Putting oil in the spitfire gearbox and overdrive

Tonight filled up the gearbox in preparation for the (soon to be I hope) first drive.

There's square plug on the side where to fill from until it overflows. Used a funnel and small tube, long process.

Had done some internet research last year and decided to go with 30 motor oil oil non detergent.

One step closer !

Spitfire water pump and valve gaps

So...

Now that I tidied my new garage and found all the spitfire parts, for the past 2 months I have been working on the car when I had a bit of time. Slow progress as I had a major work (5 full days) on an other car replacing the V8 engine this summer (quite a story...) and I always have to do a few things to my 1985 daily driver.

Basically the goal is to be able to start the engine and drive round the block asap.

It will probably not be perfect but now I feel it is more important to get it going and I will continue slowly but at least have a fun car to take out.

Completely cleaned and painted the water pump and fan and installed the radiator

Then set the valve gaps to the correct values

The engine bay is starting to look like it should. Exciting, more photos soon !

Time flies

A lot of time went by since this happened.

The spitfire was delivered in France in a container in April 2014. It had to go from the container to truck then down on the pavement. I looked and looked for these photos but just remembered my phone crashed around that time causing the loss of the photos.

Not much was done to the car since we moved an other time to a place with a bigger garage (yeah !) and then I had to do some fixes on our 2 daily cars.
However I now finally sorted all my parts and ready to make some progress!