Came in to get out of the heat.
I’ll let you guys in on a little problem that my choices have led to. I really did want the pentroof look on this engine. I have a set of Jays coil racks and I thought if we mounted the coil racks on the inside of the vc’s it would look great and be functional. So, as you remember Jay told me he thought he could get the pentroofs to fit next to my mc. He has a VC that he has reshaped in order to get clearance. He sent that to me and I did measurements and pics and sent the lot back to Jay to have him carve up a new set of vc’s. It worked great. Here’s a pic of the new vc with no gasket.
Jay sunk some holes in it in order to mount the coil racks to. In order to clear the bolt housings on the VC exterior he also made some spacers.
Cool right? One problem, when I set them on there they wouldn’t go into place because they ran into that sweet manifold adaptor. Crap. Yes you could do some easy mill work and get rid of the upper edge but that would require taking the adapter off and this engine ain’t coming back apart again until after it runs.
So, I designed some adapters that would let me slide the racks up the VC a little, and since the hood is up there I put an angle in them that will hopefully keep everything underneath.
Had to add another 1/4 inch worth of spacing to make everything play together.
Still have some tweaking to do but here they are installed. Nothin’s easy when you’re building custom but we’re getting there.
As you can see I’ve adapted GT FE as the theme for this deal. Shady has made me up a set of rocker stickers to replace the GT 350 deals.
Never liked sportin’ something it ain’t.