Yesterday I started turning some spanners, and well, an angle grinder, a burr and eventually a cold chisel.
It's a bit over two years since the last time the car ran and it wasn't torn down after it's last meet.
I put the hoist together, I managed to drop a piece of it on the tail, that's no big deal I'll be painting it again anyway. Some of the Allen heads were frozen solid, they're a neat thing that are fast to remove, when they are in good condition. When they aren't the mechanical advantage that the thread has over the shallow hex drive means they shit themselves in a hurry, yep stainless ones, they'd be nice...but they're softer and even less reliable.
So I got the tail off, there was a homeless guy living in there, we sat around and talked for a bit, actually it was a bunch of leaf litter and some dust admittedly I was pretty tired.
I hoisted the water tank and unbolted the scatter-shield, the job at hand was to measure the motor and see how it compares to the Dripps motor. From the top the motor is pretty much a 560mm square and it fits within 800mm in height.
I get an email from our man in Preston...
So , rough dimensions
from the back face of the block to the front of the block, 440 mm
front face of the block to the end of the water pump pulley, 180mm ( the
water pump has a 30 mm spacer on it that we might be able to lose)
the other thing about the water pump on a chev is that it is almost an
after thought bolted on the front of the block. we could run an electric
pump
front face of the block to the front of the bottom pulley, 210mm
total length 650mm
the center line of the crank shaft is level with the bottom face of the
block unlike the commodore motor
bottom face of the block to the bottom of the sump 180mm
bottom face of the block the the top of the injectors 590mm ( this
doesn't allow for an air gap above the injector hats)
Total height 770mm
rocker cover to rocker cover is 670mm
should've measured rocker crank center line to rocker cover. tomorrow if
i get a chance
engine mounts
they are a plate on the front face of the block
the mounting holes are about 265mm each side of the center line of the
crank and about 130 mm above the center line of the crank
We may still have to make the car longer
G
On the face of it we will have to add some blisters to the cowl to fit the heads in.
An electric water pump will ease the space at the front but we have the dry sump pump there too and it won't be moving. We have a good 150mm at the front of the motor and I'm confident that we can get the Chev in without adding any length to the car but we won't be able to do a belt change. Having said that it would not be difficult, and it will likely be necessary to make the firewall (or part of it) removable in order to access the front of the motor..
more later.......