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They're really light. Dan weighed them and several other sets of wheels he had, they were the lightest by a couple of pounds except for a set of...
Paintwork is almost done, just the final cut and polish, then it's ready to come back to me for re-assembly.....[ATTACH] [ATTACH]
Yeah, I hope to have it back in the engine stand and running by next weekend, depending on when the crank comes back.
Cylinder head coming together.....[ATTACH] [ATTACH]
Cylinder head came back, looks nice.....I taped it off and gave it the first coat of POR 15. Once the crank comes back "sometime this week" then I...
One other small project I whipped up this afternoon..... To set the timing on these early cars there's a small window on the bellhousing that you...
While not as bad as last week my back is still hurting, but I got tired of sitting on the couch and there's nothing on TV so I went down to the...
I guess part of the problem is it's the only crankshaft shop I know of within about a 4 hour drive! They were jammed with work too, engine blocks...
Parts from England made it about noon, so I ran them downtown to the Cylinder head guy, he said it would be done "sometime next week". Since I was...
Yeah, and DHL did not deliver today even tho they said they would "by the end of the day" which is as close as they come anymore to giving you a...
More parts.....I've been waiting for the valves to come from MiniSpares - I thought I would have them Monday, but here we are Thursday - they're...
[ATTACH] At dinner Sat night...the whole bunch minus one family who were local and headed home instead with their three small children. Sunday a...
Supposed to rain all day today, so we'll just hang out in the shop and do some wrenching..... The Vtec Pup and the car with the hot rod motor I...
[ATTACH] The gangs all here! [ATTACH] [ATTACH]
First to arrive at the party....my Innocenti is the red car in the shop, my green car is parked outside......Inno body is painted, still need to...
Looks like the bomb cyclone will be dropping plenty of rain and maybe even snow on us on Saturday and Sunday.....
Heading out of town tomorrow to meet up with a bunch of my Classic Mini buds, see you all next week!
Had to order valves from England, the ones in it are way oversized compared to what I can get locally - I did go ahead and take them the seals and...
The new camshaft that arrived yesterday came with the springs recommended to be used with it, so I took them down to the cylinder head guy hoping...
It's getting harder and harder to get basic stuff done. How long before we're down to scrounging for old parts because we can't get them machined...