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Good luck with your trip Neil. Hope it all goes smoothly for you.

Karl

The grief these cars give is repaid once driven.
Nice work Mark.
Karl

Thanks guys,
all this time and work , just because I wanted to clean up the engine and stop some oil drips in lock down!

Karl

Well I thought I was doing well. starting to see the end in near sight. I put the inlet manifolds on, matching up the gaskets and a bit of fine tuning https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/53608996235_3656e5f9be_c.jpg 20240319_163404 by karlhash , on Flickr https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/53608540...

Its always good when you get an award, especially if you haven't tried to.
Well deserved.
Karl

Lightweight_911 wrote: ↑Sun Mar 17, 2024 6:36 pm .

Hi Karl - my car's VIN is 911 110 0948 ...

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Hi Andy the cars are 1352 apart
not as close as I had hoped.
Hazels ends 2300.

Karl

I cant wait to see what you do with this car Andy.
It's the same as Hazels car was originally, a burgundy 2.2 71 T, but hers has a long way to go to catch up to yours.
Might be interesting to see how far apart the vin numbers are.

Karl

Winston , yes, exactly that. It stops the plain Cork gaskets deforming and slipping out of place.

Karl.

Thanks Hugo, Gary, Sladey and Roy. Hugo I like to glue the rocker gaskets in so when you pull the covers for maintenance, both the gasket and cover come away as one making it easier to avoid an oily mess.... or less of an oily mess :lol: Roy, I have learnt so much from reading other peoples posts, s...

Bonjour Slow progress report..... I rematched the combustion chambers so they are all now 61.2ml https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/53545799766_d15d50bc77_c.jpg 20240204_172041 by karlhash , on Flickr Measured all the barrel heights...OK. https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/53587973223_a748561a90_c...

OOh can't wait for this, Andy.
It's bound to be uber cool.

Karl

That looks bloomin' lovely.
Enjoy your hi revving miles.

Karl

First post for the year. Its been a while so, a little update is due. What I have been doing has taken its time and I kept doing it in little bits over Christmas. I have been addressing the heads and the need to cut the cone shape a bit deeper into them because they have been fly cut before. This is...

Those definitely look like a nice bit of kit.
I bet you cant wait to try this engine out.

Karl

You do need to be a registered breaker to be able to buy Cat B vehicles.
Karl