fair doos thats one nice garage! oh and the car aint bad either lol
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fair doos thats one nice garage! oh and the car aint bad either lol
Just back from the garage! - The floors not so mint now, covered in mud dust from the car lol.
Me and my dad have been rushing to strip off all the bits i'm selling for thursday when he leaves for england to see his mum. I've swapped the axel over to my rear disc beam from NDZ 1331, just so i can throw some speedlines on and measure how much arch work needs done (hopefully very little as i want complete arches)
The brake servo and fuel tank are now off too, and once again no nasty supprised, still minty mint. Should be awesome once its dipped and e-coated next year.
Fingers crossed i can borrow an engine lift this weekend and trial fit the LET and sort the mount for the F28.
Keith
looking great, keep up the good work
Today we trial fitted the C20LET. It will be removed again for the shell to be strengthened and painted.
I'll let the pictures below do the talking (with some comments) Huge thanks to cormac for giving me his saturday, and a lend of his engine lift, cant thank you enough!
1.2 Engine stripped back.
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C.V Nuts removed.
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Sexy Cormac!
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Me Pulling a stupid face :wave:
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Engine Secured to be lowered down.
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Engine Dropped to the floor!
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Nice Empty bay - Its turbo time!
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Cormac Drilling out the spot welds for the old 5 speed mount.
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Engine with 6 speed, ready to be fitted.
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Lifting the shell up!
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Engine pushed under.
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Me all excited :P
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Up we go!!
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Woohoo!!! Its in and almost mounted up.
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Turbo cover and air filter in trial position. Looks awesome. But will be a million times cleaner for the final fit.
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Chris Astley mount for the 6 speed box, replaces the old mount that we drilled off.
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Look how close the F28 sits to the inner wing!
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Tight to the steering rack!
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This needs to go, so i can get better access.
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Remove Spot welds
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And its gone!
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And its now tucked away for the night!
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Thanks once again to cormac, and to Terri-Ann, it couldnt have been done without you.
NEXT ON THE ADJENDA:
Remove the engine again and send to S-Gault for a freshin up.
Send shell to get seam welded, the 6 speed mount and harry hockley strengthning kit to be welded in.
Thanks for looking!
Keith
looks like a good fun days work.:thumb:
Keith you crazzy lad...
your lagoon green one was well nice...fair play to taking on a new project mate..
i love the way you keep finding these mint novas in ireland though,you should become the irish nova secondhand dealer lol...
Keep us updated mate..
Good luck.
Scott