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<\/a>Hard to believe how much engine you can get for $250.\u00a0 This thing sounded and ran good with no smoke, is clean and not much bigger (they basically share a block) than the pushrod motor it’s going to replace.\u00a0 Note fancy wrinkle finish on the belt cover.\u00a0 I like.<\/strong><\/p>\nOkay, there’s the Fiat update.\u00a0 It’s on a schedule that should have it on the road in a few weeks if not better.\u00a0 I am still researching 5 speed options, but most seem to require either a bunch of money or a bunch of fabrication, neither of which I’m keen to do.\u00a0 Good thing the 4 speed will work for now.<\/p>\n There you have it, another exciting glimpse into the brain of someone who spends way too much time and effort fooling around with old cars.\u00a0 Oh, and by the way, I sold the gray Spider, so one less thread of complication and diversion has been removed from my path to getting back to working on the SS.\u00a0 Anyone want a 69 GTV pretty cheap? Alex, you want it back?\u00a0 I’m serious! Would be sweet to ONLY have 3 old cars to fuss with.<\/p>\n Previous post about the GTV<\/a>.<\/p>\n
\n<\/a>Here’s Chris struggling with the steering centerlink.\u00a0 The waft from the mounds of dog crap I was constantly stepping around gave me a sense of urgency I don’t usually have when pulling an engine.\u00a0 These cars look great without bumpers.\u00a0 A coupe for me someday?<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/a>Okay, the other Albatross around my neck.\u00a0 The GTV just needs wipers, and heat would be nice to have.\u00a0 Once I have those\u00a0 I can wipe one hand against the other, brush off my pants, put my cigarette out like I’m squashing a bug and start learning my fellow 880 commuters about the mighty GTV.\u00a0 Here’s the offending part.\u00a0 Hooked up to power it does nothing.\u00a0 Time to look inside.<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/a>Grease that is exactly 3 years older than me.\u00a0 It doesn’t seem to have survived its mid-life crisis.\u00a0 There are two brass contacts that run around a disk, you can just make both out in the picture.\u00a0 One is continuous, this is the one that gets power when you turn on the switch, power that turns the motor.\u00a0 The other has a plastic break in it and it gets power all the time, this is the park mechanism.\u00a0 So far so good.<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/a>I once had the transmission on a 1963 Honda CB77 \u00a0Superhawk lock up on me as I was taking off from a stoplight.\u00a0 What you see in this picture shut me down with pretty much the same sudden impunity.\u00a0 I need a new motor.\u00a0 APE has been contacted, I’m waiting to hear.\u00a0 Anyone got one of these?<\/strong><\/p>\n