Bryan,
I also had to "open up" some of the holes in the back plate to get it to
line up.
It's easier to just buy a cable from Rivergate or Morriservice.
Larry Miller
----- Original Message -----
From "Bryan Vandiver" <Bryan.Vandiver at Eng.Sun.COM>
To: <spridgets@autox.team.net>
Sent: Friday, May 05, 2000 10:17 AM
Subject: bugeye 5-speed conversion progress (long)
> I'm almost done with my 5-speed conversion for the bugeye.
> I took last week off and was hoping to have the conversion compleated by
now,
> but one thing led to another, and to make a long story short, I ended up
having
> my engine bored and honed in the process (new pistons too). In any case
the
> motor is back together (except the head will need mounted) and I have the
210
> tranny bolted up and ready to reinstall back into the engine bay. I
orginally
> removed the head on the engine so I could remove the engine without taking
the
> bonnet off.
> In any case, I'm going to recheck the cam timing before I reinstall, just
to
> make sure I got everyhing back together correctly ;-)
> I have the Rivergate kit, but I took Crash's and a couple other listers
advice,
> and had Paul Asgeirsson of Morris service, nodify my flywheel to accept
the
> Nissan pressure plate assembly (nice work). I did notice when I bolted up
the
> Rivergate backing plate to the engine, I had to open up the locating dowl
holes
> very slightly to get eveything to line up properly. I also had to open up
two of
> the screw holes for the counter sunk screws that mount the plate to the
back of
> the engine. This was no big deal, since the back plate is aluminum, and I
just
> used a very slightly over sized drill bit (1/64 over). The tranny bolted
right
> up with no issues.
> I made a new clutch line from a prefab 42" copper/nickel pipe I picked up
from
> Minimania ($13), and have bent it up in the 'stock' tradition, with a
couple of
> coils in it, simular to the 'original' bugeye clutch line. The line
already had
> the fittings on the ends, and screws right into the Master, and stock
slave
> cylinders.
> My next challenge will be the speedometer cable. Rivergate has some
instructions
> for this, however they seem pretty confusing. It looks like I'm supposed
to use
> the stock 210 speedo cable, and replace the speedo end with the coupling
off my
> sprite speedo cable. (Any suggestions here woud be appreciated:-)
> Since the car was running pretty well before I started, I'm hoping that it
will
> fire up OK, onnce I get everthing back together. My only concern is making
sure
> I got the timing gears and distributor drive back in properly so that I
didn't
> change any of the timing there.
> BTW - I picked up a new head gasket from Minimania, that looks pretty
good, it
> has a 'silver' finish to it, and has metal 'rings around all water jacket
holes,
> as well as the oil and cylinders. They recommended this one over the
'copper'
> one, and said they used it in all thier race engines. It is about 25-50%
thicker
> than the 'copper' gasket, and is fibre material has a silver coating
simular to
> to the spray-on copper coat. Has anyone had any experience with this
gasket?
>
> - Bryan Vandiver (59-bugeye)
> San Jose, CA
>
>
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