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carbs and all linkages are done - all shiny and functional
just need to make the manifolds up, so giz your profile cutter or something
since just before the beach hop i have been having a prick of a time with the car randomly developing (usually after a bit of high revs, but not all the time) a miss, which would sometimes go away if i could get the revs up enough.
so gave the inners of the distributor a good clean (springs and plates were gummed up with something (no vac advance on this))
gave it an oil
replaced rotor - the one in there had a loose (2mm movement either way) contact
recrimped grounding wire as it was nearly broken through
and hello, problem is solved
a combination of all of the above was leading to the timing becoming all over the show at random times.
runs nice and smooth and starts 1st pop once again, so thats pretty meke. Timing wants to be a little more advanced than it is now but thats no problem. As an interesting point, the owners manual states that you should advance the timing until it starts to pink and then back off "a bit" playing it by ear until optimum performance is obtained
Have my spare engine stripped down to its component pieces, all of which are undergoing cleaning and eventually respray of the block and other little bits, polishing of all the alloy (not sanding as i want to retain the cast look, tho i am removing the worst of the casting marks).
before it all goes back together i will see what can be improved in the porting side of things
reground cam
double valve springs
lightened fly wheel
to go with my twin carbs and headers
she should fly along quite nicely
at the moment bodywise she is undergoing some major prep work
currently have half the outside primed and block sanded, removing any nick or scratch that threatens to mar the new paint job.
Not too much to do really, theres only 1 dent on the thing and that was pretty shallow anyway.
Dont remember if i mentioned, but i stripped down the front wings and removed teh shitty bog job hiding the rust in the rear of them (every morrie rusts here) giving the mig a good work out. The only other rust is in the boot lid - which is slightly worse than i thought, but shouldnt take more than 5 mins to patch.
next to do is finish the exterior sanding
interior sanding
prep inside boot (removing gas tank as i want to paint this differently)
prep engine bay (will remove as much as i can, not that theres anything really to remove and pop out the engine)
then a final strip down of anything i dont want paint on, then spray everything (will be a front and rear wing off paintjob for lushness)
have changed direction a little from what i was originally intending, but i think its going to come out real nice
but il keep that under my bowler hat for now
