After the paint

Its time to sand the paint job down with 1200 grit ,polish it with compound ,oxidizer, and then polish , all with buffer at a variable speed. This takes time . Hand sanding is the best because you get the feel of everything you touch, but it takes time. The tail ,hood and first rear quarter panel too 4 hours to do. This will give you an idea as to the time the hole car will take . Its worth it because it takes care of all the screw ups that you did during painting.

Handle and lock repair

A minor correction on the door handle video, On the lock tumbler the small spring is placed on each side of the tab under load. I did not discover this until i took another one apart that had not been tampered with before. The little retaining tab over the spring will then sit in between the spring tabs . Its a bit confusing to explain but when you do it you will know what i mean. Also the right side handle had the outside latch cam in the wrong position. When i rebuilt it I accidentally used the left side cam and i could not open the door from the outside.
I was annoying because I had already put all the door panel back.

The engine

I tore down the engine because it was not running right ,no power and I had an air intake leak in the old webber carbs. I have a fresh set that i plan to use. This engine has been redine once a long time ago. So here is what i found

 this is what it looked like when i got it it wasnt running

Over the years we did put it together and as you saw in the earlier videos i did get it to run, but never well

When i pulled the valve cover the cam shaft was pitted. The clearances where all over the place and the timing marks where off also.

The lower section revieled some cooling leakage over the years, but the head gasket was not blown and the cylenders held fuel when i poured some in. This is a good sign that the rings are still tight and I may not have to do the lower end completely I did blow the rear seal out so it has to come out anyway.

As you can see the water jackets where all swollen and in one case partially blocking the cooling chamber

The old webbers were not on the engine very tight . I think that air was leaking past them and causing the realy craizy uncontrollable engine running no matter what i did. All the seals where dried out on them but the throttle body valves still worked  well. They will be overhauled and then IL decide what to do with them.

So this is where we are

The body and most of the inside is done.
We have a fresh paint job. The only thing left is the seats , top and the carpet.

4 years later

The car is now in the final stages of completion, with the interior and top still to go. Not really much came off the 77 alfa beside the bumpers , some trim and the rebuilt webbers and  new shocks and springs

Her are some more pics

Fuel pressure reg to 4lbs

Constant flow fuel pump

Fuel canister vapor recovery

fuel lines

rough shape

rear cover

clips

clip repair

2 years ago

real rough

Primer paint

The primer on the car urethane with hardner