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These arrived today, 2 mm fuel needle valves, necessary to avoid fuel starvation, standard needle valves are 1.5 mm. Float level will be set at 9 mm

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The rocker arms with the tips resurfaced.

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One carburettor finally finished, I bought a rebuild kit, the diagram was the correct shape and size, but it was of a thicker rubber material and it did not allow the piston to slide back down if I pushed it up, so I put the the original back in.
I also polished the piston sliding surfaces the same as I had done to the other carburettors I originally started out with a few posts back. it made a noticeably smother sliding piston and I also modified the throttle shaft and butterfly the same as I did to the other carburettors a few posts back. The jets are stock setting

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Here I matched the inlet manifold ports to the head, it is port matched not gasket matched. I made up a template of the cylinder head face and matched it to the inlet manifold and made small adjustments by visual checks, it only needed about 1mm to come off on the right side only, and as the pros say do not polish it, here it is just finished with a 80 grit flap wheel.

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This is Scarlets original head that will be rebuilt at the same time, On the left are genuine Tiger inlet and exhaust valves compared to the original valves on the right, apart from the different size head diameters, everything else is exactly the same which makes things easier to set up

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The original purpose of these strut top plates was for rust repair but they were also used on rally Avengers to strengthen that area by simply welding them on top making that area nice and strong, I believe they used to bend at the base of the windscreen pillar area. RS Escorts also had similar plating fitted at the factory, maybe one day I will fit these. extremely rare item these days as they stopped making these panels years ago.