Exhaust Manifolds

Too many of these. Between the mismash of mounting tabs and collectors, it's hard to find the best one of the bunch. Maybe #2 is what I'll use. It's probably from a 2000cc engine.














The rest...ebay?

These are all different and I wonder what their history is. I'll post to the 311s.org and see of those folks know.

Brakes clean-up and teardown

Must rebuild the brakes since the insides are an unknown. If there's rust, better to know before trying unsuccessfully to stop going into turn one.

A before look of the front brake assy...

Front Dunlop/Sumitomo Disc...Not pretty. I really Hope it isn't rusted inside because they are over $280 a pair.

Cleaned the caliper....and clear coated with high temp paint.

Pulled the pistons apart. Good thing I did because they were starting to rust. I hand worked the inside surfaces with 1200 grit paper to remove as mush rust and pitting as possible. Now reassembled, clean, and ready to be re-mounted and filled with fluid.

Rear drums. Cast Aluminum with a steel insert brake surface.
Before...

And after. I may repaint these black since the Panasport rims are silver.

Next is rebuilding the rear brake piston assemblies.

Back Finally !!!!

After much time moving into the new house (last July...sheesh!), the car is finally being worked on again in earnest.

Much to my surprise, I was fortunate enough to hook up with Joe again at TopTechMotorsports to check the engine over. It had been sitting for some time who knew what evils lie inside after the precedence made with first motor tradgedy.

Fantastic bonus was that Joe built that motor many moons ago. Man he knows alot !!!! Good thing I had him review it because the dizzy was out 180 degrees. Rest seems good for a race season. Tranny is looking good too and reportedly has special German syncros in it. I dunno what that means, but someday I'll know the difference they make.

I installed a different clutch pack that was part of the original lot of parts from the car buy. I think it'll be a good change.

Lightened Flywheel for quicker revs out of the corners

Old / New clutch option. Note the backing place is very different. (Besides the rust)

Got tranny cleaned and ready.

Inside of the bell housing showing clutch arm and thow-out bearing. Both lookin' good.

Good looking motor...needs a tranny :-)

Flywheel attached. Used the Blue treadlock here and on the clutch pack bolts.

Flywheel and clutch pack in place. Just add tranny.

4 Bolts and it ready for install. But the rest of the car isn't :-(

Weldments...FINALLY!

Finally procured the services of a local and accessible welder to add additional bars to the doors and to the underdash area. Also, a buddy CNC'd a quick release adapter for the steering wheel...very nice fitment.

With the bars in place, it's now time to Paint.

On a related note, I finally got something I always wanted; an epoxy coated floor. No more stains and messes to clutter things. It took getting a new house and having nothing in it, but I took advnatage of the empty pallet to get 'er done!

Will post car pix after piant!

Fender Flare

After installing the Superlites, I see that I will have to learn how work sheet metal. The back tires are so close to the inside of the fender, that they will rub with any load in the car (or in turns). I first noticed it when moving the car back into the garage. There's a slope to our drive forcing me to really lean into the roll bar to push it back uphill. The tires rubbed off some old glag that was left adhered to the inside of the fender. I just thought it was underbody coating...

Paint Scheme in Yeller

Color has been decided and here's a Photoshopped preview of the goal. Tasty!

Lift Installed

Got the 4-post lift installed this past weekend and finished the hydraulics on Thursday. Bought it on line for $1550 delivered, including jack tray, castors and 3 drip trays. Had it delivered to work, the boys unloaded with a forklift and reloaded into my 16' car trailer. 1600 pounds, and 14'x2'x2'. it was a brute of a package.

Got it home and spent 2 hours maneuvering pieces out one-by-one. When they say you need an overhead crane or a few friends, they were right. But, I did it all myself using engineering prowess with a table jack, dolly, and floor jack. The impact driver made quick work of the countless 24mm bolts holding the parts together. The drive-on platforms were by far the heaviest. But, I did manage it myself and lived to tell about it. Here's some pics of the 3 girls in their 2-car garage. And, I still have the 16x35ft woodworking workshop full of auto parts. Hmmmm...gotta solve that one soon. Bye for now, gott go do more bondo as it is sunny!!!!