Mick's 70 Lowlight

Spent some time having a trial go at putting the engine together. Discovered a few bugs with the new setup that required some fettling to make fit. Made up the inlet manifold for the throttle body, modified the alternator stand for the new larger manifold to fit and made a new bracket to hold the crank sensor. Also removed the distributor drive and made up a plug for the hole. Goodbye distributor and hello coil packs.

Being twin spark, trying to find a location for two coil packs is a bit of a challenge. Ideally I would like to have one each side behind the fan shourd, but it looks like there may not be enough room on the 1/2 side of the engine. The cool thing about going twin spark is that I can run one pack for each side which enables shorter plug leads.

Still have a bunch of stuff to do before taking it all apart again for painting including making up the fuel rail tie downs, modifying the fan shroud, making up some coil pack brackets, making up a spacer for the alternator backing plate, trial fitting the exhaust, welding in a bung for the O2 sensor helicoiling the rear engine bar mounting holes and a bunch of other stuff. The list seems to be never ending.