1969 Maserati Ghibli - The Resurection

[julianghibli]

Thanks,

I might see if the same skills exist in Australia!!

The spare is pretty bad though...

[LHRFlightman]

Absolutely amazing thread, I've just read the lot. Full of admiration for your efforts and perseverance.

When can we expect the next update?

[Chad speed]

Hi all
Cant believe its been so long since my last post. I'm making a little progress on the engine and have a question for our Jaguar experts out there, can someone let me know the outside diameter of the tappet shims (shim not bucket) on the 6 cylinder XK engine? Any help would be great as Google has failed me on this occasion.
Ciao

[gforceg]

Glad to hear you're still at it. I look forward to updates, hopefully, soon.

I know naa-theeng about your question however.

[The Surveyor]

Chad speed said:

Hi all
Cant believe its been so long since my last post. I'm making a little progress on the engine and have a question for our Jaguar experts out there, can someone let me know the outside diameter of the tappet shims (shim not bucket) on the 6 cylinder XK engine? Any help would be great as Google has failed me on this occasion.
Ciao

Good to hear things are still moving forward Roger, my Mexico has stalled a little recently due to a wedding (mine!) hence my recent radio silence....

Does this help with the Jag tappet shims (http://georgiajag.com/Documents/Tappets/Tappets.html) or is this as clear as mud! Good luck and post up some pictures of what the engine looks like internally, very interested!

Paul

[Chad speed]

The Surveyor said:

Good to hear things are still moving forward Roger, my Mexico has stalled a little recently due to a wedding (mine!) hence my recent radio silence....

Does this help with the Jag tappet shims (http://georgiajag.com/Documents/Tappets/Tappets.html) or is this as clear as mud! Good luck and post up some pictures of what the engine looks like internally, very interested!

Paul

Thanks Paul
As it happens I'd already found that website and it proved very useful with regard to the cam buckets but not the shims under the buckets. When I've progressed a bit further I'll post details, some of the engine parts are overpriced and very much of 1960's quality so I've come up with some interesting options.
Congratulations by the way, once you are back on your feet I look forward to progress on the Mexico..
Roger

[LHRFlightman]

Any update?

[dpp]

LHRFlightman said:

Any update?

I miss this thread too, I hope you can update us with some progress soon.

[dpp]

LHRFlightman said:

Any update?

I miss this thread too, I hope you can update us with some progress soon.

[acme]

Have to say it would be great to hear an update too, this was a fantastic thread.

[Chad speed]

18 months after starting the process we have finally moved house. During this time posts have been in short supply from me and for that I can only apologise, the PH faithful have spurred me on over the course of this project and kept the candle of enthusiasm burning.
I am fortunate that storage for the car in both the last house and new has been clean and dry. The body shell is more or less as my last posts at the end of 2012, that is painted but not to my satisfaction, I will be re-visiting it at some point! I have not been totally inactive however and will do some catch-up posts in a couple of weeks time when I'am allowed some play time.
Thanks to all for your continued interest.
Chad

[The Surveyor]

Chad speed said:

....Thanks to all for your continued interest.
Chad

It's not just interest Roger, it's motivation!

Great to hear that you're still making small steps forward with this fantastic project

Paul

[Lost soul]

Oelholm said:

Those white-walls are atrocious! Looking forward to reading about the restoration, even though I'm a bit annoyed that you'll only post weekly

What did you decide re: the colour? Any pics of the original green?

EDIT: Googled and found this - is it similar?

Exactly the same spec as my ex Ghibli

[GVLJ]

Hi Chad,

Good to hear the house move has gone well. Really looking forward to your catch up posts - it's become a bit of a tradition with my brothers to catch up on your progress over a few Christmas drinks - pushes us to pull our fingers out and do something about our various (far less ambitious) projects...

Cheers,

GVLJ

[Chad speed]

Mega busy at work next week but then 2 whole weeks off which should allow me to do a few catch up posts. Don't expect too much as progress this year has been woeful but still, a little has been made and the Christmas break seems a good time to draw a line under it and plan the year ahead.
Chad

[Chad speed]

Ok so a catch-up of the last year, first up was re-building these beauties, being a mid series Ghibli the Diva is equipped with four Webber 42 DCNF carburettors mounted on Maserati’s own inlet manifold and own linkage.



It was barely possible to open the throttle butterfly’s and they didn’t close by themselves, it was also impossible to operate the cold start device. The red powder coated spacer plates hint at the car’s dubious restoration history.

[ivanhoew]

not to mention the probably rock hard braided clear fuel pipe .;-)

[Chad speed]

The braided hoses were indeed rock hard, no chance of just pulling them off the spigots so had to file though them carefully.
The cut-outs in the trumpets are for access to the fixing nuts below and are original. Not sure if the trumpets are Webber general parts or specific Ghibli?

[Megaflow]

Sod balancing that lot...

[julianghibli]

Its actually not that hard with one of these tools..They are about $45 or so and make it a fairly straightforward and rewarding job!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G7GG9ylOhpQ

Good Luck with the ongoing project and you're doing an amazing and inspiring job

Julian