Little bit of an update.....
Left the engine at the importers for the last couple of months while I have been doing battle royal with HMRC (read THIEVES), about huge amounts of VAT rebate - looks like I have won albeit I do not know to what degree yet
I fetched the engine on Wednesday and was asked what it was for..... told the forklift driver expecting ...."yeah, I had one of those.....it was a Samuri". Instead I got... never heard of it but it sounds like the ones the bloke over there in that shed has got .... went to have a look and sure enough there was a 260 and a 240... met Tel240z .... top bloke !!!!
Thanks for making me welcome Terry ... most people just throw stuff ..
Have to say, the engine is mint, I only just avoided the temptation to lick it
Spoke to Laurence yesterday who is now fighting the e-coaters on my behalf as there seems to have been an air pocket inside the roof and the e-coating has started to bubble, not on for something with 10 years guarantee or whatever it is. The plan is to get them to recoat it, then lead load where appropriate and straighten out the few dinks that are in the quarters and the roof now .....then onwards and upwards.
A very credible engineer has slapped me about a bit and told me with the power I have NOT to use tubular wishbones but to use reinforced standard ones .... who am I to argue ?? He has also suggested I sell my Arizona Z billet moustache bar in favour of a spring steel Kameari one.
Alan Thomas supplied me with a superb 3.9 NISMO LSD diff a while ago but again, on advice from those that know about this stuff (you know who you are ) I will be replacing the NISMO LSD at some stage soon with the Quaife ATB. I have already got the companion flanges (Diff and Hub sides) from Laurence which are built like a brick lavatory, last night we sorted out fully CV jointed driveshafts and gaiters which will arrive by the end of July. These, like the companion flanges are the ones that go on the Safari cars and are supposedly nigh on indestructable. Something to do with grade of steel used .... not sure whether it is the emperor's new cloithes but terms like F1 and figures like "rated to 1000BHP" have been bandied about. Either way, I should not break them
Left to get :
Billet aluminium hubs
Brakes
Wheels & tyres
Engine fitting kit
Custom prop shaft
Fuel cell
Radiator
Custom stainless exhausts
Adjustable platform coilovers
All of the rest is brand new, boxed and waiting (looms, brightwork, glass, trim, switchgear etc). There will be lots of little odds and sods like the battery etc, and as we all know I will need to save up for the cost of the paint and interior trim but most of the bits are now assembled in a big heap, time to get the car build underway ....... It will not be taken back to the e-coaters for about two weeks then God only knows how long it will stay there but when it comes back the build should start.
27 months and I still do not have the finished shell......................... fortunately other stuff has been bought, sourced, decided upon etc in the meantime so when it gets to build time it should move fairly quickly.
