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Couldn't you just call GSF and see if they had one in stock 😂

Love the Lola! I built a 550 Porshe replica (Martin Walker from Thruxton) in the 90s (whilst moving house and having a new baby!). Nothing as complex as the Lola, but it was a beautiful thing. A similar gear linkage required! I turned the pinion around in the VW gearbox rather tha inverting it. I did about 15k miles in her including runs to Cornwall and commuting...through the winter! Alas I got tempted and sold her to fund buying a 55 Mercury a few years later. You can't keep em all 😢 Loving your videos (I found you via Bryan's vids)

Best of luck in 2025 🎉 from old New Orleans 😇🏁

Sounds like a Merlin.

Fuel and timing 👌 she will be mint

Needs bigger wheels..

Agree with a commenter below. Those old copper head gaskets can be reused if you anneal them. With respect to the cyl surface rust. You may want to remove head and hone. Depends on what your trying to get as a finished product. Maybe re ring it also if the bores are not too oval. thanks for great video

Mr Bracket I am posting you a video of a "La France" engine first start, by a guy called Johnathan. Johnathan is a real back woods man. He repairs all sorts of machinery from steam engines to cranes and builds hot rods, all obtained from scrap.. I think you might find it interesting. - ua-cam.com/video/x5qkNlsskCo/v-deo.html

Definitely Time Consuming but Worth it 👌. Can't wait until you do some Tuning. God Bless Everyone and Trust in our Lord and Savior Christ Jesus ❤.

Sweet baby well done from Australia

Sounds great 👍

Thank you, that was very informative. Love the clip, will be watching till it's driving down the road. Many Cheers from Brisbane Australia 🦘🦘😊

Some of the YZR's I have seen look like they use the SZR660 swing arm because it has the notch for the lower expansion pipes and "scaffolds" on the left, like the 0WC1, and the SZR is the same Delta Box frame as the 3MA.

Bootifull

Wow very nice, 2 x RD500's thats just greedy :)

Looks good now just the handling tuning

Hi Mr Bracket Factory, Is it on a short and long wheel base chassis? Post 1931 i think is long wheel base.

Looks an amazing build. Do you sell the bracket or are the dimensions available? What lower shock linkages are used? Thanks

That was some pretty nice tank repair. Those repairs call for a couple of pints mate!

Good on ya basil

Nice!😁👍

It looks so cool driving on the road!

Grease those bearings. Don't worry about the bearing seals, it will get in. More importantly it will keep water out.

Can't u ask meusem to trade for this part or reconditioning it it reminded me of the rolls Royce merlin an Griffin engine s my uncle Bernard used to melt them down for scrap. But he found out the were made with forforis alloy which burned into powder in Sted of alloy ingets awwell lemon lernt

Given it came off an old fire engine I can't imagine they'd have be too worried about a few water drips from the engine back in the day! The water pump on my Brooklands come with a graphite disc under the impellor for sealing. That broke so I replaced with with a Teflon one. No idea at all if that is going to work or not. I've not tried it with coolant yet!

With rope pump packing the grease is necessary to lube the packing otherwise itll burn and wear the shaft.

OK, been following a bit. Good project, but ... 2 things come to mind. 1.) the distributors were made for "work" engines that pump all day at relatively steady RPM and load. So no vacuum advance. Many fire trucks are configured this way. But it won't work well on road trips with light throttle and high vacuum in your proposed car. Not enough advance. 2.) the starter sounds "draggy" or lazy. I very much suspect that, like many truck from the 40's~mid 60's, the fire truck was fitted with two 2 battery banks and a series/parallel switch for the starter. That would give you redundant circuits for the ignition when running (pumping) and double the voltage to the starter when cranking. Having driven many trucks from this general time period, seems that was the norm 😊

I wonder if one of those distributors is not acting as well as the other.

Great progress. You've gotta love parts that can actually be serviced.

I like your attention to detail and it was interesting to see how the water pump went together. I am looking forward to seeing the motor running for more than a minute. It was nice to see the thermostat working after all this time. Cheers!

What a epic video. Enjoyed spending time with you in the shop. I'm sure that waterpump will last another 50 years or more now :)

What a brilliant job. Well done

Its usually easier if the gland packing is put into the housing with the ends cut at 45 degrees rather than on the shaft.

Wood bits work so well on metal (my mom never appreciated what great screwdrivers her silverware knives made).

Nice

Great Job Chris! Reminded me a little bit (although much bigger and more complex) of the fun and games to be had with a Lotus Twin Cam water pump! BTW was Mrs Bracket in the kitchen when you were testing the thermostat? I thought not!

Man wins! Great stuff

Great show😊

You could run the car with a 1970 whip ariels that were in fashion to mount the fuel tank.😁😁. Happy New Year.

Happy New Year Chris! Love your videos. Very much in awe of your engineering skills but largely find it great therapy to watch you working, pretty much my equivalent of funny cat clips, and tbf, you do even include a bonus bit of cat action ever so often!

Cracking job again, you must be very satisfied with the outcome

Paint the end of the fan blades in yellow, it will definitely look like a spitfire then haha Great attention to detail, looking really good.

Nice work Chris! What's your target radiator wise? Must have been a generous one originally as presumably designed to be effective with no ram effect when pumping? Are you going to lash something up to allow for tuning or plan ahead for the special? Is there going to be a big chassis reveal? I get little enjoyment after the first fire up seeing with the multitude of men of a certain age on YT who have a large motor on a frame that is never going to do anything other than have a perfunctory rev up once in a blue moon over too many Budweisers.

Well Done

Nice project. Good episode. Suggestion: when you put the water pump back together, use some fine emory cloth tape to polish the packing surface. And the use some "Vasoline" in the surfaces and into the rope so it'll be lubed while it's running w minimum water flow (drip). Also suggest you use some RTV on the threads of the impeller. I'd use some "Never Seize" on the threads, then wiped off and RTV will seal the threads and act as poor mans thread locker. And allow it all to unscrew pretty easily 😊

Nice work Chris! Thoroughly enjoyed this video, looking forward to the next!t😁

Lovey job Mr Bracket! thanks for showing us the entire rebuild and your logical repairs, I love that Lanolin oil too! great stuff!

Happy New Year 😊

That pump is a great piece of engineering in fact greatly over engineered like the rest of the engine, I wasn't really surprised to see metric bearings used as in my experiences mostly with 50s Nash's the Americans surprisingly quite often used metric dimensioned components. One point I would make is the use of copper grease inside of the pump, most metals are sacrificial to copper especially in the presence of water, copper anti seize compounds use a low melting point grease as their base which is not waterproof and is designed to dry out when hot and its original intended use was for things like exhaust manifold nuts and studs. Over the course of my 50+ years of engine and machine building Ive had and seen some terrible problems caused by its usually inappropriate use, much better would have been to use a waterproof grease such as CL or even the lanolin grease you were using. Looking forward to the next instalment.

Without exhaust gaskets your going to get massive leaks and will burn out your exhaust valves, this happens when air leaks back into the manifold and hits the hot exhaust valve.