<html><head><base href="x-msg://231/"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; ">I can't tell by your pics... Is that car right hand drive? If left hand, how much clearance did you get for that rear carb and the steer tube?<div><br></div><div>Thanks,</div><div>Rick</div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><br><div><div>On Dec 1, 2015, at 1:49 PM, Simon Lachlan wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; font-family: Helvetica; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: -webkit-auto; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: none; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; font-size: medium; "><div lang="EN-GB" link="#0563C1" vlink="#954F72"><div class="WordSection1" style="page: WordSection1; "><div style="margin-top: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-left: 0cm; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; "><span style="color: rgb(31, 73, 125); ">Sorry to bomb you all out with this. Have been trying to get it to Olin but keeps getting bounced. With fewer or even without attachments.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div style="margin-top: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-left: 0cm; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; "><span style="color: rgb(31, 73, 125); ">Simon<o:p></o:p></span></div><div style="margin-top: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-left: 0cm; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; "><span style="color: rgb(31, 73, 125); "><o:p> </o:p></span></div><div style="margin-top: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-left: 0cm; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; "><o:p> </o:p></div><div style="margin-top: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-left: 0cm; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; "><span style="color: rgb(31, 73, 125); ">Olin,<o:p></o:p></span></div><div style="margin-top: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-left: 0cm; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; "><span style="color: rgb(31, 73, 125); ">Hi. Yes, there was quite considerable modification. But nothing too difficult.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div style="margin-top: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-left: 0cm; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; "><span style="color: rgb(31, 73, 125); ">I went to a place nearby where they take old Jag saloons and modernize them with PI etcetc. So, they had a load of HD6s sitting around, more or less as scrap!<o:p></o:p></span></div><div style="margin-top: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-left: 36pt; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; text-indent: -18pt; "><span style="color: rgb(31, 73, 125); "><span>1)<span style="font: normal normal normal 7pt/normal 'Times New Roman'; "> <span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span></span></span><span style="color: rgb(31, 73, 125); ">I bought 3 rebuild kits from Midel in Australia. Stripped the carbs down and rebuilt them. I was lucky; they were not worn and came out like new functionally.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div style="margin-top: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-left: 36pt; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; text-indent: -18pt; "><span style="color: rgb(31, 73, 125); "><span>2)<span style="font: normal normal normal 7pt/normal 'Times New Roman'; "> <span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span></span></span><span style="color: rgb(31, 73, 125); ">I bored(?) out the 3 inlet manifolds from 1.5” to 1.75”. Have to be careful as that’s as far as you can go. Flap wheels and a good gauge...patience and no rushing.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div style="margin-top: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-left: 36pt; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; text-indent: -18pt; "><span style="color: rgb(31, 73, 125); "><span>3)<span style="font: normal normal normal 7pt/normal 'Times New Roman'; "> <span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span></span></span><span style="color: rgb(31, 73, 125); ">I put the carbs on the manifolds and bolted them onto the engine.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div style="margin-top: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-left: 36pt; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; text-indent: -18pt; "><span style="color: rgb(31, 73, 125); "><span>4)<span style="font: normal normal normal 7pt/normal 'Times New Roman'; "> <span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span></span></span><span style="color: rgb(31, 73, 125); ">I sort of waved the original linkages at the setup to see where it wouldn’t fit and put my thinking cap on.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div style="margin-top: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-left: 36pt; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; text-indent: -18pt; "><span style="color: rgb(31, 73, 125); "><span>5)<span style="font: normal normal normal 7pt/normal 'Times New Roman'; "> <span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span></span></span><span style="color: rgb(31, 73, 125); ">I went back to the Jag shop and got a whole lot of linkage bits......a few of these, a few of those and some of the other.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div style="margin-top: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-left: 36pt; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; text-indent: -18pt; "><span style="color: rgb(31, 73, 125); "><span>6)<span style="font: normal normal normal 7pt/normal 'Times New Roman'; "> <span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span></span></span><span style="color: rgb(31, 73, 125); ">I got some brass rod that was just right for the little concertina-like link pieces.