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Or you can do it yourself with a little ingenuity a welder and a lot of patience http://www.classiczcars.com/forums/body-paint-s30/49186-rebuilding-my-71-a.html

It lives! Good oil pressure, no leaks, smokes a tad but that could be just from the first start up and the fact that its running super rich. Need to adjust the carbs and figure out the Petronix wiring still. Oh and repair part of the exhaust there is rusted through and broke open during install.

Ok so I decided to run the float as is and deal with it if it caused me grief. we'll see if I regret this decision but hey, I want to get this thing on the road dammit! Long story short, my 71' now has a freshly rebuilt L24 with a nice E31 head ( that needs valve guides at some point, but is straight and flat) along the a bitchin A series 5 speed tranny! At some point I'll want to find a 3.90 or 4.11 diff for it too but for now I'm gonna live with the stock diff. And here we are getting a shiny rebuilt engine, hopefully tomorrow I can have the first fire! And not the kind that i'll need my extinguisher for ;-)

So I pulled my carbs apart to clean them up again and noticed that the forward carb float ahs what appears to be some cracks in it. Any advice on if its still serviceable? See below: Thanks in advance

Thanks! Haven't done anything but remove the SMOG equipment from the manifold so far. I will rebuild them at some point but for now I'm going to pull the domes, clean up the bodies, adjust the floats and replace the feed tubes. Probably will do that tonight.

More Pix! Adjusted valves, installed heater hose bypass thingy and valve cover. Started cleaning up the carbs, they have been siting on the shelf in my garage pretty much as pictured below for 6 years..... Funny, as I was rotating the engine around to adjust the valves number 6 blew the towel I had stuffed in the spark plug hole half way across the garage! Scared the crap out of my cuz it made a resounding "POP" when it flew out I have the rest of the hardware soaking in cleaner overnight so hopefully tomorrow I can install the alternator, exhaust, distributer and maybe intake. Then this baby is just about done!

Little more done tonight, oil pan and a few more accessories on. One more good night of work like this and it might be ready to stick in car!

Exactly. We have crates of german beer ( 0,5 liter ) here by the way @ 2000JP: Looks good man !

Another update! Got the long block pretty much together, still have accessories and the oil pan to install but its looking like a real engine. Also got the air tube fittings welded up and installed to block off the ports in the exhaust mani. Bead blasted it as well and painted with VHT Flame Proof black. Picking up a oil pan gasket tonight and will get it installed, as well as probably the oil pump and the timing chain plate and fuel pump. Hopefully I can get it ready to drop in the ca this weekend and have the first fire soon!