{"id":114,"date":"2004-07-17T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2004-07-17T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2011-04-01T16:56:45","modified_gmt":"2011-04-01T16:56:45","slug":"bel-air\/mmmmm-shiny-bits","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/project55.co.uk\/?p=114","title":{"rendered":"Mmmmm Shiny Bits"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve been collecting bits for a while, and having them shipped to a shipping agent in New York ready to bring across. I had collected most of the parts I wanted to build the 400 into a blower motor, with an all forged rotating assembly, along with hundreds of nuts and bolts to put the car back together. <\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/files\/BelAir\/2004\/07\/SexyJEPiston.jpg\" width=\"443\" height=\"307\" alt=\"SexyJEPiston.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p>I spent a good few hours going through it all, double checking everything was correct, and was all there. I&#8217;ve never seen forged rods or pistons before, and I think they are a thing of beauty. I spent ages just looking at them, then had to pack it all away for a few months at least. It will give me something to do in the winter I suppose. Among the boxes was a new gearbox cross member, and a new 700R4 gearbox which was too big for the boot on my trusty Volvo. I&#8217;ll bring it home from work in the company van when I&#8217;ve got five minutes. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve been collecting bits for a while, and having them shipped to a shipping agent in New York ready to bring across. I had collected most of the parts I wanted to build the 400 into a blower motor, with an all forged rotating assembly, along with hundreds of nuts and bolts to put the car back together. <\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/sites\/default\/files\/BelAir\/2004\/07\/SexyJEPiston.jpg\" width=\"443\" height=\"307\" alt=\"SexyJEPiston.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p>I spent a good few hours going through it all, double checking everything was correct, and was all there. I&#8217;ve never seen forged rods or pistons before, and I think they are a thing of beauty. I spent ages just looking at them, then had to pack it all away for a few months at least. It will give me something to do in the winter I suppose. Among the boxes was a new gearbox cross member, and a new 700R4 gearbox which was too big for the boot on my trusty Volvo. I&#8217;ll bring it home from work in the company van when I&#8217;ve got five minutes. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-114","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/project55.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/114","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/project55.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/project55.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/project55.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/project55.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=114"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/project55.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/114\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/project55.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=114"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/project55.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=114"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/project55.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=114"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}