The Miura project begins (Page 27/84)
Fierology NOV 23, 08:07 PM
The original was a transverse v12. The engine block and tranny were cast as a single piece.

Here's a wealth of Muira info:

http://web-cars.com/miura/engine.php

Archie, will you be putting an SV emblem on it?
Austrian Import NOV 23, 10:25 PM

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Originally posted by Fierology:

The original was a transverse v12. The engine block and tranny were cast as a single piece.

Here's a wealth of Muira info:

http://web-cars.com/miura/engine.php

Archie, will you be putting an SV emblem on it?



They fixed a lot of these issues with the SV.
The transverse layout was inspired by the Austin Mini.
http://video.google.com/vid...bCQ&q=top+gear+miura
Kelvin Vivian NOV 25, 04:43 PM
Nice workmanship on the chassis and body... *bump*

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Fierology NOV 25, 09:59 PM

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Originally posted by Austrian Import:


They fixed a lot of these issues with the SV.



What issues?
bubbajoexxx DEC 10, 07:46 PM
Archie whats up 11 pages back had a hard time finding the build and no updates please we need to see more
Austrian Import DEC 26, 04:31 PM
http://www.autoblog.com/200...or-cali-restoration/



The gorgeous Lamborgnini Miura chassis.
That transverse V-12 just looks stunning.
Amida DEC 26, 05:40 PM
That is really packed in there.
Archie DEC 27, 09:29 PM
A long overdue update.

We've been working on a lot of different things.

Let's see if I can show you the highlights of everything we've been working on.

We did some basic fitting of the seats into the car..... I'll have more detailed pics later.



We also are working on fitting the rear bumper/grill into the car...









Whenever we're working on one of these projects, we usually are working on 2 or 3 different parts of the car at the same time.

Same thing goes for this car......

We started working on installing the nose grill.......

That's when we noticed that the grill opening in the nose was for a standard Miura......



See the pointed ends on either end of the grill opening?



Then notice how the grill frame insert is rounded on the ends, like the SV opening is....



The ogiginal parking lights we had we not going to work with that grill insert so the owner of the car quickly found some RAV-4 lights on EBay that are going to work out good.







So to make all that fit, it's going to take some cutting & fiberglassing...........

Archie DEC 27, 09:43 PM
Here Kris has done some cutting & fitting of the grill instert into the grill opening....





Now that we know it's going to work, it's time to make the opening around the grill insert look like it was an exact fit.









In the meantime we've also been working on the door latches....









Every once in a while you gotta step back & see where you are. Here the front clip is off for glassing the nose area, the doors are open while we work on the latches & the rear clip is open as we start working on the rear clip latches.



The grill opening looks a lot better when the front clip is right side up & back on the car....







And finally, few in-process pics of the rear clip latches.....





Archie
PaulJK DEC 28, 02:47 AM

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Originally posted by Bridgetown:

... rebodies for a fiero ... along side the Pantera and the Reventon.




Reventon rebody for a fiero ?! - sure would like to see a link to that source or website ....