Vauxhall Firenza nutcase, Terry Price,  is on a project that will get shot of the original 2.3 slant 4 in his Droop Snoot and be replaced with a 3.0 litre 24 valve v6, fresh out of an Omega.

Terry is also the proud owner of a CanAm V8 Firenza made for the South African Can Am series of 1973. One of only 100 built, + the 3 works cars, Terry has the only original V8 Firenza currently in the UK.

He is now building a Droop Snoot Firenza and he asked RS Fabrications to fabricate a sump for the newly acquired 3.0 V6 lump.

Terry supplied the drawings, and we mean ‘drawings’!! Not CAD files printed or drawn or copies of prints, but black ink technical drawings on transparent paper, old styley.

The original sump flange was retained and mounted to tooling plate, then the sump was fabricated using 6mm NS4 Aluminium, bent and formed to Terry’s drawings.

Russell took on the forming & fabrication of the Al sheet, with Wayne taking on the welding duties.

The only tricky part was the parent metal of the flange not being as pure as the NS4 sheet that was being welded to it and aluminium welding rod suited to Al castings was deployed.

“We are just waiting to see what parts Terry comes up with next”, said Russell

“One thing we do know, they will be Firenza parts, unless Terry has had another bang on the head”!! he continued

We are all looking forward to seeing the finished article, a nice V6 twin manifold and exhaust set-up is surely on the cards!