Bill Eisinger
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Well, under the category of “2 steps forward and 1 step back” we encountered a few issues that needed to be rectified. It’s a long story but, when doing the structural work for the car, my body/paint guy pretty much ignored the notebook full of pictures and procedures (supplied by DanR) and did his own thing in setting up the engine location and position…short story was that the nose of the engine was raised almost 2 inches higher than DanR’s design which created a whole myriad of problems that are subject to another discussion. We didn’t really discover the impact of this until we had the engine in…So, out came the engine and we re-fabbed the engine mounts and got them into proper location. Upon dropping the engine back in, it was then discovered that the crank pulley would not clear the cross member…it’s a bit of a mystery as to why…I’m thinking that I’m perhaps using a bit larger crank pulley than others have used plus it’s a double pulley (for the air conditioner) so that exacerbates the issue. Out came the plasma torch and welder and we went to town on the cross brace putting a notch in it….it’s not the most beautiful welding in the world but, thankfully, it’s pretty much all hidden when the engine is installed. Next week we’ll put the engine back in and see if we can keep moving the ball forward!
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