Fred
Sorry for the delay...been a bit occupied, then went on holiday.
Finished the other head outlet port to the cooling system so now all the bits will get a coating of (POR 15) which should keep the corrosion at bay. With all the ancillary parts made for the motor, its time to pull that down and freshen it up. I had planned to just run it stock....good thing that plans are just that as I have now got a medium cam, new followers, heads ported and the inlet manifolds done to accept the 4 x 40mm Del Orto carbs. I hope to get similar performance to my original car which was 197HP at the rear wheels and that`s plenty when you are only pushing 700kg +-.
With the painting done its now time to find all the bits and start putting it together. Tyres are just waiting to be turned so there is not much more to fabricate apart from body mounts and the radiator surround. Axels will be left till last thing as they will be specials, Subaru at the wheel and Audi at the box.
Looking forward to starting the body work and I have got a good scale drawings with a 100mm grid overlaid so that will help when setting up the mold which will be constructed just like you would form up a boat mold. Still have yet to decide whether to make a male or a female mold...if its only to produce one body then it seems like a good option to put all the finishing work into the final body. All that has to wait until the chassis is a runner and can then be stored off site.
I have included a picture showing the jig I made up to fabricate the inlet mainfold`s in, just a comment in that the bracing or connection between top and bottom needs to be much stronger as I got the same (but opposite) distortion on both sides. Agonized how to solve it with out massive surface grinding and came up with the idea of water jet cutting thick nylon `gaskets` that i can bolt onto the top of the inlets and using the flat across the rocker covers, router the surfaces back to a common level. I had always planned an insulator between the carb`s and motor so this will do it all in one and a few more mm in height will do no harm. I did get a small amount of surface distortion on the manifold to head face so went out and bought a nice big new flat fine file and went for it...job done.
I shall post some more pics as it comes.
Cheers
Leon
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