{"id":10841,"date":"2012-03-03T00:01:00","date_gmt":"2012-03-03T07:01:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/giuliettas.com\/?p=10841"},"modified":"2012-03-03T00:01:00","modified_gmt":"2012-03-03T07:01:00","slug":"glas-1700-gt-making-headway","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rufushamilton.com\/giuliettas\/2012\/03\/03\/glas-1700-gt-making-headway\/","title":{"rendered":"Glas 1700 GT: making headway"},"content":{"rendered":"

Today was an exciting day, the head I dropped off at my local machine shop for a skim and valve job a few weeks ago turned up and progress on the build could begin again.\u00a0 I asked for the budget build -basically the minimum required to get me on the road, which turned out to be new stem seals, a quick pass with a fly cutter to skim the head and a nice valve seat cut.<\/p>\n

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There’s corrosion around the water passageways and deposits on the exhaust valves, but the head is flat and the valves hold pressure, so it should work -would in Calcutta.\u00a0 Check out the angle the spark plug comes in at.<\/strong><\/p>\n

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It’ll work.\u00a0 <\/strong><\/p>\n

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Pretty simple stuff, this head.\u00a0 I cleaned up the intake manifold, thermostat and housing a while ago -was exciting to finally be able to mount it to the head.<\/strong><\/p>\n

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Mmm -jewelry like Solex carb parts.\u00a0 These did a few tours in the parts tumbler<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

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Amazing the detailed workmanship what has gone into these carbs that were, as far as I know, only used on the Glas Gt.<\/strong><\/p>\n

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Cool stuff.\u00a0 The brass bits look really neat.<\/strong><\/p>\n

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Odd how the thermostat housing is a darker shade of raw aluminum.<\/strong><\/p>\n

I started to assemble the carbs, but it’s slow going, there are a lot of intricate parts that need to be assembled in a particular order, with particular care.<\/p>\n

Up next, lots of little bits getting assembled.\u00a0 Maybe I’ll get lucky and the car will turn up soon.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Today was an exciting day, the head I dropped off at my local machine shop for a skim and valve job a few weeks ago turned up and progress on the build could begin again.\u00a0 I asked for the budget build -basically the minimum required to get me on the road, which turned out to … <\/p>\n

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