Upgrading a 100/6 into tuned 3000 spec

By ola7868giug On April 2, 2014

Transforming early Longbridge 100/6 into full and tuned 3000 specification

To be fitted with a specially built road/rally 3000 engine with 278° cam and two HD8 carbs. This will transform the car completely.

Engine and gearbox assembled and awaiting to be hoisted into the car

: Reconditioned distributor

: Correct way of fitting advance springs

: Tapping threads

: Incorrect way of fitting advance springs

: Cleaned body

: The advance weights were wrongly assembled resulting in no advance whatsoever

: Distributor dismantled

: Dizzy in a real bad condition

: Adjusting the rockers

: Twin HD8´s for extra power

: With anodized plate

: Attached to car

: Wooden block upholstered

: Door seal end plate

: Wooden block used to attach door seal end plate

: The metal strips for attaching the door seals were missing on this car

: Floor carpets fitted

: Tunnel carpet fitted

: Glueing insulating material to tunnel carpet back

: Janne is correcting the shape of the tunnel carpet

: Dont forget leathercloth around the handbrake

: Cutting insulating material into shape

: A metal plate with a hole had to be fabricated in order to get the gear lever centered

: Tunnel carpet test fitted

: Hole for the dipstick and oil fill

: All holes has to be cut in the tunnel

: With carpet

: Extensively reshaped

: Useless part that doesn´t fit at all

: Finally it fits after a lot of work

: Fibre glass has cured and been filled

: Building up the new angle with fibre glass

: Changing the angle

: Gearbox cover has to be modified in order to fit faulty extension panel

: Ill fitting extension panel that has to be completely reworked

: Repro tunnel and extension panel

: Door panel installed

: Removing tracing tape from beneath the stitching

: Stitching around the aperture

: Jan Holmkvist is tracing for the stitching

: Leather cloth on top of the frame

: Perforated by PO´s

: Inner door liners installed

: The finished liners waiting for the stitches around the apertures

: Now the aperture has to be cut

: Edges being glued

: Leather cloth

: Wadding trimmed

: A very thin wadding was used on the door liners

: Outer door liner laquered before being upholstered

: Door liner test fitted to door.

: Finished lower liner

: Lower liner being upholstered

: Upholstered in leather cloth

: Inner door liners cut to fit in Millboard

: Silencer with side exit

: Headers and silencer

: Side pipes

: Engine earth lead

: Aluminium radiator

: Plastic fan

: Dynamo

: Very important to fit air deflectors

: Tuned 3 litre engine

: Twin SU HD8´s

: Heatshield

: Inlet manifold mounted on engine

: Finished manifold

: Gasflowing the inlet manifold

: Headers in place

: Transmission in place

: Engine in place

: Installing engine and tranny

: Restored throttle linkage installed

: Footwell panel installed

: Footwell panel front side

: Finished footwell panel, flip side

: Custom made footwell panel being upholstered in black leathercloth

: Braided Goodridge brake hoses

: Engine and gearbox assembled and awaiting to be hoisted into the car

: 100/6 bellhousing. Differs in shape from its 3000 counterpart

: The engine has received its correct paint

: Painted gearbox and overdrive

: Painted engine ancillaries. Painted in the correct hue

: Per Schoerner paid a very welcome visit to the work shop

: Choke bracket installed

: Weld nuts make an attachment for the choke split bracket

: These threads won´t strip as the originals very easily do

: Finished banjo, which fits a helicoil insert in the rocker pedestal

: Making a new banjo bolt for the rocker assembly oil feed

: Waiting to be painted

: Engine assembled

: The helicoil insert installed

: Tapping for a helicoil insert

: Drilling the stripped threads with the help of a guide

: The threads in the block for one of the cylinder head studs stripped

: Utilizing a push tool in order to install the crank damper

: Milling the engine back plate in order to accept the oil seal conversion

: Oil seal housing in place

: Tapping the drilled holes

: Drilling holes for rear oil seal conversion

: Forged pistons in block with valve pockets

: Making a heavy duty rear gasket with the help of an old block. Incorporated is a gasket for the oil seal conversion housing

: Gasket compound used together with the gasket

: Pistons and rods fitted

: Watch out leaking aluminium oil pans. Some suppliers have supplied these for years without improvement

