My 26T Coupe build thread

[roadster32]

More great looking detail work on top of the engine Steve!!!! Thanks for the inspiration, keeps all of us on are toes!!!!

Thanks Dave, appreciate the comments

[pat mccarthy]

looks good i have a basket case gibson l6 guitar rose wood board .looking at the grover machines and SD hummbucker pick ups the body is malpe thats pulling apart i think i gooing to break it at the glue joints and re use the old body .i have a new body that was made out of mahogany so i have pick ups machines two body and a neck that in very nice shape .i can not play but that not stoping me .. i thinking the guitar is were i want to be at small bit of paint work .wire work . some machine work .wood work. and when done will piss the neighbors off just like a old car

[Itoldyouso]

Very nice Steve, but you are going to be catching it from Sue for raiding her craft supplies. I thought I was high tech when I drilled and tapped some dice for knobs on my car..........then you have to come along and make me realize what a hack I reallly am.

Don

[roadster32]

Very nice Steve, but you are going to be catching it from Sue for raiding her craft supplies. I thought I was high tech when I drilled and tapped some dice for knobs on my car..........then you have to come along and make me realize what a hack I reallly am.

Don

Finished it today Don

[stovens]

Once again nicely done Steve.

[roadster32]

Once again nicely done Steve.

Thanks mate, I'm well pleased how it came out.

[roadster32]

Well with the willys tucked up for the winter i managed to get back onto this project, been doing bits on it over the last couple of months but nothing worth posting, a lot of the time has been taken up in machining and porting & polishing the heads, they are away being bead blasted and then i can paint them.

The short motor is now together but i didn't take any pics as it boring stuff like gapping the rings etc etc.

Brief rundown of the spec is smoothed and polished crank, MTS H beam rods that were polished & shot peened and magnafluxed and fitted with ARP bolts, Pistons are KB hypereutetic and give 9.5-1 CR, Rings are Total Seal moly plasma. All were fully balanced.



I picked up a new water pump and removed all the various lumps & bumps and generally smoothed it all off, Then it got 2 coats of black Epoxy primer and 3 coats of 2K Moneyshot colour.



The steel shaft stub of the water pump boss stuck out slightly so a small rounded cover was added to the cover plate, only a small thing but it looks a lot tidier now.



































Oh and i made an interior mirror stalk to match the door mirrors, just needs a quick polish.

















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[stovens]

One could eat off that engine, it's so clean!

[roadster32]

One could eat off that engine, it's so clean!

Your not eating off my engine ya mucky boy


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[Dave Severson]

Your not eating off my engine ya mucky boy :LOL

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Yeah, whatchathinkin' ? Intake manifolds stain really easy if you don't wash them right away!!!!!

[Bob Parmenter]

Tomato sauce on the intake is the worst................probably too acidic..........

[stovens]

Now Jack you can love your engine, just NOT LOVE your engine!

[roadster32]

I knew there was something odd about Jack !!!

Now Jack you can love your engine, just NOT LOVE your engine!

[roadster32]

I didn't think i had taken any pics of the heads but found these on my I phone so excuse the quality.



What I started with, pretty crusty !!!













After blending & fettling















With a coat of rattle can primer to see how they look



















The heads have had a lot of work comprising of a full port and polish of the ports, chambers & valve throats, Also the pushrod holes have been opened up to 5/8" for the thicker pushrods and bigger valves fitted with uprated valve springs and teflon stem seals.

The AIR ports have been drilled and blocked off with NPT pipe plugs to avoid tubelence.

[lamin8r]

I knew there was something odd about Jack !!!

Definitely sumthin about these Washington folk...hmmm