Rattler's 2a civvy restoration project

[landylees]

Painted the engine today

Graham,
did you paint the engine with anything special? I am going to do mine shortly and was just planning on using an etch primer and some standard duck egg blue paint I got from Marcus Glenn.
Howard

[Cornish Rattler]

Painted the engine today

Graham,
did you paint the engine with anything special? I am going to do mine shortly and was just planning on using an etch primer and some standard duck egg blue paint I got from Marcus Glenn.
Howard

No i just used a tin of gloss black engine paint for the block and a rattle can of wheel silver for the timing case and back plate

[Cornish Rattler]

Decided to move the intercooler back a tad on Saturday and today I started to fit the intercooler pipes trying different ways and decided on fitting the intercooler upside down, course the local motorist's shop didn't have any hose clips in so I had to order some in and with the new aftermarket intercooler having 60mm inlet and outlet instead of 50mm I have had to order 2 x 60mm x 50mm reducer's which should be here in 48 hrs

Anyway here's the pic's

[Cornish Rattler]

Some more

[Cornish Rattler]

Finally finished my intercooler pipes yesterday

[Cornish Rattler]

one more pic, the blue top rad hose is there to show the two top hoses fit easily as I an going to do the rad hoses in black silicon aswell

[AR4412]

Hi Graham,

That's a nice and tidy plumbing job there.

Regards,

[Cornish Rattler]

Hi Graham,

That's a nice and tidy plumbing job there.

Regards,

Cheer's mate, hope to have the rad hoses done in the next couple of week in black silicon then i can remove the rad and intercooler and paint all the brackets i've made to make the rad and intercooler fit and at the same time get the front panel painted ( Limestone ) as that's the colour for the landy i'm going with, then refit it all again

[Cornish Rattler]

I've decided to go with rubber hoses as regards the rad hoses as it would be to expensive going the silicon way, so I've ordered them and should be here by weekend all being well

[Cornish Rattler]

Fitted the rad hoses today, just got to fab a bracket to support the bottom hose as its just proud of the front X member