Larry,
Thanks for the tip.
How's your new clutch set-up doing so far?? Have you been able to put any miles
on it yet?
- Bryan
>To: "Bryan Vandiver" <Bryan.Vandiver@eng.sun.com>, <spridgets@autox.team.net>
>Subject: Re: bugeye 5-speed conversion progress (long)
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>Bryan,
>I also had to "open up" some of the holes in the back plate to get it to
>line up.
>
>It's easier to just buy a cable from Rivergate or Morriservice.
>
>Larry Miller
>
>----- Original Message -----
>From: "Bryan Vandiver" <Bryan.Vandiver@Eng.Sun.COM>
>To: <spridgets@autox.team.net>
>Sent: Friday, May 05, 2000 10:17 AM
>Subject: bugeye 5-speed conversion progress (long)
>
>
>> I'm almost done with my 5-speed conversion for the bugeye.
>> I took last week off and was hoping to have the conversion compleated by
>now,
>> but one thing led to another, and to make a long story short, I ended up
>having
>> my engine bored and honed in the process (new pistons too). In any case
>the
>> motor is back together (except the head will need mounted) and I have the
>210
>> tranny bolted up and ready to reinstall back into the engine bay. I
>orginally
>> removed the head on the engine so I could remove the engine without taking
>the
>> bonnet off.
>> In any case, I'm going to recheck the cam timing before I reinstall, just
>to
>> make sure I got everyhing back together correctly ;-)
>> I have the Rivergate kit, but I took Crash's and a couple other listers
>advice,
>> and had Paul Asgeirsson of Morris service, nodify my flywheel to accept
>the
>> Nissan pressure plate assembly (nice work). I did notice when I bolted up
>the
>> Rivergate backing plate to the engine, I had to open up the locating dowl
>holes
>> very slightly to get eveything to line up properly. I also had to open up
>two of
>> the screw holes for the counter sunk screws that mount the plate to the
>back of
>> the engine. This was no big deal, since the back plate is aluminum, and I
>just
>> used a very slightly over sized drill bit (1/64 over). The tranny bolted
>right
>> up with no issues.
>> I made a new clutch line from a prefab 42" copper/nickel pipe I picked up
>from
>> Minimania ($13), and have bent it up in the 'stock' tradition, with a
>couple of
>> coils in it, simular to the 'original' bugeye clutch line. The line
>already had
>> the fittings on the ends, and screws right into the Master, and stock
>slave
>> cylinders.
>> My next challenge will be the speedometer cable. Rivergate has some
>instructions
>> for this, however they seem pretty confusing. It looks like I'm supposed
>to use
>> the stock 210 speedo cable, and replace the speedo end with the coupling
>off my
>> sprite speedo cable. (Any suggestions here woud be appreciated:-)
>> Since the car was running pretty well before I started, I'm hoping that it
>will
>> fire up OK, onnce I get everthing back together. My only concern is making
>sure
>> I got the timing gears and distributor drive back in properly so that I
>didn't
>> change any of the timing there.
>> BTW - I picked up a new head gasket from Minimania, that looks pretty
>good, it
>> has a 'silver' finish to it, and has metal 'rings around all water jacket
>holes,
>> as well as the oil and cylinders. They recommended this one over the
>'copper'
>> one, and said they used it in all thier race engines. It is about 25-50%
>thicker
>> than the 'copper' gasket, and is fibre material has a silver coating
>simular to
>> to the spray-on copper coat. Has anyone had any experience with this
>gasket?
>>
>> - Bryan Vandiver (59-bugeye)
>> San Jose, CA
>>
>>
>>
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