A big day in the restoration. I invited some friends over to the house and installed the body on the chassis. This went much easier than I expected with only onesmall mistake. Since the TTR chassis does not come with the mounting holes pre-drilled we needed to mark and drill the 16mounting holes. All of them line up except the one that goes into the left front shock tower. The hole is about a...
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Monthly Archives: July 2003
Engine In
Temporarily installed the header to check for clearance. Everything clears, so now I’ll send it off to be ceramic coated. Spent some time today mounting the engine and gearbox into the chassis. A very important thing to remember is which side of the engine the spacers go. I had the mounts and spacers in a bag all nice and labeled. I took the bits out of the bag, yesterday, and set them on the...
Last of the Engine Updates ( I hope)
Brought the engine home and put it in the garage. My wife made the observation that this was the first time in over a year that all the parts of the car were under the same roof.