Full Tuscan restoration

[Richard smith]

I've got a 2001 Tuscan and im three quarters of the way through a full restoration and just can't wait to get it back on the road as I've missed driving it

[nawarne]

...Photo's please!
Nick

[Richard smith]

I'm putting a portfolio together for the whole restoration as its a nut and bolt rebuild but here is an after photo of the chassis as im having trouble uploading the before pics cause the file is to big. is there a different way to upload pics as i have quite a few to upload at the end.

[Walford]

Did a full nut and bolt rebuild, unfortunatly i bought the nuts and bolts from SH eng
was so p/ssed off when they were going rusty after 1000 dry miles

[Richard smith]

That sucksi i got mine from rt racing and very good quality and very nice guys

[m4tti]

Hi Richard, Andy (throttle bodies) has mentioned your rebuild to me. We were going to drop by but the traffic on the way back from neil garners was crazy. Have you stripped the engine yet?

[Richard smith]

Hi Matt Andy did say he was going to pass my number on to you and yeah it's already been stripped and put new bigend bearings and piston and oil rings also new valve guides and seals and put it all back together and taking it up to Dave at racing green on Wednesday to get timed up. Whys that

[m4tti]

Just curious how far you'd got? Have you gone for the simplex conversion or retained the duplex?

[Richard smith]

I'm sticking with the duplex as I'm going to upgrade to the fff head next year

[m4tti]

Cool. If you want to time it up yourself next year I have a really big (2ft) diameter degree wheel.

[Richard smith]

Cool that would be good. I would of liked to time it up myself this time but just not to sure of the setting. Do you know them and was it easy to time up yourself ?

[m4tti]

I did time my original engine up several times as practice, it's fairly straight forward but needs attention to detail. In the end it took a fair while for my fff head to come in, so when it did, in the interest of time I dropped the assembled block at RG and got them to put the head on.

Edited by m4tti on Monday 5th October 23:18

[Richard smith]

i'd like to time it up but thought it would be best to take it to RG as i would like to get it back on the road in a few weeks as its been off the road for about 6 weeks now so have missed the summer days i will bring it out over the winter but on very very dry days and might come to a few meets

[m4tti]

Richard after all your work do not take it out on damp days or dry days where there is even any remote chance of precipitation. I did last winter. Took the bonnet off and all the new hoses had oxidisation around the connectors. My advice is take It off the road. All the clowns saying all year use don't have a chassis or rebuild to your standard. They have rusted engine components and probably chassis. End of...

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Edited by m4tti on Thursday 8th October 01:24

Edited by m4tti on Thursday 8th October 01:26