Another day to attack the car, but i had a cheeky job for another party to attend to first.
My brother has a Polo breadvan that we are converting to 5 speed with a golf 1.4 lump and injection. 2 of the 3 engine mounts tallied up but the last one gave some grief. In the end it was simpler to just fabricate up a new one from the 2 existing ones. Cue some creative angle grinding and a stint with the welder, and we were left with something like this:
Will try and get a pick of that in place tomorrow once its fitted.
So with that done i could focus on the Camaro... before i did anything i popped the mahoosive bonnet off. Find i work better without a succession of concussions from battering my head on that thing every 2 minutes.
First job was to change out the dead battery. May seem strange to do this at the start of a build but i will be doing many things that require an engine start to confirm it has worked so a new battery seemed like a simpler option than continual jump-starts and doubt! The only problem was that the cheapest battery i could find up to the job had the posts in different locations to the cars loom:
The connected post above was the earth. The live feed(s) did stretch with a bit of relocating:
But a much neater solution will have to be made for that... its far too untidy for my liking, plus half of those live feeds i have no idea about!
With the car starting again i decided to crack on with one of the jobs previously mentioned that "needed a start" for confirmation... the new dizzy! An inspection of the old one confirmed my suspicions:
That coil pick-up in the centre of the rotor arm was crumbling. Solution? Rip the whole lot out:
And get the shiny new HEI number in...
Vacuum advance rather than the electronic pish that was on the car. Need to get a vac feed from the carb sorted out (IE find where it can be tapped from!) Aligned it up as close as i could and secured it down with...
...a chrome securing fork. Incredibly it was on the car already, and a wee scrub brought it up all shiny shiny again. So back on with the cap:
...and on with the leads and filter:
...and it was time for a test fire. Runs fine but there was a hell of a squeal from under there. I hope its due to the alternator belt as it was soaked from having the heater lines off and being out of alignment due to that missing cap bolt.
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