The engine was absolutely trashed. Not much I could use. only thing I kept was the lower case, and tins. Brian Brown met up with me at A1 with another engine to use for parts as well .
Got new Gaskets, and pistons from Matt at newbreed. With a lot of clean up in the sonic cleaner, and a bit of blasting, it is coming back together really well. New rules in bevra allow internal engine mods. Did a bit of porting. Now just waiting for the heads to come back from the machine shop.
Notice the intake was ported out to match the giant VM-38 Carb boot. The thing really is a giant compared to the little vm34 that came factory. Going to be interesting getting the carb dialed in once its all running. hoping this little 340 takes it well with the other porting that has been done. Also advanced the timing just a bit. lots of test and tune soon to come.

79 spitfire. 78 cyclone 440
76 liqufire 340. 80 liquifire
76 liquifire 440 x 2