too there worth silly bucks arnt they ?

 

As far as I know when he first started building his own engines they were based on Cosworths but since then they've been developed bigger and bigger to what they are today and now share very little with the original Cosworth engine.

[Anglia68]

back to the orignal post?

the telford engine website is half dead links and its sounds like millington is out my wallet range

 

so back to square one.....

 

Wilkinson Dynamic Balancing of Halesowen are supposed to be very good.I've had crank and rods balanced by them even though I went through other companies.

 

http://www.wdbltd.co.uk/about.htm

[mrmoo]

cheers

[Retromotorsport]

Only one place my customers go to in the Midlands .. and thats Chessman Engineering, ask for Steve Peason .. and say that ' tall lanky pisshead from Retro ' gave you his number .. hes in Nuneaton .

 

number is 02476 689 665

 

He's done Classic Le-Mans engines for Jaguar and Aston, and yet still has Clubmans prices, hes a piss taking barsteward though, so be prepared for a laugh ..

[escort new boy]

theres a place in Aston got some bits from there last week, can dig the number out if you want it?

[mrmoo]

cool the more the better!

im glad these places still exist

[speedydaveb]

If you're from Cannock, have you heard of John Wade Engineering?

He did a lot of work on my mex spec xflow years ago but specialised on working on essex V6's

 

He was working out of his home in Baswich, Stafford when I used him though last I heard he had an industrial unit in penkridge somewhere

Tried to google his name but it came up with nothing. I might still have his number and could ask him where he gets his balancing done if you get stuck

[mrmoo]

that would be awesome

finding essex specialists is like finding hens teeth

[speedydaveb]

Just got off the phone from John, he is still going, working from four ashes industrial estate.

 

He says he cannot do dynamic balancing (WTF? going over my head now!) but can balance the pistons and rods himself. The crank he would use a guy he knows that is a specialist in the field and then went on to explain about V6's being different than straight 6's and piston weights and rod weights when he lost me again!

 

If your engine is an Essex he would need the crank pulley and flywheel to balance the crank as it is externally balanced (understood that bit) so lightening the flywheel cannot be done 'willy nilly' (his phrase!)

 

He's a top bloke, can talk for England but don't expect him to be the cheapest, he is a specialist after all.

 

If you want the job doing it would be advisable to do it sooner rather than later as he has another customer that needs a crank balancing in the next few weeks and it would work out cheaper if he did yours at the same time.

 

John Wade Engineering

tel: 01902 798303

 

tell him Dave Bolton sent you!