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When you say you have a hard pedal, does this mean you are driving the car and the pedal pressure is very high? or are you in the shop and the pedal doesn't travel and feels overly hard? What master did they run with the MK63 setup? With the car on jackstands and you press the pedal does it lock the wheels?

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If you are gonna do a cam, don't go mild. These engines seem to like the more aggressive cams. @Diseazd can speak to this as he has built a number of engines...

That's for a roadster motor. I am not sure it would even work on 510 motor. Neat idea though...

OK C.O., do you think he was making these or sourcing these from somewhere else? Mercedes part maybe? The info you found suggested he had CNC machines but this doesn't really look like a machined part. If it's not machined then it's cast. Casting is not a DIY kind of thing normally. So maybe there is a source somewhere... "Hoover" @240260280 go find it man!

10 years ago this would have been a parts car. These cars are starting to be worth enough to justify an extensive amount of repair work. Especially if you have good metal skills... The lift is a rotisserie, probably home built. Makes it much easier to work on. I would not make major repairs like that on the rotisserie. You need to set it down on blocks or jack stands. Then get a datum line to check the frame straightness. There is a diagram that gives all the frame dimensions in MM's

Was 1/2" enough to not be seen once the rest of the vinyl trim is installed?

@BJammin240

When I googled Malvern racing I ended up with a bunch of hits on a motocross venue...

There's no gasket there. The filler neck has a flange on it that seats against the body and is held down by the lock ring. The rubber flap goes on top of the filler neck flange and under the lock ring I believe. Are the lock ring screws tight? If they are you might need to add a sealant under the rubber flap to the filler neck flange. Or the flange could be cracked...

Good to know. I paid about that for commercial oil plus shipping.

@NVZEE Success!!! Thanks for your help!!!

That patina brings big money at the auction, especially dust!

Ok, I am working on getting the headliner installed while I can still rotate the car upside down. I bought a new headliner from MSA and it looks much better than any of the others I had. Since I'm an idiot, I threw away the other ones before I compared them for size! So, do I need to trim the MSA headliner some. Do I tuck all the extra in to the ceiling, which seems really difficult from my experiments? How much should extend under the flange? Need some input here...

Who was the buyer? I assume he is going to part out a lot of it. Might be nice to find out who to inquire of for parts...

Best way to go at that is just buy a whole front clip from the South West and replace from the firewall up. How is the rest of the car?

Excellent, Cody is gonna go work on it now..

So NLA???? Trying to get more RPM is an interesting idea, but with a somewhat poorly flowing head might not be worth it. But as they eliminate zinc in the oil, rollers might be nice...

Any other info? Source?

There is no liquid in the overflow tube except when the radiator is very full and the liquid expands. It merely directs the liquid to the ground. I won't effect the driveability of the car. On later cars it goes into a bottle and then pulled back by vacuum when the liquid cools.

Yes this too! Don't sand with out cleaning the car very well. Use a wax and grease remover after washing the car twice. Then you can sand, otherwise you grind wax and other contaminates down into the paint

Does it route across the front of the engine from the alternator?

No, that's a good start! So it goes down under the battery, then where? Under the radiator? Then across to the coil?

2 very good Z brothers are close to you!

Just general layout. Right now his harness comes up the passenger side and across the front but it doesn't seem long enough. So somehow we have it routed wrong. A diagram or some pictures would help a lot... I have looked on Google images some but most of those 510's seem to be modified or you can't see the layout.