1966 Mk1 cortina GT She Drives!

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its been a while! I lost mojo not long after the last updates with 2 bereavements and knowing that the cortina wont be ready for the wedding it just took a backseat.

After a bit of an arsekicking from the wife to be I figured I better pull my finger out! The inlet manifold is nearly finished - instead of the rubber mounts people use we are trying a pinch bolt collar which fits very snuggly on the carbs

With the manifold almost finished I cleaned the head up and gave it a coat of paint before fitting it to the bottom end

I liked the idea of a hard line running to the heater after seeing it on a morris oxford on here - so I made a temporary pipe out of some copper I had lying around

Whilst attatching the loom I found a few damaged wires - I have soldered them up but these will be replaced up - like I have done with the headlight wiring

I bought some lowering blocks a while ago and would like to try them out but the axle has a bolt that goes down through the leaf spring to hold them together - so I am struggling to get these to fit - do I cut/remove the original bolt then the stud on the block locates into that hole?

Any help would be great!

I'll finish with this!