1966 Mk1 cortina GT She Drives!

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I've been quite busy over the last few weeks. I painted the dash and put it back together. It's great how something as simple as fitting dials make the car look more complete

I had prepped the engine parts before I put the engine in the bay, except the carburettor it was sanded blasted years ago and still looked good but I wanted to give it a full service as a precaution because it had been sat for a while.

This gave me something to do whilst I was waiting for some new shiny bits for the Cortina to come, they turned up but I wanted to make some nicer brackets for it.

The fuel pressure regulator is attached using a home made bracket and rivnuts through the bulkhead. The fuel line fittings are 1/4" BSP's throughout and 8mm fuel line, the bulkhead connectors allow me to go to flexi lines in a neat way.

Then I was ready to fire her up and...