This happened.

Been a while since I've posted last. Here's where the case inducted e50 sits. Cylinder intake delete plate made. Case halves gooped up and put together with stainless Allen heads. Hpi installed. Treats race crank with new seals and bearings. I cut new gaskets for the reed block since the og ones were shit. Bottom end all assembled and ready for the top end. Still undecided if I want to ad a locator pin to bottom of the case and cylinder to keep things aligned. Currently I have small cut pieces of knitting needles in the cylinder (Walmart purple needles (6mm id! Whahhhh)) but the studs I'm using aren't a true 6mm on the unthreaded section and there is still a tiny bit of wiggle when it's on the studs. Most people and factorys put cylinders on and skip this part but I'm pretty attentive to this kinda thing. We'll see when it comes to it soon here.

Cases.

I got a set of cheep e50 cases for the maxi. The lip around the flywheel cover was ground off and they were all crusty and white with some weird crap corroded on them. I gave them a quick sandblasting to take it off and cleaned up  around where the lip used to be since it was uneven. Then drilled and tapped a new hole for the hpi. Not sure if I even needed to, but ohh well. Better to have it and not need it then to need it and not have it I guess. I will weld them up for larger transfers probably this weekend. 

Also started cutting the hole out of the plate for the case induction action. It's not all the way done of course.