1972 Scamp in New Zealand
Made more progress this weekend, car is basically mechanically stripped now
Made a cradle out of 6x2 building timber, literally slapped it together on some little caster wheels (woefully underrated with a loadrating of 30kg each)
disconnected the last of the wiring, the last of the shift linkage, removed the PS box and it was time to lower the car onto the cradle unbolted the trans x-member, unbolted the K frame and pushed the up button,
such an easy way to remove an engine and trans.
Video:
Carefully wheeled engine and trans to side of the garage,
Pulled a rocker cover to see what the inside of the motor looks like,
not the greatest, but that’s not a huge surprise
Plans have somewhat evolved (read snowballed)
will be taking a bit more time and instead of just doing the minimum to get it through New Zealand’s entry compliance, plans have stretched to running an explorer rear diff, minitubs, move springs inboard so I can fit some nice fat wheels in the back, so it will have to go through what is called Low Volume Vehicle Certification (LLVC) which means it has to get an engineers sign off to say that the work is all up to standard,
So that it’s not all show and no go, the engine will get alloy heads, flat top pistons, headers and a bigger carb than the 500cfm edelbrock that I already have to go with the comp cam and edelbrock inlet manifold
Cheers
Ben
Made more progress this weekend, car is basically mechanically stripped now
Made a cradle out of 6x2 building timber, literally slapped it together on some little caster wheels (woefully underrated with a loadrating of 30kg each)
disconnected the last of the wiring, the last of the shift linkage, removed the PS box and it was time to lower the car onto the cradle unbolted the trans x-member, unbolted the K frame and pushed the up button,
such an easy way to remove an engine and trans.
Video:
Carefully wheeled engine and trans to side of the garage,
Pulled a rocker cover to see what the inside of the motor looks like,
not the greatest, but that’s not a huge surprise
Plans have somewhat evolved (read snowballed)
will be taking a bit more time and instead of just doing the minimum to get it through New Zealand’s entry compliance, plans have stretched to running an explorer rear diff, minitubs, move springs inboard so I can fit some nice fat wheels in the back, so it will have to go through what is called Low Volume Vehicle Certification (LLVC) which means it has to get an engineers sign off to say that the work is all up to standard,
So that it’s not all show and no go, the engine will get alloy heads, flat top pistons, headers and a bigger carb than the 500cfm edelbrock that I already have to go with the comp cam and edelbrock inlet manifold
Cheers
Ben
