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I think Suzuki DT175s had them from factory or some shit, I remember finding a something strange and removing it

Gonna keep it for ever at this stage, its not finished

Here is some more ideas MACKAZ You could fab some doors for between the cowl and back half

apparently they have been doing this for years, some people say it works, I can't see any advantages in it.

No sorry Can I intrest you in a set of extractors?

Some people have gotten away with just a lap belt on a LVV cert, I hope to do the same, I don't think I can get away with reging my rat as a 1927 as it has a 1928 model A chassis. Its good to talk to a hot rod builder as they can tell you what you can get away with, Here is my rat

I like that tuck n roll red vinyl

I will try to find it tomorrow and scan it

Can I make one suggestion? that you trim the sides of the cowl back to the top of the chassis, Yes get rid of the seats you have the seat set up in my 1927 ford rat rod I have a low bench seat witch was standed for the car, its not required to have head rests on the back I am told,

I was just flicking thrugh an old book and I saw a Norton with the same engine as this in it

I saw that Volvo on trademe a wile ago, they are realy good cars, I have heeps of bits and peaces for a 240, they don't fit my 245 waggon if you need?

They were worth heeps like 30 yers ago,

Thats very ugly, I am sure you could do something better than that, dose the gearbox you have have the shifter rods running down the side or dose it shift through rods inside the tail shaft?

I use them a cople times, got a few off trade me, they were mostley unsuccessful, parts needed to be super clean, you would need an oxy acetylene set at minimum. I did fill a hole in an intake manafold witch seemed to work, but welding cracks and stuff I couldn't get it to work, would just turn black and wouldn't stick

Some of those cheep air ones run the compressor down real fast

I had my 2000 shit the bottom end from high revs, then bend a valve from more high revs, those engines can hammer away with bad bearings for years. is the oil pump not up to the job?

I like it, Don't put a v8 in it.

Is it a 2000cc not a 2.5? holey crap you have had 93 of them? I only had 6,

The problem this engine has a bit of crap in it, I was worryed about it all coming loose, I did clean as much out as possable. fuchs do an oil for lawnmowers witch is about $19 for 4 leters. The 2nd motor I am putting togeather I will run modern oil as it will have a full flow filter and everything in new and clean,

I hope it had ZDDP aswell

I have droped the sump and scooped all the thick black shit out, I have an oil filter on this car but its not a full flow filter, it just bleeds off a very small amount of oil and that goes thrugh the filter and back to the sump. Would B&S oil be ok to use in a car? its a side vlave v8

Where would one obtain a non detergent monograde engine oil now days for old sidevalve engines in cars that have have no oil filtration systems, and have a sludge build up? someone recommended briggs and stratton oil but I think thats more for air coold lawnmoer motors,

Yes, I like rust repairs, I find it interesting,

casting party

I am going to cranck things up a few degrees, I have a big silicon carbide crucible, it was quit expensive, I am going to try doing some cast iron, started bulding an oil burner, only problem I need $300+ worth of refractory cement