Cheers RR'ers!
Mephiston- Yeah I think those covers would look better with the slats horizontal but they're angled inwards so unfortunatelycan nly go one way. I think I might leave them off, just empty rusted headlight bowls looks more psychotic anyway!!
Mike- Thanks! Yeah I had to keep hold of it, I've got so much junk in there that I don't know where I'd put it if I had to give it up!
V8Chevette- Cheers mate! Your Chevette is looking amazing too! Can't believe how much it has progressed! Yep I'm getting back into it all again now, going to start picking up the pace again soon I hope!
Tonybmw- Thanks a lot! I got to see your Victor rebuild thread, just incredible!!!
Potter- Thanks!! Yeah the family dragster is still around, I'm just getting ready to update that one too and get back into the project
Sammm- Thanks for that, I very nearly dropped a clanger with the carb adapting. I foolishly only checked as far as Ebay to see what sort of adaptors were made for the carb and assumed there was nothing suitable, but luckily I managed to sort something out before I started making my own!
Seff & Kev- Thanks you guys! Excellent teamwork! I can start butchering the steel wings for the arches to graft into the rear wings now that the fibreglass ones are secured
Rodit- That's very interesting about the wood used as a heat soak! I might, depending on the height I go with up front, have to run a wedge under the carb to level it out and if I do I will consider wood for it's ease of making as well as the heat soaking benefits!
Benzboy- That'd be awesome!!
Oldbus- Thanks mate! Hopefully I'll be cracking on now with no obstacles
BGTMidget- Thanks mate!! I'm aiming to get to some of the meets in it this summer
Stealthstylz- Cheers mate!
SleeperViva- Thanks you!
Bigkris- Cheers for the inspiration!! I was thinking about a two-lane style scoop but part of me has always wanted a snorkel scoop sticking out of the bonnet and sucking in air noisily! I'll see how it looks when the cars together, if it doesn't work I'll cover the hole with a bonnet bulge ;D
Jonny69- Thanks! Yeah I hope family Dragster isn't too far behind this project, I'm planning on working my ar$e off this year!
Jizzie Gillespie- I was actually thinking about making my own moon tank out of something else! There's bound to be something suitible around in some form or another. Also thinking about mounting an LPG donut tank on the boot lid spare wheel mount for the ultimate mad-max-urban-survival car look!
10mpg- Thanks for that, that's valuable info. I took the carb as being a 390 but after some research it doesn't look quite like any of the other carbs I'm seeing on line and I'm having trouble identifying it exactly. All I know is it came off a Rover V8 attached to an Edelbrock manifold (which went for too much cash) so I thought I'd be somewhere close. I guess I'll just have to see how it works. I don't have a lot of choice at the moment so hopefully it isn't going to be too bad!
Lewis- Yeah SU's are great but I really fancied seeing a nice big single carb under the bonnet for some reason. And I get to use the bug catcher!
Autohausdolby- Cheers mate! Yeah hopefully no more hold ups!!
Colonelk- Thanks! I'm glad it's still f interest to people
Griffo20022- Cheers! Yeah I'm getting out of my own comfort zone with this one too! Part of me thinks I should have just dropped it over those original minilites and got an MOT on it, but I'd never have got it off the road again for any serious work in the future I know!
Right then, less gassing and more gasser I think ;D
I've been carrying on with modifying the inlet manifold for the Holley 4 barrel which is taking up a lot of time!
^The underside of my carb looks like this.....
^........ Which, when a pattern is taken from it, shows how much manifold needs removing to get it to work......
^ .......Which is marked out by the purple marker. Not too much to come out, but it's enough to be quite time consuming!
^ I used all sort of tools on it to nibble away at the alloy and I got one side close to where it needs to be. I'm going to keep in that 'divider' as it's fairly integral to the function of the manifold.
Like Sammm said earlier in the thread there's adaptor plates and spacers that'll do the job I need them for without having to make one.
I wasn't exactly thorough with my research on the subject and after cruising Ebay for about a minute I decided there's no such thing and almost bought the ally to make my own inferior version! Fortunately I stumbled across this Mr Gasket one at an autojumble (
Donttellhimpike's stall actually!) for just a tenner, which is less than the ally would have cost me to make it!
So after sidestepping that banana skin I only have to finish carving out the manifold.
^ The plate is drilled for the carb plus also two inboard holes for mounting to your manifold. These mounting holes are too far out unfortunately and miss the area of manifold that can take a bit of drilling and tapping, so I'm just going to have to drill some more further inboard
^ Lots of metal coming out! As you can see the size of my carb means I've had to break into the wall separating the different ports of the manifold.
The left hand side of the inlet takes care of ports 2 & 3 directly with the other side having a passage to feed them aswell but less efficiently, where as the right side feeds 1 & 4 directly and 2 & 3 have less direct passages to them. By providing another route for the air and fuel to feed the other cylinders I'm surely not going to run into trouble am I?
I'. thinking about other manifolds I've seen- Sometimes it's just a hole straight down and then a free-for-all with regards to metering out the mixture to the different cylinders, so surely this can't be much worse than that! I'm hoping it's going to be okay
After a billion stubborn hours with inappropriate tools I decided to buy myself a die grinder drill attachment to make life easier. So that's all the manifold work I can do right now until it arrives early next week!
^ I got this fuel pump off my bro! It's a Lucas type used on Montego Turbo's which says to me that it should give the right sort of PSI as blown Monty's used a single SU carb. But confusingly this same pump is used on injected Jaguars which would suggest a high capacity pump! I'm going to run it with a fuel regulator anyway so it should be A okay:)
^ Finally a little bit of cheating. I really want this car to look like an old drag car survivor from the 70's/80's and so I got this old window sticker to suggest it's seen some racing action back then. It was probably ferrying some old chocker to the chemists and back in '89 rather than lighting 'em up on the drag strip, but I won't tell anyone if you don't!
I've got some more done today so I'll get an update going shortly!!
Thanks for reading!
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