Can’t tell from this angle, but would the fan you need fit behind the grill after you push the rad a half inch forward? And will the rad still fit inside the grill shell? I wonder if a shorter water pump might not be the easier solution….

Adding lightness…

It’s flux wire and it’s a new (to me) unit. I’ll get it dialed-in, don’t worry.

In my experience, tarps hammock in the rain and then leak. To make a leak-resistant (note I don’t say “leak-proof”) tarp system you have to tent them in a A-frame configuration. Any loose area that’s even slightly near horizontal will become a rain collector and then leak.

Five hours in the shop today and I almost made a new cross bar.

Wait till I get into the actual build, right?

Good news!

Look forward to following your car-building adventure.

BTW, Jack, here’s what your engine should look like (sans the cone air filters, of course!)

Spare tire mount is coming along.

Mine is “boxes that stuff came in, Ver. 1.1.”

Dang. Try this one.

How the shifter works with the spare tire

Bending metal, boys. All in the service of making the spare tire fit just right.

Transaxle is back.

Also did a guide coat on the inner clam last night. Not bad, but still needs a full sand-down and maybe one or two more trips with the filler.

By the way, those irregular little humps running in the valleys are bogus “weld fillets,” which are period-correct and will remain.

Man, I do like the look of a nice raw aluminum high rise dual-plane intake.

Good methodology.

Mine’s crooked the opposite way, fwiw. I fooled with it a bit when widening the fenders last winter but I don’t think there’s a slick way to make the adjustment.

I moved the bottom fender attachment points around a little (the bolt holes were already a bit big) and tightened them down as well as I could, taking care to not…[Read more]

Transaxle comes back Saturday. I plan to have this all primered-up by then.

Because Race Car!