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Went down to the FedEx terminal after work and picked up my new motor! Made good use of the borrowed trailer and my engine hoist, got everything safely stored in the garage. It will have to sit for a while until I get the rest of the car in order. The engine looks absolutely fantastic. If it runs even close to how it looks, it's going to be fantastic.

Everything arrived safe and sound -- Hap really knows how to simply and safely ship a motor.
 

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No fooling around now, get with it.
 
Weather's too nice, Jack, to be in the garage. Got to be outside until it gets too cold. I've got all winter to get it back together (got to like a nicely insulated garage). For now it sits nice and snug in the garage.
 
Yeah, Fed Ex called me yesterday, the fork lift guy jotted your number down wrong, and they celld got your correct number from me. I asked them was it there already, and they said yeah, told me it would be 5 service days, considering I dropped it Monday at 7:30pm, and you got it there Thursday morning, I'm impressed.

As for the the bracketry I make to bolt the engine to the pallet you could very easily cut the excess off from the side that run out to the end of the pallet, adn weld them along the sides, and turn it into a engine stand, even get some castors for it make it where it can roll.

Drew glad it is back home, thank you for the opportunity to build it for you, I hope it brings you many miles of pleasure.
 
Looks really good sitting there ready to go in Drew!! If it were I, the itching to get it in would be unbearable, good weather or not!! Take a bit of time and do a clean-up on the tranny too before mating it to that little beauty! Are you going to paint the tranny green too? My personal preferrence is the natural look! I cleaned mine up real good and then squirted it with aluminum puff-can paint...looks brand new, even if most of it will be hidden in the tunnel!! :thumbsup: :cheers:
 
Hap Waldrop said:
As for the the bracketry I make to bolt the engine to the pallet you could very easily cut the excess off from the side that run out to the end of the pallet, and weld them along the sides, and turn it into a engine stand, even get some castors for it make it where it can roll.
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I'm planning on doing that exact thing, Hap. I need a stand/storage for the old 948 anyways, so this works out nicely. It's been a pleasure working with you as well. The quality of the work is quite obvious, even just at a quick look over from the outside.

bugimike said:
Take a bit of time and do a clean-up on the tranny too before mating it to that little beauty! Are you going to paint the tranny green too?
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I've got 2 ribcase trannys to choose from -- the one that came with the motor, and another that I picked up recently. I've got to go through them and figure out which is in better shape, then I'll get it cleaned up. Haven't put much thought into color for it, that's a decision for another day.
 
If the natural look on the tranny is what you're shooting for, and it won't clean up, often time the caes becomes quite stain and waon't clean up. After you have taken the time to degrease the case, you can use Dupli Color cast coat aluminum hi heat engine paint, it look exactly like fresh cast aluminum, I use it on tranny cases and intake manifolds, it looks awesome. It's the same color as is on the pulley on the engine and few of the small bolt on pieces. Drew, those pulley bolts are just good and snug, as I knew you were going to switch to the early single groove water pump pulley. I send your oil filter set up with your carbs in a few weeks. Hollar if you need anyhting or have any question, I sent you a start up sheet in the snail mail, hopefully you got that as well.
 
Agree with Hap on the colour, I used it on the Datsun, intake and cylinder head and it looks great.
 
Excellent! A fitting prelude to the final chapter which will be installation and driving gratification.

Drew, pick up a box of the large sized heavy duty plastic bags and a bungee long enough to go around the bottom. The bungee is reusable and the exta bags for replacements if needed when you open it up to admire (inspiration), and show it off to visitors when the opportunity presents.

Ray
 
mccalebr said:
Drew, pick up a box of the large sized heavy duty plastic bags and a bungee long enough to go around the bottom.
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Should I put a bag over it for storage? It's going to be sitting pretty much where it is for a few months while I finish up the other mechanical bits. I don't expect to be installing the motor until March-ish. Anything I need to to until then? It looks like Hap has all the openings taped off now, but I don't want any issues from a few month's hiatus.
 
I think John Belushi said it best in Animal House....."ROAD TRIP!" :laugh: What say a bunch of us swarm on over and git-r-done?! LOL :smile:
 
Now that is what I call a great delivery, nothing better than waiting on a car part order, then you slap it in and have to wait for the next one. This one should keep you busy.

Mark
 
You might want to check with Hap, but if you put a bag over it you should probably include something that draws moisture away like silica packs. Otherwise you're going to get rust on the bare metal parts.
 
I had several of the metal boxes with the holes in the side and silica gel inside that are used primarily in gun safes; popped one into the bag before sealing. I kept the bag on a new engine I had purchased and later sold for over a year with no ill effects...and it looked like the day I put the bag on it (clean).

Those little cans of silica are hady...if the crystals turn pink they have absorbed moisture. You simply place the entire can in the oven for an hour or two and when removed all the moisture has been removed.

Ray
 
Yeah I'd bag it, or cover it with a sheet or blanket anyway, just to keep the dust off it, they are really no bare metal bits on it from the exterior, either it painted, aluminum, or plated fastners, just don't anywhere that big slty lake you guys got out there :smile: I would recommend you turn it over by hand every once in a while, maybe a squirt of wd40 in the spark plug hole, then put the spark plug back in, just make sure you turn it about once a month or so. It pretty sealed up, but I saw a guy one time let a new motor sieze up sitting in garage, now he probably had no plugs in it, but I like to never got those rings off the pistons, they rust welded to the pistons.
 
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