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[Manta again]

OK that was a long weekend spent on the A, 22hrs in total need new shoulders and a new back or my head testing

What I do need is a new welding helmet mine is taking at least 5-10 secs to go dark not good for the eyes
Ok so the chassis leg and floor section above it is all done, cut it really fine this is the state of the gas bottle when I finished.

Anything more and it would of been game over. I brought the chassis repair sections from Leidinger Tuning to save some time and effort. I have to say that the fit was very poor requiring a lot    of fettling, but at least the rot has gone from that side now

Removed the engine and gearbox from the front clip and separated the gearbox from the engine and removed the flywheel and clucth as they will need fitting onto the next engine as the donor vehicle is currently an auto. Refitted the front clip and at last the old girl was sitting on all four wheels again.

  
Replaced all the gaskets on the gearbox so she should be good for a few more miles now although the oil seapage does stop the rot  
Started preparing my TE project car for heart transplant to go into Eileens A. To save time my plan was just to remove the engine and leave the box in situ but there is one nut that I cant really get to holding the bellhousing onto the engine. It might just have been easier to take the whole lot out but it was getting dark and I just ran out of steam.
The only other bugger is that the top bolt holding the alternator sheared off the reason why this might prove a pain is that the alternator on the auto engine is different and has a remote regulator, so matching up the wiring between alternators might prove  a bridge to far for me.
Going to crash now and figure out the fastest way to get the engine out.

[Manta again]

Totally peeed off, tried to bleed the brakes up.... the brake flaring tool I've got is cheap rubbish all the new pipe work i made up for the front leaked .
got some wiring done   But generally just peeed off. Still lots to do, going back out there now.

[Manta again]

OK OK I surrender
Just to many small things going wrong, I called time at 9.10pm this evening. The A is not going to Billing.
Today has been a crap day my HTC phone died today at about 12.30pm, the heavens opened whilst we had the roof off of a building, its amazing how fast you can get breather fabric up To much rain to continue work rushed home to sort out A. Bought new flaring tool and other stuff, replaced leaking pipes but joint between the flexible hose and hard plumbing at the caliper end sheared off leaving me to find a new flexible hose!!! The rain stopped me from removing the engine from the donor vehicle Theres always next year. We will just have to come in the hatch.

[Manta again]

OK after a long break and far to much fun with hatch I finally got round to finishing some of those jobs round the house that needed doing so it was back to Eileens A.

Started cleaning up the stage 2 head that I found last year to check to see if there is any damage any where.

So far so good but I heed to run it through a cleaner to tell for sure.

As you can see I'm thinking of running it with a single DCOE carb mainly because when finished it will be driven every day and wanted to retain some sort of economy.

The next question is what cam to put in her to retain sensible driving characteristics with a decent performance increase

Edited by Manta again, 05 January 2012 - 03:45 PM.