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Post by pila Tue Nov 09, 2010 1:57 am

In case anyone's interested............

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Post by Limey SE Tue Nov 09, 2010 2:05 am

Pila you have access to a CNC machine ???

If so I would like to see if you could make a egr block off plate for my olds ??

Interested ??

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Post by Limey SE Tue Nov 09, 2010 2:14 am

and did you make that rotoissere ??

That's a very cool pic gallery of the progress

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Post by JB2wheeler Tue Nov 09, 2010 11:13 am

Great pics! JB
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Post by pila Tue Nov 09, 2010 11:15 am

Hi Limey
The rotisserie is from a plan I saw on the autobody101 site. A friend who has a small structural steel fab shop built it for me. I've been maintaining his airplane for 20 years, and he sorta owed me! The rotisserie is a bit too short on height to roll the body completely over, and I didn't check that before it was built. It worked great though, and there was no real need to roll it completely up side-down.
I doubt that a CNC rig would be required to make you a block off plate, but I'll make you one, one way or the other.

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Post by Limey SE Tue Nov 09, 2010 11:23 am

sweet I will get you a pattern, but it would have to be kinda thick ?? at least 1/8" right

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Post by pila Tue Nov 09, 2010 11:29 am

I don't believe 1/8" thick is gonna be enough. It could flex somewhat when bolted in place. I can make it from 1/4" plate, which wont bend, and stay flat for a good gasket seal.

I had to make one fir the 500 Caddy engine in my '75 Elco project, but I may replace the intake manifold with an aluminum Edelbrock piece, if I get the ambition to mod the hood for the air cleaner clearance.

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Post by Limey SE Tue Nov 09, 2010 11:38 am

o ok I didn't know how thick it had to be my fuel pump one was billet alum but that is another story .............. sweet i will work on getting a pattern for its a olds 350 not chebbie so will be different

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Post by pila Tue Nov 09, 2010 8:44 pm

The easy way to lay out a cover is usually using the EGR gasket for a template. If you have the correct gasket you can send it to me for the template. I'll PM my address if you want to do it that way.

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Post by Limey SE Tue Nov 09, 2010 10:26 pm

sure thats fine I will get it to you when you send address

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Post by laguna454/4spd Wed Nov 10, 2010 9:51 pm

pila wrote:In case anyone's interested............

https://s561.photobucket.com/home/steelybill/index
nics pics and nice shop too the el looks like its coming along real nice wanna sell that rotisserie when you threw whit it ? or make me one that's looks like a nice one there did you sand blast your frame ? and what paint did you put back on it ? looks great man tom
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Post by pila Wed Nov 10, 2010 10:18 pm

Hi Tom
I didn't sand blast the the whole frame, just the difficult to reach areas, and used wire straight and cup wheels on my 4" grinder to polish off the surface rust. I didn't get exotic frame coatings etc, I used Rustoleum rusty metal primer and their semi-gloss black. I used my engine cleaning gun, to spray & fog primer and paint inside the frame and quarter panels etc on the body. Just trying to preserve the thing as best I can. I painted the insides of the doors and tail gate also.
The rotisserie was built by a friend that has a small steel company ( he owes me a lot of favors) I used a plan I found on the autobody101 site. One of my sons has already laid claim to it, for a '56 Pontiac project he has.

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