The cylinder head caused a lot of pain.

 As the car stood for decades, the valves were in open position in two cylinders. In theese cylinders, the alloy of the head oxided very-very badly. We had quite bad feelings about it. We even bought another cylinder head, just in case the repair procedure doesnt work.

Finaly I found a company, who had experience with theese heads, and gave them a chance. Inspite, they did a perfect job. They velded up the missing material, replaced the valve seats, valve guides, cut new seatings in a manner just as I wanted, line bored the camshaft bearing caps, and skimmed all the mating surfaces. I was very pleased

Polishing as per factory.

Nice "Old gold" paint.

New valves.

Camshaft bearing clearances checked.

Also each valve giude-to-stem clearance was checked.

Just as the spring heights.

Finaly we put in the valves. 

The engine block was linered and bored to accept std size pistons. The deck face was skimmed to restore the true surface.

We removed the core plugs and the oil gallery plugs, to clean the block throughly.

We never sand blast engines, as You cannot clean the dust out of the oil galleries, soo it took a lot of elbow grease/rust treating liquid to remove the rust from block. 

We replaced all the core plugs.

It was finaly ready just before Easter.

Repainting the suspension parts is also not straight foreward. We had to use some filler to get rid of the worst rust damage.

We always do as much of the plating preparation as possible to get the best result, and to prevent parts getting lost.

To get close to factory specification, we black passivated zinc plating.

After washing and applying a thin clearcoat, the bolts were sorted and put away until needed.

Getting on with the bodywork.

The work on the body is developing well. The frame is ready, and most of the inner parts of the bodywork were reproduced. We still have some work left though.

The bulkhead was a very complicated task. There was not even a square inch of metal that could be saved. Now it is all brand new.

To keep all the parts at their correct position and correct dimension, the panels were replaced one-by-one

Even the gearbox cover needed to be reproduced.

Some body lines are starting to show off.

Together with some gaps.

But still a lot of work is left.

Collecting the metal for recycling.