Europa TCST

[TurboFource]

Started out this morning putting new spindle bearings in my 32 year old Craftsman die grinder so I can "blunt" the port dividers in my head.

Noticed a burr in my HF made in Cheena piston ring compressor so I deburred it which was a waste
of the time because it is about useless, due to it's failure I made it sacrifice some of it's material and made my own....which works but you have to pay attention...

Auxiallary shaft and rods and pistons installed....(I can turn it over by hand...)

[BDA]

Looking good, Turbo! 

[jbcollier]

An “rounded” shape to the port divider will flow smoother than a sharp edge.

[TurboFource]

That’s what I will be shooting for JB….hopefully mine will look as good as PFreen’s !

[Bainford]

Things are looking good!

[TurboFource]

Decided to baffle the oil pan since half the original was gone after the pan capacity was increased.
Put a plate in the front and rear corner where the angle piece was removed in the original baffle to keep more oil on the right side of the motor. Also added a 1" square tube towards the middle to allow oil to transfer to the the right side, it is 1/2" off the bottom so it does not dam the oil away from the pickup. Increased  the baffle's height and added a small horizontal plate too.....the pieces around the edges were added when the capacity was increased...hopefully get the pan painted today and get started on "blunting the port dividers in the head...

Made my pattern with CAD (cardboard aided design), cereal box works well, then put pattern on the metal, sprayed paint over and cut it out with grinder.

[Pfreen]

It is funny that the Craftsman grinder is the same one I used in 1987.
I bought the head porting kit from I think Eastwood and made some longer arbors.

[TurboFource]

I figured it was better to change bearings in my Made in USA Craftsman, than buy a new imported piece of junk

[TurboFource]

Oil pan painted. Blunting port dividers (it's smoother than the pic looks), taped off one valve of the pair of cylinders, taped a plastic cup to one combustion chamber with a slot for vacuum cleaner, did fairly well at sucking up the aluminum dust.

[69merc]

Nice work on the intake runners 
I thought about doing that to mine, but got in a hurry to get it running.

[TurboFource]

"Blunted" the other intake port divider. Spent a few minutes cleaning up the short side radius in the exhaust ports (hard to take a pic), going for easy mods on head, I have a spare to do more work to if I need to....started laying out pieces for new draw through turbo intake manifold to replace the old system.

[TurboFource]

Went camping this past weekend so the only progress was that the tight radius investment cast
SS elbows I ordered to fab new intake manifold showed up....

[TurboFource]

Cleaning up some more parts. I was cleaning the distributor that came with the car it is a 41225E dated 10 - 73, I have a 41225D dated 6 - 72, the advance mechanism on both has "10" stamped in them, is this the advance in crank degrees? Is the earlier one more desirable (besides being immaculate, even diaphragm is still good)?

The diaphragm in the rusty one is still intact too.

[jbcollier]

The vacuum unit is a retard unit for emissions.  Don’t hook it up.

[TurboFource]

JB is the advance curve any different between them?