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Originally Posted by pee wee
A Sammio / Ribble profile without the flip front would work for me.
I like the cockpit location / bonnet length etc of the Sammio original but the flip front would be better if it didn't , if you know what I mean !
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For my two new pennies worth I was so glad of the flip front when the clutch failed and I had to take the engine out to replace it.
Access to the nuts'n'bolts that hold the engine to the gearbox bellhousing is pretty tight even with the bonnet completely removed. With all the nuts and bolts removed, my six pot is a heavy old lump of cast iron that has a will of its own once it gets free of the gearbox input shaft, which takes an awful lot of wiggling wobbling and winching in itself.
I wouldn't have fancied the chances of my paint job escaping unscathed from my single handed approach to engine removal if I'd had to feed it out of a conventional hole in the bonnet.
Each to their own though whichever one of these cars you end up building it's going to look the business.
