In reply to RichardSIA :
Nice!
In reply to RichardSIA :
Nice!
The "Fun" part is going to be painting the inside of the frame head.
Siphon gun with a right angle head did a pretty good job for painting inside the frame head.
It is not made for that but worked pretty well.
Now that I have to leave the chassis alone for a few days I am back to smaller projects.
Today I port-matched my intake manifolds.
They had a step at the top of the port where the intake manifold was smaller than the head port.
This was crescent moon type of mis-match, the bottom was fine.
I marked the manifold face with a sharpie, then used a sharp U shaped scribe to reach into the port and scribe my line for an exact match.
I used the boring bar on my vertical mill to bore each branch of the manifolds.
Ports are nearly a perfect match now but I still have to do some blending.
Body rotisserie is almost ready for use.
It will be ugly but functional.
This will allow me to do body work without killing my back.
I hope it will also let me do the paint off the chassis, but maybe not as there is some flex to keep in mind.
After realizing just how much "Fun" assembling the rear hubs will be I decided to turn a scrap stub-axle into a tool.
I turned down the inner bearing shoulder on my lathe so that the bearing just drops on.
I no longer need a press to get it apart.
Now I may use it to easily mock up my Scirocco caliper disc-brake conversion.
They are light aluminum and let me keep a parking brake.
Repair of gel-coat star cracks and edge delamination has begun on the front and rear covers.
Using epoxy with medium speed hardener which is working well for me so far.
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