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Suresh and I have been baffled in the past days. There is an area in the engine bay, the purpose of which we could not figure out. It is the slanted area next to the fuel lines. Neither of our cars had anything there. After looking around online, and shifting through the manual, we realized it is the place for the carburetor cooling fan. Since we are in the hot desert, it is quite important to have that, according to the manual.

We could not find a part for sale anywhere online, so we were quite sad. Our last hope was to call up Jim (whose car we checked out the very first time - first blog entry), and ask him if we could see if he has the part and possibly take it.

I went over today to find his car's engine bay completely used by pack rats as a home. Quite disgusting. I actually found a dead rat as well.

However, I also found the part! Hurray! I quickly removed it and installed it in our car.

Here are some pics of the part installed, with the firewall as well!

/Andras/






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I managed to get the wiring out of the donor car and transfer it over. I am right now only concentrating on finishing the engine bay for the weekend. Italian design, quite amazing actually, the full cabling is just one huge "snake"...

Here are some pics




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