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div style="margin-top: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-left: 36pt; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; text-indent: -18pt; "><span style="color: rgb(31, 73, 125); "><span>7)<span style="font: normal normal normal 7pt/normal 'Times New Roman'; "> <span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span></span></span><span style="color: rgb(31, 73, 125); ">I was thus able to get some synchronicity/linkage.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div style="margin-top: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-left: 36pt; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; text-indent: -18pt; "><span style="color: rgb(31, 73, 125); "><span>8)<span style="font: normal normal normal 7pt/normal 'Times New Roman'; "> <span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span></span></span><span style="color: rgb(31, 73, 125); ">I was able to use the BT7 accelerator linkage.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div style="margin-top: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-left: 36pt; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; text-indent: -18pt; "><span style="color: rgb(31, 73, 125); "><span>9)<span style="font: normal normal normal 7pt/normal 'Times New Roman'; "> <span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span></span></span><span style="color: rgb(31, 73, 125); ">I was able to cobble up a choke connection for the 3 carbs, but disconnected one as it was struggling.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div style="margin-top: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-left: 36pt; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; text-indent: -18pt; "><span style="color: rgb(31, 73, 125); "><span>10)<span style="font: normal normal normal 7pt/normal 'Times New Roman'; "> <span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span></span></span><span style="color: rgb(31, 73, 125); ">I was able to use the heat shield, albeit after it was machined out.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div style="margin-top: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-left: 36pt; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; text-indent: -18pt; "><span style="color: rgb(31, 73, 125); "><span>11)<span style="font: normal normal normal 7pt/normal 'Times New Roman'; "> <span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span></span></span><span style="color: rgb(31, 73, 125); ">I was able to use the air filters (French actually). Again the back plates had to be machined out and the LHS one had to be offset.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div style="margin-top: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-left: 36pt; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; text-indent: -18pt; "><span style="color: rgb(31, 73, 125); "><span>12)<span style="font: normal normal normal 7pt/normal 'Times New Roman'; "> <span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span></span></span><span style="color: rgb(31, 73, 125); ">I was able to use 2 out of 3 of the return springs. That was plenty.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div style="margin-top: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-left: 36pt; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; text-indent: -18pt; "><span style="color: rgb(31, 73, 125); "><span>13)<span style="font: normal normal normal 7pt/normal 'Times New Roman'; "> <span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span></span></span><span style="color: rgb(31, 73, 125); ">Played around a bit, but it came right pretty easily.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div style="margin-top: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-left: 36pt; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; text-indent: -18pt; "><span style="color: rgb(31, 73, 125); "><span>14)<span style="font: normal normal normal 7pt/normal 'Times New Roman'; "> <span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span></span></span><span style="color: rgb(31, 73, 125); ">Green springs, CV needles.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div style="margin-top: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-left: 18pt; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; "><span style="color: rgb(31, 73, 125); "><o:p> </o:p></span></div><div style="margin-top: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-left: 18pt; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; "><span style="color: rgb(31, 73, 125); ">I did give it a lot of thought before and during, but it wasn’t difficult.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div style="margin-top: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-left: 0cm; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; "><span style="color: rgb(31, 73, 125); ">Here are some pics. Quite big files so I hope they won’t stuff up your system! But, if you get them, you’ll be able to blow them up quite large for a detailed look. Also a summary posted at the time.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div style="margin-top: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-left: 0cm; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; "><span style="color: rgb(31, 73, 125); ">If you do this conversion keep in touch.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div style="margin-top: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-left: 0cm; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; "><span style="color: rgb(31, 73, 125); ">Now I’m into Webers.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div style="margin-top: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-left: 0cm; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; "><span style="color: rgb(31, 73, 125); ">Do let me know how you get on....if you go for it!<o:p></o:p></span></div><div style="margin-top: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-left: 0cm; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; "><span style="color: rgb(31, 73, 125); ">Simon<o:p></o:p></span></div><div style="margin-top: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-left: 0cm; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; "><span style="color: rgb(31, 73, 125); "><o:p> </o:p></span></div></div></div></span></blockquote></div><br></div></body></html>