Reading James' thread on the BMW has really grabbed my interest in doing a project once our house move is complete (hopefully later this year). SWMBO has said absolutely minimal DIY on the next place so that will leave me with a lot of spare time on my hands. The first order of the day will be to sort, fettle and sell the kit car, to make some space, but once that's done I like the idea of a project to get my teeth into.
The thing is, I can do most maintenance on cars, Cam belts, suspension components, service items etc etc. However that's all pretty much just taking bits off, replacing some and putting the rest back where you found them

. That's very different to what James has been doing with lapping the valves, etc and my question on this is:
- For those of you that can, how did you learn to rebuild an engine?
- Are there any good resources available to learn how to perform a rebuild?
- How do you assess what components need to be replaced as part of a rebuild?