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Brosky

Brosky

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Progress is moving steadily along. Here are some updated shots taken just before lunch today. It will be running tomorrow for sure.

Erik found the socket head bolts that I wanted for the T/C and cut them to fit.

The brass petcock will have a hose attached to drain easily if needed (hopefully never!!). That is the Triumph petcock originally designed to fit on the right side of the block.
 
Awesome engine! jeez - now I have to put on my shades just to look at your posts :laugh: Wait a minute - there's a speck of dust on your ..... forget it, a gnat on my screen ...

Paul - did you ever settle that tri-carb throttle linkage issue (delay?) you were dealing with a while back?

Tom
 
Paul-

Wow. I need to quit peeking at this stuff during work hours, those pics are so sexy I'm afraid they will set off the company web filters.

Great looking battery holdown setup too.

Randy
 
Flinkly said:
i see fingerprints on your timing cover...
Click to expand...

(check your screen ...) :jester:

T.
 
Two actually and some water spots from the damp paper towel used to wipe off dust. But we are far from the final detail stage, so plenty of time to catch up.

Did you notice that the top three nuts on the transmission are loose as well? I think that Erik does that to see if I'm paying attention.
 
Awsome Paul!! Colorful too!!!!!

Tinkerman
 
OMG! Paul

You could eat off that thing!!!

beautiful job!

I wish I had the Time, Money & Patients to do all that!

maybe when I get that AH3000 I've been dreaming about!
 
Looking good Paul.
You still have time to fuel inject it though :wink:
 
Alan,

I can't get a lawyer in time for injection.
 
Added shots of:

New oil line to gauge and fitting on block and throttle shaft, bushing and locking collar

Stainless water pipe under manifold

Steering shaft reassembled after bushings in column replaced

Distributor pedestal, fuel pump & throttle shaft/collar

Alternator and water outlet going together :yesnod:
 
You sure that firing order is right?


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Nicely done, Paul.
 
Unless I missed something it's 1-5-3-6-2-4?

What did I miss?
 
Searcher,

I've been pretty lucky with them (knock on wood), but they were rebuilt by Jeff Palya at Micropolishing, LLC and I installed an NGK Air Fuel ratio meter that allows some pretty nice tweaking of the needles.

Plus my distributor is A-1 and that is half the battle with these cars as they get older and more mileage racked up.

Alan wants me to go as a fuelie, I like the motorcycle carbs, but this is reality, so neither of those is happening for quite some time.
 
<div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Quote:] What did I miss? [/QUOTE]

Nuttin' honey, I wuz just bein' snarky.

...I went outside and kicked th' Alfa right after seein' your pix, BTW. :smirk:
 
I was gonna submit a suggestion.

Have you considered the Champion style spark plug connectors.

They mount where the wires would be going in at an angle, instead of straight down to the plugs. Cleans up the wire routing appearance in my opinion. Think they would go nicely with the cap angle terminals.

I also moved my coil over onto the footwell by the wiper motor. I have found that to be cooler place for the coil to run, and less vibration.

Then one other suggestion, where that cable sheath is routing by the foot well, from the picture it appears to be possibly rubbing against the edge of the footwell, might consider a rubber cushion(piece of hose, etc.) there.

And these comments are no way detracting from the appearance of that beautiful motor. Just trying to go from an A+ to an A++.
 
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