Project: Cheerio..Yum Yum by joezeeuw

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OK so the plan is to get everything all fitted into the car first, then disassemble it, make everything look good and then re-assemble. I've been playing a little trial and error trying to figure out a belt and pulley system for this thing. I've got a combination that puts the alternator and crank pretty much in line, but the water pump pulley isn't quite right.

Anyone know if there is a pulley that has a deeper "hat" than this and what model I can find it on? Or do I need to change the other two to match the WP?

I've also been trying to save some money on parts by fabricating my own. When running a 16v on carbs you need a fancy expensive water neck to clear the carb setup. I attempted to make my own, this allowed me to make the nipple on the bottom a little longer to compensate for the slightly taller block. My welding isn't the prettiest.

I also made a block off plate with a port for the breather system. Here's all my progress so far. Notice the highly modified accessory bracket. Might look a little haggard right now but I intend to get it all cleaned up and nice looking once it's all finalized.

10/7

Update: Still trying to source the necissary brackets and pulleys. In the meantime I've been working on my crankcase evacuation system. When running carbs it's difficult to tap into manifold vacume since there is basically nothing pre-throttle plate and tapping into the manifold after would throw everything off. Most people just run a line from the crankcase to a filter or catch can. With the many advantages of actual crankcase evacuation I started looking into other options. The pimpest would be to run a dry sump oil system, but that's $$. I ended up deciding to borrow some old school technology from drag racers. It might work it might not, we'll see. Here's how it (hopefully) will work:

I just have to weld this little guy into my header.

the exhaust gasses passing by will draw my crankcase gasses out of the block. Simple enough. To prevent sucking too much oil into the exhaust I made this little separator/catch can.

I put a little baffle in it to hopefully get the oil to collect.

Think it'll work? Oh and sorry environment.

Motor comes out after chili fest. 

11/5

Update:

Motor is out

The dirty bay

power washed it and removed the battery tray and other unecissary brackets. Notice the lack of a brake booster.

Got everything out of the cockpit so it doesn't get burned from all the welding and such that will be taking place

Just need to get a tubing bender so I can reroute one of the fuel lines, the other will be removed. I've got pretty much all the parts I need for the motor so I'll be putting that in soon so I can start test fitting everything.