I am at the stage of trying to decide whether to purchase a standard 1300 Crossflow and get a local engine builder to rebuild it to 750mc spec (rebore etc..) or just go an buy an expensive Randall engine. Anyone know of any engine builders in the North West that may be up to the job of building a half-decent engine (not looking for a front running car but dont want to be falling off the back end of the pack either)?

Thanks.

I don't know exactly where you are, or where the "North West" boundary falls exactly but there is a really proper engine rebuild place near me called Crewe Engines, based in (believe it or not) Crewe!
They may not be interested in smaller one off jobs nowadays as they do quite a lot of Merc's and often have loads of buses coaches outside their units but they really did have an excellent reputation.

hth
Steve.

try component engineering in hapton near burnley, he built my 1700cc xflow for my old westy. He specialises in bda/g's etc etc and is one of the old school. Dont let the small premises put you off, he knows his onions. He has had a lot of his cars in classic car mag.....think the last one was a lime green anglia with a bda engine in it .....

Peter

If Chester isn't too far from you, tyr A.B motors in Hawarden (about 5 miles from Chester).
Top guys who really know their stuff - I'm going again on Saturday

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Originally posted by worX
I don't know exactly where you are, or where the "North West" boundary mbbnnmnexactly but there is a really proper engine rebuild place near me called Crewe Engines, based in (believe it or not) Crewe!
They may not be interested in smaller one off jobs nowadays as they do quite a lot of Merc's and often have loads of buses coaches outside their units but they really did have an excellent reputation.

hth
Steve.

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Hi Niel bold is up north somwhere cant think exacly. But he has done many of the 750mc locost engines aswell as an awfull lot of the ff 1600 engines all over the world .

If you want contact details u2u me and i will dig contact number out.

cheers matt

Neil is around Runcorn if I remember correctly - he would get my vote (or Randall) if you want a fully built engine as they know what the score is with 750MC spec engines. If you want machining doing to put an engine together yourself that would be a different question and I would probably go for Component Engineering as mentioned

Look no further than Dave Brooks in Crewe.
One of the best in the business, and an expert on Fords.

www.davebrooks-engines.co.uk