1966 404 Coupé Injection Restoration

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The engine went in today just after noon, very smoothly.  The long part of the grey Peugeot-Fenwick lifting bar was reversed before final installation, because it would have tagged the firewall! Since the last photo, the starter motor and its sheet metal plate and intake support rod and the two other metal plates that seal the bell housing, fuel lift pump and fuel filter assembly plus a few other bits and pieces.

4-18-21

Today the manifolds and injection stuff was installed, along with the factory cold air intake.  Actually this car originally came with a huge oil bath air filter but it used to drip oil all over the engine despite multiple attempts to seal it and so I traded it to a guy in France for this French market one.

4-20-21

Monday at about 5 PM I put the 400W alternator on.  404 Injection cars, the alternators are buried down low on the exhaust side, so the well used appearance of this one won't be visually jarring when looking at the engine from above...

Eventually a more powerful new or rebuilt alternator will be installed in its place, to power the heated seats (which right now are not connected).

4-21-21

One more little detail - you may recall that I had 8 injector lines replated in copper and that they required manual pigging out due to old fuel and rust (!) inside from either long term storage (for the old spare set) or disuse and Ethanol-containing fuel (the original set from the car). 

Before tentatively mounting the ones on the engine that you see in the photo two posts back, I sprayed WD40 and MolySlip Combat through them again and a few more bits of particulate came out.  Flushed them again but  I am not confident that there is not still some in there, and the last thing I'd want to do is contaminate the new old stock Kugelfischer injectors (worth $800 USD each and basically unobtanium) with this sort of crap!  The last filtration before the injector is at the suction valve on the bottom of the hydraulic head, so the cleanliness of the balance of the fuel delivery system is paramount.

I therefore have decided to have them professionally cleaned inside, however that can be done.  I will be looking at some local diesel injection shops for this service.

I have one new old stock line for the injectors (wish I had 4) so that one can be the "control". 

4-22-21

One of the hoses I hadn't managed to get a good replacement for up to today has finally been found - at Serie04. This is the one that connects the Hydrovac (brake booster) slave cylinder to the brake piping. An exact match, Made in France.

4-24-21

I commissioned Douglas Peterson-Hui - of The Architects Garage - in Vancouver to make this digital image of my 404C in front of the old Pininfarina factory in Torino.  Not too expensive at all.

4-27-21

The new master cylinder is installed along with the glass fluid reservoir I found yesterday. The brake line that takes fluid from the Hydrovac booster to the wheels is now connected to its hose (the new one I got last week) and it's bolted to the firewall.