Greetings . . .
The past summer and fall have been pretty productive for me in terms of the garage . . .
The engine went back between the frame rails over a year ago now. I have since been bolting on goodies and working on details:
Several things bothered me about what was taking shape here. First the passenger side of the engine was looking pretty plain jane. Secondly, the CAW valve cover has just the oil filler cap for venting. This had me worried that condensation would be trapped underneath – when compared to the air circulation offered by the many vents found along the roof of the stock valve cover.
So I decided to go for several of the Offenhauser breathers. But a test fit led to me to believe that they would have looked sort of stupid when just bolted onto the valve cover . . . like an afterthought.
Instead I fitted them to an aluminum strip:
I pinstriped the strip using a muted brown flat enamel:
and then masked and painted the mounting flanges on the breathers as well:
making it appear more like an assembly.
As you can see in that last photo – the center breather interferes with the stock coil location:
there’s no room for the cap!
So I made another bracket from C channel so that coil could be fitted on the firewall rib:
All in all things are really beginning to take shape under the hood:
More to come. Next post will be in drive train.
regards,
stock49
