Richie's Mk1 Restoration

[RichardT10829]

Because from building other engines..... My experience with engines designed with three mains are a crap design, especially on a long crank such as the V8, if you rev the engine, which in a carrier (rightly or wrongly) people do, the crank will flex..... When it flexes it blows out main bearings and rod bearings.... Also it creates a failure point on the centre main journal and you get situations where the crank snaps inline with the centre main.

For what a centre strap costs, I am pondering with the question if it's worth doing ? belt and braces and all that. I was just curious to see if Ben had it done to his (being built by a pro)