New covers will look good!

 

Very nice

 

I hope so! These are what I have to polish up:

 

Thanks!

 

It's gorgeous weather and warm in the old canopy!
Got the headers back on, and exhaust hooked up. Set the radiator and mounts in place, and hooked up all the hoses; ready for coolant. Spent an hour or more trying to find the stupid fan belt! How does this stuff run off and hide? I bet I found 7-8 various belts hanging in the garage, and none of them the one off the Austin! I know as soon as I give up and buy one it will crawl out of it's hiding spot and be sitting right in front of me!
Finally just quit for the day.

 

have someone else look for it, they will find it in a obvious spot

 

I'll probably give up and buy another belt. I hate misplacing things, but if it shows up I'll have a spare later.
Got the brackets built for the scoop today. Made up two brackets that I attached to the inside of the hood opening, and then drilled a hole for the 1/4" all thread to mount to the brackets so the scoop sits back like it did before. I dropped the back 1" to keep it slightly up in front, and look better than sitting level.
The brackets across the scoop opening actually stiffened up the hood a little too, so that's a bonus. My twin 9" air cleaners arrived today also! Found a pair of chrome Spectre air cleaners with reusable elements, so I can clean and re-oil them.

 

The carbs arrived today! They were scheduled for delivery Monday, but someone screwed up and they didn't get delivered then. Too late to install them, or get the linkage built, but tomorrow is another day!
I got the frontend finished reassembly, and wired in the new harness plugs with a lot of soldering and heat shrinking. Now the frontend will be plug and play if I want to remove it. Need to figure out what to do with the excess wiring now to tie it up and make it look good. And surprise of surprises; the fan belt appeared too! When I opened up the tilt frontend I saw the fan belt hanging over the fan housing, right where I left it! Glad I hadn't purchased a replacement yet!

 

Got the carbs on today, and built all my linkage. Used two of the cast aluminum air cleaner spacers to get a better flow angle over the choke horns. I still need to install the vacuum balancer-quick change spring housings, and plumb everything in. No valve covers yet, but got a picture anyway. The air cleaners sit just inches below the scoop, so should get good cool air supplied to them!


Here's a picture of the back side of the scoop, and the brackets I built to position it in the opening.


And one from the outside that shows the angle. Rear bracket is 1" lower than the front to give the angle I wanted for the scoop.


I'll leave the 327 emblems in remembrance of the old engine that went to the happy hunting grounds!

 

My crusty new old valve covers arrived a couple hours ago!


I immediately set to work with some 5 way penetrant and some wet/dry 220 sandpaper to get the corrosion off. Some of it was pretty bad, but not pitted yet. After a complete sanding, I screwed them to the plywood floor of the canopy and went after them with some rouge and my buffer. Took about 30 minutes each, plus some hand finish work, but I love the look now!