78 Kadett C Saloon - V8 turbo.

Thanks for all your comments guys they are much appreciated! ;D

Some more progress to day

I went to the tyre garage to get some new tyres on my wheels this morning



Then made my way to the workshop to get on with fitting them like a giddy school girl

Rear end in the air and on axle stands



Inner arches looked better than expected



While i was fitting the wheels i thought it would be rude not to get the slam stick out and give it a beating

Rears done



Then annoyingly it got dark - however slam stick results were good!





What do you think?











I forgot to mention at the beginning that the car came with a mounty steering wheel and a selection of TIM guages - i like the guages but not the wheel so much





And a couple of the other side if you haven't seen enough already







And finally two moody ones





After finishing the wheels i headed inside to continue with the engine mounts.

Firstly (as with the other side) i began to cut and profile the bars for the inner triangulation











Once i was happy with the bars i cleaned off the rough edges ready for welding





cleaned off



Tacked in place



Then began welding it in properly





I then began cleaning off some of the welds ready for then triangulation to the rubber engine mounts







And the two from above





Thanks for looking more to come soon

Tell me about it lol!

Greetings good people!

I had a couple of spare hours after work tonight so i got on with the inlet manifold.

I started with this



I needed to lower the edge closest in the pic so the plate sat flush with the plenum



So i removed this pesky beast and did some more fettling



Getting there





Turning my attention to the manifold its self i removed this water way as it was in the way



i will address this mess later



With that out of the way i could linish the manifold flat and to the required angle



As so



Allowing the plenum sit like this







Getting fed up of holding it i decided to zip tie it in place so i could take some better pics and a few measurements



I'm happy with the way it is sitting now

Looking really good - I really enjoy following some nice engineer!

GOTTA LOVE A HOME BUILT ENGINE

reckon the rear wheels would look beter with some spacers ,.

/\ your correct thats the guy and his daughter i brought it from...small world!

That looks so good that you could turn a Ford man to the darkside ;-)

Now thats a true compliment ;D

Thanks Curryracer i would be interested to see what your up to with yours!

I've made a small amount of progress with the manifold however i have been working on my 944 today so i haven't had any time for the Kadett

Manifold progress

I machined this edge off to help the air flow inside the manifold



Then chopped off the excess Ali from the back plate (annoyingly my plasma needs a new tip so it was a pita to cut up neatly)



And neatened it up a little - nearly ready for welding!