Wolseley Hornet Supercharged. Little details to provide a positive brake pedal stop and working towards an oil cooler and modern remote filter.
Below: Austin Cambridge having some rolling renovation work including a new ignition system recently. A note on the ignition system, be very wary of new parts, this is becoming a serious problem with faulty and even non genuine Lucas labelled "new" parts. Here we are treating rust and painting and making some new door lock parts.
This car has been in the family for a very long time, the owners have nice memories of trips to this seaside sitting in the back, they now live in their old Holiday destination.
Ah, quite a change, we have completely restored this trailer for the owner. In the same way as the Cambridge story above, there are lots of happy memories with this trailer and the lovely Triumph 2000 (seen elsewhere in this blog) that I regularly maintain.
Triumph Gloria windscreen wiper mechanism overhaul as well as a pair of Luvax dampers for service.
Below we have the work on the Cambridge door lock which is all quite worn. The main issue had been a very worn pin falling out of the base of the barrel making locking and unlocking very unpredictable. Here we have made a new slightly oversize pin in the lathe and we have leaned some of the bruising and damage with an oil stone.
Studebaker engine work. Lots of very fiddly prep of original bolts, brackets and fitting before treating to blacken their finish..
Wolseley sees the light of day more often now
Studebaker Engine front drives preparation and valve timing work.
Wolseley Odds and Ends. Lambda sensor fitting for testing only, it will be removed for racing
Turner delivered to meet it's body again, this has had extensive repairs and a really nice new tub section. The engine is going to be quite highly tuned and so the chassis will be upgraded to disc brakes and servo, the wheels will no longer be used as they are not good enough for the extra power and chassis loads.
Before and after:
Some more Wolseley Hornet bits and pieces that should have been at the top of this post..
Heavily altered and fabricated bronze / brass linkage to fit in "snug" places
All fabricated exhaust and mountings
Below we show the fabricated inlet filter system that is removable if VSCC events require. We calculated an ideal air box volume and tried to build that into the system. This was a tricky operation, as with all of the car, we tried to make everything in the spirit of a one off Brooklands period car, no plastic airboxes although we did concede to a modern filter material that can be removed to use just a brass gauze inner section.
Many little tabs like this were made to allow the use of locking wire where necessary for competition rules.
Quite out of sequence with the other photos.
We made a steel strap to bridge the propshaft to give a little protection from a flailing prop should the worst happen.
More out of sequence photos I'm afraid.
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