Build Update | Triumph Spitfire Restoration - Part 100

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Come hang out for a moment as I give an update to the build and let you know what I have been up to for the last few weeks.
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[@ThePerformanceVideo]

Hey, we missed you Steve. Episode 100 is quite a milestone! Good update.

[@StevesProjectCarGarage]

Thank you very much!!

[@ThePerformanceVideo]

@@StevesProjectCarGarage When I was in the Army (in 1967) I took the engine out of my Spitfire while I was stationed outside Indianapolis, IN. I carried the crankshaft in a cardboard box into downtown Indy on a bus where I had it reground and set up with new oversize bearings. Got it back running enough to drive it home to Boston before shipping out to Vietnam.

[@lordleonusa]

That's how these rebuilds go, a lot of waiting on parts and machine shops! Carry on, carrying on.

[@StevesProjectCarGarage]

The machine shop has been great. Its the parts part that has been slow. But it is what it is.

[@PatchesCody]

Congrats on your 100th episode, Steve. I'm so far behind I'm embarrassed to say, but I'm always here for moral support down here in Englewood.

[@PatchesCody]

Rod

[@StevesProjectCarGarage]

Thank you Rod!

[@Upspitscreek]

Glad to hear you’re going to shine up those carbs! Careful though, it gets addictive! Congrats on hitting 100 Steve!

[@StevesProjectCarGarage]

Thanks!! I have been itching to get to the carbs for sometime now. Finally that time is here.

[@Upspitscreek]

I gave you a little shout out in my polishing video btw. Get the green compound from harbor freight, it’s all you need!

[@StevesProjectCarGarage]

Just watched it! Thank you, that is exactly how I am going to do it :-)

[@TheLostWrenchGarage]

Good to see that your going to do the rebore and new pistons! Can't wait to see her finished!

[@StevesProjectCarGarage]

Thanks! It made the most sense. I was trying to save money in the wrong places.

[@roundtailrestoration]

Good call on the small end bearings. I didn't have the guts to do mine either. Glad the progress continues and congrats on 100!🎉

[@StevesProjectCarGarage]

Thank you Chris!

[@drivewayshop]

Ted told me he is an outlet for rimmers. If I understood him correctly, you can use him for any needed returns. Those would make cool pen holders. I'll take one off your hands when your finished with them 😂

[@StevesProjectCarGarage]

No kidding. That explains it then! I was thinking pen holders too for the old pistons. I cleaned one up and gave it to Emerson as his first real car part lol.

[@itsalldoable]

Nice video Steve. Great update and really good to see the progress you are making. You must be inspiring many other DIY mechanics to have a go 😎 Also, a well sorted blasting cabinet with glass bead at 25PSI is an easy way to polish your aluminum parts.

[@StevesProjectCarGarage]

Thank you Paul! I hope I am inspiring some, because I am a novice trying to do this.

[@itsalldoable]

@@StevesProjectCarGarage you will for sure. For everyone of us who's doing this, there will be hundreds who wished they could 👍😎

[@redfoxclassics]

Glad you sent the little end bushings to the professionals, they need honing too once fitted which is another thing not worth DIYing. Interestingly it looks like the old jets on your carbs have black plastic sections? That might’ve been part of why you were having difficulty getting it to run well when you got the car as the black bodied jets are for SUs with the float chambers at a different angle to the Spitfire’s (the correct ones are colour coded red).

[@StevesProjectCarGarage]

Thank you! Yeah I thought I could do it on my own but decided against it after just one. The carbs are new to me. I had a Stromberg on the prior which I had rebuilt but could never get running right. So I threw in the towel and sprung for the SUs.