Morris
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I've had my Humber Hawk for 6 years now. It was bought as the picture and has a Rover V8 and 5 speed box. Rear end is a Chevy 10 bolt with LSD.
It was my daily for a while but the steering effort began to become a bit tedious particularly as I got older. So it got used less.
Then the LT77 destroyed itself so the spare I got with it went in.
Then the Rover started to do what Rovers do and leak oil. This dripped onto the exhaust and smoked-lots. So it got parked.
Fast forward a bit and a a pile of Chrysler engine and box showed up on Retro Rides so off the Chester I went to collect it.
Meanwhile the Humber looks neglected.
This was stripped and found to be a freshly machined engine badly built (I always strip any engine new to me).
So over the course of the last year or so it has been slowly rebuilt with new high comp pistons, 268 degree cam, double roller timing chain, ported heads, new oil pump, baffled sump and a few other bits. The 904 Torqueflite has been completely rebuilt to heavy duty spec. A spare high stall torque converter came in the deal but had been left with the snout uncovered for years so that went off for split/rebuild and reweld.
This is today. The eagle eyed will notice it has a trigger wheel and sensor mount on it. I made these up with future plans in mind.
Wifey is off to visit friends in Scotland in a week so I'm hoping to get a bit done then.
It was my daily for a while but the steering effort began to become a bit tedious particularly as I got older. So it got used less.
Then the LT77 destroyed itself so the spare I got with it went in.
Then the Rover started to do what Rovers do and leak oil. This dripped onto the exhaust and smoked-lots. So it got parked.
Fast forward a bit and a a pile of Chrysler engine and box showed up on Retro Rides so off the Chester I went to collect it.
Meanwhile the Humber looks neglected.
This was stripped and found to be a freshly machined engine badly built (I always strip any engine new to me).
So over the course of the last year or so it has been slowly rebuilt with new high comp pistons, 268 degree cam, double roller timing chain, ported heads, new oil pump, baffled sump and a few other bits. The 904 Torqueflite has been completely rebuilt to heavy duty spec. A spare high stall torque converter came in the deal but had been left with the snout uncovered for years so that went off for split/rebuild and reweld.
This is today. The eagle eyed will notice it has a trigger wheel and sensor mount on it. I made these up with future plans in mind.
Wifey is off to visit friends in Scotland in a week so I'm hoping to get a bit done then.