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I didn't think of hinging the whole gill, Percy- that would have been simpler! The first one of those I saw was on Guy Trigaux GT-4 racer #2860 and it looked slick!  I didn't want to cut my stock die-cast right gill, so decades ago I took some molding silicone and made a mold of the stock right gill, then cast a duplicate from fiberglas mat & epoxy. (Nowadays, you could print a gill.) Then I cut a 3-1/2" hole in the plastic gill and copied the stock left side fuel gill's hinge design in half-hard aluminum. I made a large 1 gallon aluminum swirl tank & bolted it down on the end of the right rocker panel. I ran a welded pipe with a rad-cap from the new swirl tank up to the proper area. All this was for service convenience with a stock look, and its worked well for us over the years. Few even notice the hinged cap.

Later, I modified a scrap Aviaid 10-qt oil pan for a mid-pan dipstick that reaches up between #3 & 4 header tubes and terminates in that same area under the gill opening. So I can check oil AND water level without opening the decklid, and along with modern small dia. deck struts, it clears the whole engine corner for much better #3 & 4 spark plug access.  A 351-W dipstick & guide tube from a van is extremely long and can be cut down to fit almost anything. That allowed me to remove the stock top routing of the Pantera dipstick & clean up that area, too. Incidentally, all this is a copy of the positioning that Porsche uses on the mid-engined Boxter for their remote radiator cap and oil dipstick.

One of these days I'll install the modified pan and write an illustrated article for the POCA Newsletter....

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