Completing the engine compartment.
The new replacement clutch master cylinder comes with this ugly plastic top cap. It looks like it belongs under the hood of an modern hipster mobile.
Not in my vintage car! I bought a new metal cover to replace it but it turns out that the new cylinder is slightly smaller and it will not accept the new cap.
So I rebuilt the original cylinder instead.
I feel better now!
VP supplied these original style clamps for the coolant lines. I dig!
Nice.
I am using a 1967-up radiator with a sealed coolant system. I am not aspiring to make this car all original, I want it to be a functional driver.
The SU carburetors got the spa treatment in the ultrasonic cleaner. As long as the shafts are tight and the float needles are good, they don’t need much. They did get new bottom jets with new tubing and some fresh gaskets.
Carburetors in place.
Linkage that links.
I had this factory rebuilt distributor laying around for a while, time to put it to use.
I opted for a breaker-less system from Pertronics.
All the the brake lines are in. I used steel tubing with a copper coating for corrosion resistance.
The shiny stainless air cleaners came with these galvanized bolts. To use those would be a horrible offense.
Chrome bolts are expensive and I had these stainless bolts. I just filed off the lettering on top.
After some sanding with finer grit paper, they got hit by the polisher.
See how much better we feel now! Shiny = Good!
Swedish flag in reflection is absolutely a coincidence!
I am adding PCV venting on this car. I just hate crankcase smell and the car with be cleaner for it.
This engine compartment is not even close to be stock but something looks out of place anyway: That modern battery. Engine compartment on vintage cars looks best with a tar top style battery. So what do we do?
I removed the front sticker.
This is vinyl door card material. It has a textured surface on one side but smooth on the back side.
The original battery was a flooded acid battery with filler caps.
These are fake filler caps for Autolite batteries. They are made in Belgium and have double sticky 3M tape on the bottom and I found them on that auction site.
This is a reproduction “Tudor” sticker. Tudor was an OE supplier to Volvo back in the day.
I almost broke my brain doing the math for the location of each cap.
Damn, that looks pretty cool.
The current battery holder is designed to hug the battery on the mid section but that would of course cover up my pretty Tudor sticker.
The early cars had an angle iron on the top edge. I will make a copy so the the world can see my fake flooded battery in all it’s glory.
Much improved engine compartment. Red ignition wires match the positive cable on the battery and now the battery takes part of the color palette.
“Mycket bra!”
Next:
Let’s install the interior…coming up!