1966 Mk1 cortina GT She Drives!

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you need a shrinker stretcher to do such curves, you stretch the outside and shrink the inside, you can stretch the outside easy enough using a hammer, it's the inside that's the difficult bit, it's much more difficult to shrink than stretch!

1-9-2013

I spent an hour on the grinding, there is a little more to do but its looking better than i'd though and with a bit more work itll be very useable

it even fits!

4-24-2013

its been a while! I replaced the floor pan

but I have been stressed about some of the other repairs that need to be done so I have found someone who can do the big bits for me such as the floor pan and the rear outer panels so I have got all my panels ordered and she will be going away for work in a few weeks

whilst selling body parts to raise funds for panels I have been looking for other things to be getting on with so I decided to play with the engine - I wanted to make my own exhaust and one of the manifolds I have is too far gone to be repaired so I thought I would borrow the flanges from the manifold to get me started

sorry for what comes next....

I have tried the flanges on the head to see how they measured up with the ports on the head and considering that the head and manifold came from different parts of the country and haven't been match ported before they line up much better than I thought

the metal in this is where the runners were taken off