Austin gasser to respectable street rod

Love the awsome look of those BBI crate motors!

  

That is a very nice looking engine Clay,say what is the horseradish mustard like? never seen it over here..

Tesco and Sainsbury sell it up here Nigel

Cheers for that Colin.

It appears to have worked.....with a little effort.
I will now reveal the secret ingredient I used for the headlight covers. Remember, I had to french them because I had no 40 Ford rims?. I didn't want them flat. I discounted clear plastic spoons for being too thick. I blew $6 to give these fake fingernails a try. They have a slight pinkish cast, but I can live with that! Probably there is something neater and easier out there, but as Tina Turner says in 'Proud Mary', " I never do anything nice, and easy"
  

Clever, and it was expecting LED's...but clever.
- and I see the body has a metallic sheen!

Neat idea Clay, thanks for sharing.

And the magic in building, paint and improvisation just keeps coming !!!!!

Great idea. Something I would never have thought of. Looking great Clay.

Roll in' Roll in' Roll in' down the river
Big wheels keep on turnin'  

great job so far   

Geezerman wrote:You can see the post sticking up right at the top of the water pump assembly.
My intake plate has a distributor hole behind the riser.  That's why I'm going to the back with it.
The front has a alt. at the lower right. I don't rightly know what that round thing in front of the left valve cover is supposed to represent. I don't mind  'imagineering', so whatever it is .... I'll leave it and pretend it's an automatic tranny shifter or something. Maybe I can pretend its a fuel block and plumb the carbs to it ?

Clay, not that it matters (it's a model after all), but in US V8s the deepest part of the oil pan holds the oil pump which runs off the same drive as the distributor. The hole in the intake manifold should be in the front of the engine with a distributor stuck in it. The bumps on the valve cover was the oil filler. The real engine had a big timing chain running over the front so they couldn't use the regular oil filler tube that came out of the front of the engine near the distributor. My guess is that the model company just used a standard water pump front cover assembly that had an oil filler tube and then made the SOHC heads and valve covers and called it done.

OBTW, brilliant work. Glad you went with the bronze over the primer.

Nice. The finished chassis in the background rocks also.

All that in less than a month folks....I'd still be sanding and filling the body !

Clay, this one looks fantastic. Can't wait to see it all together. Buck is right, that chassis in the background looks great. The stance is perfect.

Looks right powr-FULL! Thanx for the updates, my router died and have been using other sources lately. Glad to catch up on this build, thanx!