hooked up the electric fuel pump, door pulls (from Beck) and the cool-air duct today
my goal is to have the car running and sorted by August 19th, we have a yearly "cruise night" that Friday
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Nice clean looking motor bay, what did you use on the walls?
Looks good. Your drain vent seems a bit small though.
I've been thinking of using that Diner stuff with the diamond shapes if I can ever find any.
Alan, it's .083 aluminum with bed-liner
Will...Can you send me a photo of the door pulls you got from Beck when you have them installed ? ....Thanks....Bruce
How big is the vent, Will? That is a neat slotted cover, btw. Where did you get it? Is it available in other sizes?
I think this one would interchange and look very cool!
ALB posted:How big is the vent, Will? That is a neat slotted cover, btw. Where did you get it? Is it available in other sizes?
This one looks like it's close:
The vent looks suspiciously like the drain vent for my downspout drains. 4" diameter and made from ABS plastic (or PVC, one of the two).
Looks nice but if add up the sq inch of actual solid material ( 40% - 50%) vs. actual open area, quite a bit of restricted air flow . 1/4" hardware cloth is best.
Al, the drain is ABS for outdoor plumbing, 4" aluminum/corrugated dryer vent fit perfectly
Alan, can't handle hardware cloth in the engine compartment, that's what Kirk had over the hole in the wood firewall. I have 1/4" hardware cloth at the entrance. I may Dremel out the grate but I'm going to wait and to see how the engine does first.
Rusty, my piece was under $4 at a hardware store...
Bruce, I'm heading to the shop, I'll take a photo.
It's an attractive alternative but I'd go look for an 8"or 10" vent before putting the motor back in...Why do it twice?
Come'on guys....Why is what "looks good" (especially for the better part of a fifty dollar bill!!!) even being considered?...who the hell is even going to see it?...huh?!
Bill's sensible solution: an 8" hole covered with two bucks worth the wire screen from Home Depot does the job.
Bruce, here's a couple photos of the Beck door pulls
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and to all the "engineers" who know more than Porsche and VW engineers...
...the original Porsche motors for these cars had no external oil coolers or external air intakes and ran for many trouble-free miles, I know, I owned two of them ('58 cabriolet and '59 coupe).
So, as I've said (diplomatically) before, in this thread, we'll just have to wait and see...
Will, nor did they have 2.0+cc's.
What size is your motor?
Bill, one last time:
"So, as I've said (diplomatically) before, in this thread, we'll just have to wait and see..."
Roger That.
You should post it for sale, Will. Then we could ALL jump on you-- call you names, and stuff.
Re: .083 Aluminum: I've got half my car made out of this stuff-- oil tank, giant breather, access panels, all manner of stuffage. .083 is nice and thick (like 16 ga cold-rolled steel, but way lighter), and TIGs up nicely. It's thick enough to be substantial, and thin enough to weigh half of nothing.
I also love truck-bed liner, and have used it for pretty much everything in my engine compartment and trunk.
I picked up another piece of aluminum and finished sealing the engine compartment this week.
took out the fiberglass piece VS screws onto the 2" cross-member because it ended 1/2" to 1" from the rear apron of the car and used auto door weatherstripping (one side slides onto the aluminum, the other side is a 5/8" round bulb) on the rear edge of the aluminum to seal the rear of the compartment.
the vertical bulkheads/interior fender skirting Kirk uses have a large hole, roughly 8"x 8" which don't meet the rear apron so I cut aluminum for both sides and used the same weatherstripping and gasket sealer to seal them, it got fancy coping around the taillight canisters...
motor's going in either tomorrow or Monday, might actually be on the road by the end of next week, it's only been 11 months since I purchased the car, good thing all I was doing is replacing the motor, not building a car...
I very rarely post here anymore, but this one may have an elegant solution. Perhaps cutting down a headlight grille would look and function better, both for air flow/volume and for aesthetics?
I have one, kind of bent up a bit, which I'll happily straighten out and subsequently donate. E-mail me for details?
-- Cory