There are some great Minor's on here built in different styles so I'll add mine to the mix. Bought this last year to go to some events in and to put my mark on it with a few updates.
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This is how it looked when I got it.
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I had to replace the rocker cover gaskets as they were leaking. So I re-polished the covers/ oil filler cap and replaced the T bolts with stainless cap heads. I replaced the old SU breather with a proper chrome PCV valve ( this had not been done when the SU's were replaced with the Offy / Edelbrock 500 ) and fitted a K&N type breather to the other cover to replace the old flame trap. I have also replaced the header bolts with new polished stainless cap heads and will replace the other old bolts with stainless as I go. I have replaced the old 9" filter with a new 14" K&N and fitted some chrome plug lead clamps.
Starting the engine bay changes.
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Well it all came to a grinding halt last June with a serious illness in the family, so car events and messing with cars stopped. The Moggy sat in the garage untouched for the next 8 or 9 months till things had settled down and I had the time and felt like working on it. Family comes first, cars are just big toys.
With this years Kit car show and Drayton Manor nearly here I decided to tidy up the rad header tank and also move it over about an inch and down a little so the hose was nearer the wing.After removing all the old paint the surface was full of deep scratches and vice grip marks which took a lot of work to clean up. I cleaned up the bracket and made some polished ally plates for the top and front of it. Polished up the can and fitted it with new stainless bolts and dome nuts and extended the hose for a neater finish.
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Trial fit of the polished header tank.
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Then moved over to its new position with extension to the hose to tidy it up.
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That done, time to move on to the next part of the engine bay tidy up.
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Next job was to polish up the stainless rad support brackets and start to make a cover for the rad top and a shroud above the fans
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Changed the chrome PCV breather for a smaller ally breather which looks a lot better.
Also replaced the painted bolts around the body panels with new stainless button heads which I polished.The bonnet safety catch was also polished up to remove the old paint.
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