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Showing off my new project

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Jedi Knight
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This is the 1958 Sprite I just went to Ft Myers Flordia to get. and yes the car was misrepresented. But how can you not love a bug eye. So now I have two 1958 Sprites to work on at the same time. this one is close enough to orginal to make a mini-restored driver out of for my wife.


this is the other 1958 I got a month ago, it has been butchered up to bad to put back orginal, plus its gonna be a lot of fun with 400 horse power


Back to the real sprite

this one hood opens correctly, the red one tilts forward, I can see why people have changed them


this is with hood up so you can see years of rearranging wires & stuff


this shows, what I was told was a Weber carb set up, looks like an updated set of manifolds too. I was told this was a 1275 cc motor. Is this set up a keeper? After 5 years of sitting I am sure it will need reworking. so need to know if it is worth messing with

 
The car was very hard to push..brake linings against drums? so I figured the first move was to pulled the wheels and redo brake system,from master cylinder to brake pads new or rebuilt as needed. what ever is needed to get brakes A-1.

But i got to thinking before I invested money and time in front brakes I have been told to install later model disc brakes on front.....Is this as easy as it sounds. can someone post a good "link" to what I will need and what must be done to make it all work properly..or is there a Hi-performance aftermarket set up I should consider. I will be doing this to both Sprites
 
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