Cut down or modified cam cover and gears

Woo · Postby **Woo** » Sun Jul 23, 2006 10:58 am

With the arrival of cams and gears, I'm looking to cutdown a cover to provide access to the gears.

Has anyone done the cutdown before? How difficult was it? Anything I should be especially careful of?

Might do a polish or paint while I'm there

Cheers
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Postby **Boyracer** » Sun Jul 23, 2006 11:31 am

Very easy to cut with a thin metal cutting wheel on a angle grinder...make sure you wear a dust mask when you do it.

I put this on your Wanted add...NB has a cam position sensor on the front of the cover so might be difficult to cut down.

SuperMazdaKart · Postby **SuperMazdaKart** » Sun Jul 23, 2006 11:47 am

isn't it just much easier to use the cover from a 1.8 323/Familia GTR which already has a seperate cover for the gears

Woo · Postby **Woo** » Sun Jul 23, 2006 7:06 pm

Cheers Lou, (thought I'd reply here) I was thinking I would cut on a 45* angle to leave the CAS solidly supported.

I'm interested in the 323/GTR route, sounds like it would be a much easier path. Are they readily available? How much are they worth?

Having said that, as the stock cover has the separtion wall between cam side and gear side and as I was still hoping to have a top covering the gears, hopefully a NB cover will turn up soon as it would provide a solid top.

Anyone have any pics of how they have cut/modified their covers?

eg: Polished, painted, sliced or diced

Thanks
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SuperMazdaKart · Postby **SuperMazdaKart** » Sun Jul 23, 2006 7:56 pm

Flyin Miata work of art

race prepped racer in Japan, looks incredibly simple but i know it aint

i didn't know the NB had a CAS in the front? so the car has two or was the one from the rear now moved to the front?

finding a Familia/323 cover might be difficult, an auto wrecker i'd think would want to sell it with the whole engine. unless maybe you can find an engine thats too far gone & beyond repairable/rebuildable. ebay/ebay international?