1/5/07

I got nothing. I managed to waste yesterday’s rant with inanities about Matilda and George but I'm not sure I'm going to be able to do it again. I did remember something else I did over the long weekend. Remember how John made a plate for the distributor in George? Well, it didn’t really have enough adjustment before the vacuum canister hit the cylinder head. I had a look at removing said canister but had no luck. I went back and had a look at the plate itself. I noticed that he had it on upside down. “Well there’s the problem,” I thought and flipped it over. Yeah, it won’t work that way. John was right, as usual. On a whim I grabbed the other plate that we had and gave it a try. It appeared as though it would allow for more adjustment. Of course I'd need to file away some metal to clearance it for the bolt securing it to the distributor. I did that and gave it a test fit. Much better. I filed a little more to get as much arc as possible and “installed” it. So, to make a short story long, thanks again for making that plate last weekend John, but I'm not going to use it after all. I had another thought or two about that car’s carburetor. If that SU I bought on e-Bay turns out to be no good, I could use that SU to DGV adapter and run a Weber 32/36 or make another adapter and run, wait for it, that 40 mm DCOE! Actually, the DCOE would be my first choice and here’s what I had in mind. Now, this is really a long shot because I'm going from memory here. What I have in mind is using half of that dual DCOE manifold for an A-series engine bolted to the tube thingy I built for running the SU. The big question is how do the flanges line up? The more I think about it, the less likely I think it is workable. So, what I need to do is sacrifice both the DCOE manifold and the SU to DGV adapter and have the SU flange welded to the A-series head end of the two DCOE runners. I kind of wish I'd thought of this before adding the Ullom hole in the hood to clear the SU dashpot. Hell, there’s reason enough to make the SU work! I have to justify that hole in the hood. Of course the 32/36 might just come out right under that hole and I could say it was a cold air intake for it. We’ll see. I just had yet another thought about the DCOE. I really wouldn’t need to sacrifice the dual DCOE A-series manifold. I could just make my own from mild steel. The one from the SU to the turbo is mild steel why not continue the trend? I'd need to buy another jumping up and down saw to make the flanges though. Or, I could buy a tabletop band saw. As many things as I cut out of flat plate and sheet, I think I could use one. It’s a thought. Well, I think I'm just about talked out for the week. I'll be back at it on Monday and hopefully will have more to report.