Yeah, an old timer or an old alignment shop (even better if they’re the same) are the only ones that don’t even bat an eye when I bring in my old cars for alignment. 

My calendar is also correct.

Today i took a picture of my engine to my vw man thats all  he does  rebuild engines.His main interest is volkswagon and porchse .He said to bring the car to him in the spring and he will check it out to see what it needs . Hard to tell from picture ,but it looks like alot of modificatons have been so mavbe it doesnt need bottom tin.

I found a shop open weekends that will work on my chevette front end.  It’s still hard for me to capitalize chevette.   Hmmm,  what was the builder thinking?  Chevy 283 bored out, Turbo 400 transmission, Nissan 260Z rear end, and chevette front end???????

 When my Chevette powered f/f needed to be done the service writer also said it could not be done I went back and talked to an older tech he said give me that car he had it done ,,when got back not a trouble ever since that was 4 years ago . the only thing i can say is talk to the tech they know more than a service writer  GOOD LUCK  Dan.

This makes me nostalgic for my first car, a 1967 Bug.  But I was young and sold it, thinking I was moving up to a four door Datsun, after having the motor rebuilt and body repaired after it was hit by a Land Cruiser on a rainy dark night.  What a mistake that was to let it go.  Had company sedans for 15 years (boring) and then minivans and Ford Ta…[Read more]

I’m adding a second oil cooling unit, so with that, the dog house, added tin and virtually a brand new motor, I hope she runs problem free for a long time.

Cool options Ray10 but I like my steering wheel (however those are pretty tempting).  I’m thinking my steering column may need to be shortened.  I’ll just have to wait and see once I get the seats in.

Rocky  if you want a new steering wheel check out raptor Steering wheels ,

Royal I saved the old link to td  site ;

The cooling shroud on the car when I bought it was a cheap, no frills version that we don’t think did a good job of distrbuting air.  I bought the dog house because it has the internal fins (blades?) to direct air better.  I’ll ask about the fan for it tonight when I go home.

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MGLR didn’t you already have doghouse cooling?  (I am having some difficulty finding old posts due to my advancing years.)  If you did not, then you need to get a larger fan and an offset bracket for the oil cooler. 

On the Forum home page,

Where or how do you access that?

I picked up a dog house housing for my current rebuild.  I feel it is much better than the old one that was on there.

TO: MGLondon, sure   you can come by sometime I am free most days. You better be carefull with an 1800cc VW! I had a ’63 VW when I was in Germany and it was fast with only 1200cc. They used to sell an auxillary cooling unit for bored out VW dune buggys because the cylinder walls get thin and heat up like an old pontiac.   TO Ringo: I will try to…[Read more]

Quoting Royal in an earlier post:

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“Quote: It has to do with separating the airflow from the hot areas at the bottom of the engine and the cooler air coming into the fan intake.”

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“Cool!”   Greg, I realize that you live in NY and probably wonder why this is important.  I lived there (NY) long enough to know that the asphalt roads get super hot in the summer and that reflects right up onto the engine.  Cheap insurance.   

I’m working with my mechanic who is rebuilding my engine and he will be custom fabricating some metal sheeting to go between the muffler and the engine to keep heat out.