Ghostchips

Cold or hot dipped? Hot fills a fair bit. Dip it then coat with sealer for max protection?

Yes. Hot dipped zinc is good like that.

It's like working on a lawnmower carb' but bigger and no plastic anywhere. Not sure if you can read that but the name plate reads "Holley carburetor Detroit Mich" The whole car is like a mechano set.

For lack of steel to fit an old time aftermarket cylinder head i am trying to fit the old head and carb'. Amazing how well those nuts rusted to little strips of thread held the carb' onto the intake manifold. Look how much i could port the manifold by if i had flexy grinder things... Fuel fittings made from bits of tractor, bits from a gas regulator i found at the rubbish dump and a broken fitting that was left in the fuel inlet of the carb'. Unscrewed the broken piece from the carb' and drilled it out enough to slide some tubing in it. Soldered the tubing into a piece from the gas regulator and used the end from the tractor fuel fitting to fit it to the fuel line. Probably was a simpler method if i could get more parts.. So the story behind my obtaining the tube cutter was i found it at the dump, someone threw it away thinking it was useless, looks like they simply wound the cutting wheel closer and closer to the little wheels the pipe is supposed to roll on and squashed the tube flat and they kept winding it until it pressed it's way through the tube? That's not how it's supposed to work.

This is inspiring craftsmanship, i like your welding too.

You can tell which piston ring i made because it has some file marks on it. This block is pretty bad but i can't find anyone who'll touch it, definitely need to cut some valve seats some day soon.

So after finding the once widely available fuel line fittings i knew during the industrial revolution are now considered "old fashioned" and not available at any place i could find i resorted to making my own. Notice the air line hose fitting is a close fit to the tube. If i cut it in half it becomes a perfect match for a 1/4 BSP fitting as used on old tractors. Bad picture but the fit is good. How convenient.

R100 was asking to sort of questions i would ask. Because not conformist.

Fixable for a price. The block could be either a new sleeve or bodge it with a mig welder and file but it'll need fixing again sooner or later, and will need a new sleeve next rebuild.

No idea. i'm used to picking out old shells an melting them but that's poor practice/contaminated so i hear. i'll see if i can get someone to order some and see what happens.

So where would i obtain white metal, lead free, pure engine bearing spec white metal?

Made some square nuts. So when i sleepwalk i sometimes make mirror brackets. Not even mad about it. Thanks to a donor i have some leather to cover the seats with. Found some springs too but they were a bit harsh so i took them out to maybe rework them or swap them out later. Maybe give the foam underneath some better shape later but for now i'll live with the plain bulge. Here is the now leather seat base. Pretty sure it was BangBug who was the donor.

This battery terminal lead end started life as A copper pipe clamp.

So today i made a knife switch to operate the starter.

Factory horn button actually looked like this, as in a wire running through the spokes of the steering wheel. Henry ford didn't want to change anything when electric horns came into fashion.

New brake plates fitted.

i'll ask around /lingpost.

Is that one of those fibreglass cows in a wind tunnel?

Is brazing cracked piston rings something to do as a stopgap measure or do i have to obtain more/new ones?

What about heating the part you need to flatten with a torch? It will slump inward and retain thickness. This is very risky however, for obvious reasons.

All thhe humbers died so you might have to make new parts.

I also have some rough wooden case transistor pacemakers that might have been made in nz but they're not as grand as you were hoping for.

Is a red and white plastic brick suitable?

Are the bushes bronze? i have some left over piston pin bronze bushes depending no how big you need them.

Is this a drift car?