{"id":158,"date":"2015-05-09T10:37:36","date_gmt":"2015-05-09T14:37:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/datsunworks.com\/Blog\/?p=158"},"modified":"2015-09-09T11:03:26","modified_gmt":"2015-09-09T15:03:26","slug":"front-timing-cover","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/datsunworks.com\/Blog\/2015\/05\/09\/front-timing-cover\/","title":{"rendered":"Front Timing Cover"},"content":{"rendered":"

Today I was able to finish up the machine work on the timing cover and head.<\/p>\n

The timing cover is a bit of a kludge as I had printed the mold before I fully finalized the timing cover. It works but it will be better in future versions. I had to get it cast and on the head so the machine shop could surface it all together.<\/p>\n

Here I’ve mounted the cover to the front of the head, machined the surface flush with the bottom and drilled the front holes for the lower cover.<\/p>\n

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The front lip is a little thin. I’ll add material to the pattern to thicken it up. I really should have left more material around the entire head. That way I could have made a cleanup pass around the whole thing. I have enough material on the valve cover to create a lip to hide it so it will look good when it’s buttoned up. This head will have a water outlet on the side of the timing cover but future heads will use a coolant manifold like the OSG head.<\/p>\n

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Very happy with the internal fit. I need to rig something for the front cover bolts. The holes are right on the step. I’ll add bosses to the pattern so it won’t be a problem later on.<\/p>\n

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So I didn’t try to make it fit this well but the “as cast” fit between the factory cover and my cover couldn’t have been better. Of course it’s in a spot where no one will see it\u00a0\":)\"<\/p>\n

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Today I was able to finish up the machine work on the timing cover and head. The timing cover is a bit of a kludge as I had printed the mold before I fully finalized the timing cover. It works but it will be better in future versions. I had to get it cast and … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-158","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6IdRp-2y","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/datsunworks.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/158","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/datsunworks.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/datsunworks.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/datsunworks.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/datsunworks.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=158"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/datsunworks.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/158\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":166,"href":"https:\/\/datsunworks.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/158\/revisions\/166"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/datsunworks.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=158"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/datsunworks.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=158"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/datsunworks.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=158"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}