A bit of engine bay bling!

[Early GT]

After a couple of months of Sundays, a lot of polishing and some plating, I have finally refurbished all those engine bay carbie linkages we all want to do but cant get around to it.

Here is my interpretation of how the SU carbies and attachments would have looked out of the factory except the yellow cadmium plating has now been replaced with zinc dichromate.

Cheers,
Lewis

[BULLITT]

looks fantastic lewis well done ...a lot of time but its worth it .....i will drop off my motor this w/e (joking) cheers davp

[KJB]

Great attention to detail - good job.......
KB

[gt orphanage]

Well done lewis. It's great to see it go to the next level but how are we to catch up if you move to a higher standard all the time.

[oz_toffa]

that is just superb. Great detailing... but a few rusty washers there on the firewall??

thanks for sharing the photo. love seeing work in progress.



OZ

[Early GT]

Ha Ha Oz,
They are actually the original copper washers off the banjo fittings.
Could not get a proper seal with new copper or aluminium ones so I ended up using those old ones

[mrflibbles]

very nice work, looks fantastic!

[Glenn]

Really nice job Lewis. Pity to cover them with air cleaners !

When i did the same plating on my (Daves) GT, i was initially inspired by Barry M. who did his in early 90's. You have upped the ante though with the polished brass also.

I think though that the parts were originally just zinc plated, not the 'gold' finish. For the bonnet catch etc, for surem although for the carb parts, can't be certain.

glenn

[pa_man]

That really looks EXCELLENT!!

[rod]

very nice good job

[CQGT]

Lewis,

While your making those GT keyrings etc. You'll haveto make a little plaque that reads. ' When viewing the engine bay of this vehicle. We must advise the viewer that the wearing of sunglasses must be adherred too at all times'.

Fantastic job. I've always said. Time and patience. If you can't put in the time. You haven't the patience.

Dave.

[redback]

Nice!

Engine Bay Jewelry - Polishing is a great rewarding job for the time and effort you put into it.

Cheers for sharing.

[Farmer]

My, my. That has to be better than new!
And Tracy reckons I'm going overboard if I hit mine with the Gerni!
Ya gotta have a hobby.

Going home to wash the Florian....................

Top effort,
Matt.

[Glenn]

one thing to be wary of when doing this, the platers take no responsibilty for losing things.

If it drops into the bath, it's gone. I pre-wired all my parts together with copper wire before giving it to the platers.

glenn

[gt orphanage]

don't worry matt i sent some chrome away to years ago with the pan from a sump included. Man i still cop it from Liz but to make thins worse i have been sending boxes of stuff to the powder coaters and putting it away i had the pedals done and Liz wanted her wasp ones done ages ago i said they were too hard to pull out Looks like i have another job to do now .

[yellowperil]

Great Bling thanks Lewis

Congratulations on the time, patience and attention to detail.
YP

[GerryBellettGT]

Looks great Lewis,much better than on the phone,sure Pinky would be glad of a donor heart like that
Can't make the Nav run this weekend,busy with work,Wintersun or Cooly Rocks they call it now,Lesley
say's probably no markets to get me out of the poo

[PR95]

Hey Gerry, nav run not this week end, but week end after. The 17th
I assume you talking about CJCC run
Geoff

PS Lewis that engine looks realy nice, a lot of work gone into it.

[Early GT]

Thanks for the feedback guys.
Hey Geoff, I managed to source a left hand front quarter window rubber
from Japan. It has a pointy front on it which I could modify to a round
shape or swap with one of yours.