Re: Generator mount
This might sound stupid but if you machined off the fins where the mount needs to go and used a piece of flat plate with a hole cutout to go over the thermostat housing or even get sandwiched between the head and thermostat housing, plus a hole for the spark plug that would get you the start of something substantial enough to build a bracket out of and still keep the generator located high on the engine where it would look best. If you use an 8BA generator bracket, with the strap, it has a locating pin that fits in a hole in the generator’s housing. If your fabricated mount is off a little you can re-drill that hole to move the generator forward or backward to get your belt to lineup. The thermostat housing neck and hose will probably hit the generator, so you might find be able to find a housing that comes off at an angle. If your interested I believe, I have an Airtex illustrated parts catalog with photos of all the different thermostat housings. I This sounds like a fun project (challenge).
Years ago, I went to Al Sharps house (Sharp Speed Equipment). He was a really nice guy. It didn’t matter who you were or what you knew. If you were interested, he would take the time to share his knowledge with you. He was designing an air conditioning bracket for a flathead Ford in his ’40 or ’41 pickup. He was one of a just a few speed equipment manufacturers that had an actual college engineering degree, and he was brilliant pattern maker. The prototype air conditioning compressor bracket he was engineering was made from wood. Its fast, cheap and if you screw it up its easy to make a new one. He said, “if you have been a pattern maker for 15-year’s you’re still a half-assed pattern maker, you’re still learning”. While I was there, he was remaking his head patterns and intakes all out of wood. Because the foundry had lost the original core boxes. You should have seen these head patterns. The fins were made from rose wood and dove tailed into the heads. Each of them accurate to within .004”. He was also working on the intake runners. All carved from wood. They were impressive!
What I learned that day was if you want to fabricate something you make it out of wood first, the old school way.
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