News Briefs :-

27/08/2008 - Works progressing well now. Car is basically there now, ran into a couple of issues recently that has held it up quite a bit such as a failed clutch release bearing after everything was in which entailed everything coming out again, the sump collapsed and ended up hitting the crank as it went around and the biggest was trying to get hold of a diff flange, initially we only though there were two sizes where it ended up being three and we managed to get every size bar the one we needed. we finally go one (thank you eBay :) ).

However this did give us time to look a couple of other areas that we were going to put off till we had more time but we went ahead anyway, we managed to get a geared starter motor to replace the aging standard one which is not only lighter and smaller it can turn the engine over even when hot and only draws between 2 and 4 volts when cranking which is a massive drop. this also means we can remove it without taking half the engine out like the current model. we have also had time to put a proper electronic speedo in now with an electronic sender unit on the gearbox. Pictures of all these are in the new build section which i have reordered to split the images.

 
 
 

Updated - 02/09/2008