Not had much of an update recently, but that doesn't mean we haven't been busy finishing off some of the last jobs.
Got some stainless bits, and went about knocking up the section of downpipe we needed, we ended up just tacking all the parts together in the right place with stainless arc sticks and dropping it off to have it welded up properly, also used a bit of the old coolant pipe and a stainless boss to put the coolant temp sensor in to make the temperature guage work.




Got it heatwrapped, and fitted, i also learned of my hatred for heatwrap, i think i need to just burn my clothes now that they are ingrained with that horrid itchy shit!

Now that it could run without annoying everyone in the neighbourhood, it was time to put some fresh oil in and get it warmed up, everything actually went surprisingly smoothley, just needing a couple of hose clips nipping up on the coolant pipes, i just used ordinary 10w40 semi synthetic to try and flush out anything that might have been hanging around in the engine or coolers. i then dropped the oil again and blew out as much as i could from the coolers, after fitting a new oil filter and topping back up it was good to run for a few miles before getting another oil and filter change to a better synthetic 10w50. Im hoping a better oil will cut down on a very slight chatter coming from the distributor pulley area, the oil pressure looks ok right from the first couple of seconds after it starts, right through to warming up fully, so i'm hoping the a higher viscosity oil will just help a little.