: Finally an anti roll bar can be fitted. This doesn´t hurt the road holding

: New piece welded in place and painted

: New metal being shaped

: Incorrect repair to front chassis leg. ARB can´t be fitted

: New Cunifer brake pipes

: Asssembled pedal box

: Restored parts for pedal box

: Rear floor carpets

: Front and floor carpets

: Rear carpets

: Carpet covering inner sill

: The sill carpets are the first pieces to be installed

: Tar paper goes on the floors first. Just as original

: Piston mounted on connecting rod

: 84 mm forged Omega piston

: Crank being bolted down

: Main bearing shell with molybdenum disulphide

: Main bearings

: Camshaft in place

: 278° camshaft

: HD main bolts

: Heavy duty main bolts in place

: Engine ready for assembly

: On its, new, wheels again

: New front spring

: Setting 1° negative camber. Good for the road

: Initial setting of wheel geometry

: New rear hub

: Refurbished drum in place

: Cleaned

: It´s important to clean brake steady posts

: When converting to front discs don´t forget to fit smaller 3000 wheel cylinders

: New steering box and column

: New 3000 type steering box replacing inferior 100/6 type

: Restored idler in its place

: New idler oil seal

: Completed disc brake assembly on the car

: Stainless pistons for calipers

: Caliper halves painted and cleaned

: Hub and disc on stub axle

: Disc attached to hub

: Perfect fit of lower wishbone nylon bushes

: Mating new disc with new hub

: Bearing, spacer and shims waiting for new hub

: The splines on new steering wheels are too tight. They have to be ground with grinding compound

: Painted original rear brake drums

: Painted new type 14 Girling calipers

: Painted new petrol tank

: Extension assembly gearbox cover

: Trying fit to brake pedal shank

: New hole drilled

: Holes filled with brass solder

: Worn master cylinder push rods

: Shotblasted brake drums and new discs

: Polyurethane fulcrum bushes

: Perfect alignment with stiff bushes

: Lower wishbones fitted to chassis

: Nylon bushes fitted in lower wishbone

: Nylon bush being shaped to fit in lathe

: New rear spring

: New spring and old brake drum

: Heatshield kit in place

: BJ7/8 throttle linkage bracket

: Cleaned and painted

: Master cylinders have been leaking

: All nuts for heatshields in place

: Metal cleaned for nut to be welded

: Nuts for heatshield to be welded

: Hole repaired

: Holes in driver side floor

: Adjustable mounting plate in place

: Painted adjustable mounting plate

: Original method of spacing the pedals further apart

: The pushrods will be reused and holes repaired

: Old master cylinders will be discarded

: Pedal box removed

: Welded

: New adjustable mounting plate held in place with jig

: Removed

: Original LH mounting plate

: Mounting plate being held in place with jig and welded

: Purpose built jig for the fitting of new shocker mounting plates

: RH shock mounting plate removed

: Overdrive tested and adjusted before fitting to gearbox

: The complete assembly

: O/D ready to be mated to gearbox

: Completed 100/6 bellhousing with modified seal

: The all important bearing shim

: Rubber piece glued in place

: The important rubber piece

: Fork in place with new bushes and new shaft

: Reaming of the bushes to fit shaft

: New bush in place

: Bush has been pressed out of bellhousing

: Used 3 litre block in very good condition

: Painted wishbone bracket

: Modified and painted outrigger

: Cleaned and painted

: Wishbone bracket sans paint

: Wishbone brackets losing it´s paint after burning the bushes

: Welded outrigger

: The cut is finished

: Cutting outrigger with plasma

: Modifying left front outrigger to take tubular exhaust

: Completed king pin and stub axle assembly

: NOS Quinton Hazell king pin set. Superior quality

: It´s important to ream these bushes in line

: Reaming bottom king pin bush

: Pressing out old king pin bush

: Painted front suspension parts

: Bellhousing bored out to take modern oil seal

: Bellhousing set up in lathe for machining

: 100/6 sealing method for 1st motion shaft

: Heavily worn clutch fork shaft

: All wishbone arms free at last

: Pin assy that has been cut with torch

: Original bushing. The metal part often rusts with the pin making it very hard to dismantle

: Cut pin assy and bush that has been burnt in order to dismantle

: Weld nut had worked loose so screw had to be drilled

: Tired old Longbridge engine lifted out of car

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