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Gary, your attention to detail is very impressive. I would love to have half of your fabrication skills!

The fabrication skills are to be admired, but perhaps a better choice would be the Capital involved in the equipment?  One could hire a considerable amount of work for the price of Gary's equipment.

Well the capital in the equipment isn't to make hobby car parts; but it is a perk. And if I can make things which there is a need for; while I may never make a buck at it y comparison to the main jobs, it keeps me happy.

Gary, That Tank is Amazing!

Now if we could have only started you at SFI instead of TBI you would still be FI and not carb. LOL!

I had it tuned preyty good under the TBI. I have absolutely no complaints about how it ran. Being a 64 with much of the 64 style, I like the minimum wire and carb combination.

I am also trying to do a better job with the front valance around the radiator. I will duct the intake through one side. I have cut some test pieces to get fitment. Waiting for a chance to get the updated panels cut on the laser:

Here is the tophat cut down for the carb. It was different then the one I had:

Great work!! gary can ask a favor? can you let us view the car which is already done!

I cleaned up the heater lines. They were just tubes floping through the bay and over the engine. I solderd connections to coper tubing, sand blasted and powdercoated the tubing black in high heat powder.

It's a much beter looking run to the servo water heater valve.

I threw the other intake with short top hat, FI, distrib and other on ebay.

Angela, as if any car is ever really finished here's Garys MGB as it was at the Indy British V8 meet two years ago. http://www.britishv8.org/MG/GaryWalker.htm

That was a rainshower!

I got the front shroud cut for the radiator but I am going to re-draw it and do it again. The openings have blank plates (not seen) which rivet/bolt in. The right side will be used to run the air intake through.

I wanted an O2 gauge but I didn't want it in view. I added a vacume gauge and put it behind the radio delete plate. It's hard to see in the photo but I used an ajustable bolt with magent on the end to hold the readio delete plate on:

Need some trim pieces to seal the shroud and finish the intake duct but it's coming together:

To me, engine bay trimming is the icing on the cake.  I've seen brilliant power plant in some of these British cars but with poorly executed engine bay appeal.  I love looking at the presentation of engine bays; it doesn't always have to be complicated as simplicity will always win hands down, however, with modern fuel injection, it's not always an easy task to simplify, it may be engineering substance over simplicity cleanness and appeal.  I am faced with a challenging design myself  Great work guys!

Cheers, Jacques

I tell ya I have great admiration for those who can make an injected system look clean; and there are some that do. Picking the system helps as well. Not every system can be adapted that well.

The wiring is a real challenge, especially if sequential as each injector has it's own circuit. If you can make that look neat the plumbing isn't all that bad.

Jim

I think the ones that look good are the ones people do without using engine covers.

QuoteThe wiring is a real challenge, especially if sequential as each injector has it's own circuit. If you can make that look neat the plumbing isn't all that bad.

Sequential fuel injection installations don't have to be hideous - here's one done by Terry Seneker and Ted Lathrop. The worst thing about this installation are the heater hoses, and they are not bad.

That is an absolutly fabulous bay. I mulled over heater hoses too. Before mine were slumped over the engine. This time I used copper tubing, soldered fittings to go into short rubber hoses for vibraion and movement then powdercoated the lines. They look a lot better; not ideal but better.

Gary,

Thanks for the compliments. Ted and Terry do superb work. We agonized long and hard about where to put the hoses, but we couldn't come up with a better solution. Every other route we tried had worse problems.

I like how you got rid of the radiator valance all together. It really opens it up.

I got the trim around the radiator done. I have been driving with out it but it is finally done. I still need to build my duct to duct the cold air through the hole next to the radiator. I also need to do a little cleaning in general: