My new project.........

butzsi · Post by **butzsi** » Tue Mar 23, 2010 8:47 pm

Mike wrote:for you Chris, all the Guinness you can drink

Do you know how much Guiness I can drunken? Have you been looking through my window again ?

Chris

pb911 · Post by **pb911** » Tue Mar 23, 2010 9:26 pm

" Do you know how much Guiness I can drunken? "

Think that line speaks for itself really Chris !

butzsi · Post by **butzsi** » Wed Mar 24, 2010 7:59 pm

that is what I said diddle I... (move to other thread please)

Chris

butzsi · Post by **butzsi** » Wed Mar 24, 2010 9:36 pm

butzsi wrote: (move to other thread please)

Chris

Is there an AA thread?

Mike · Post by **Mike** » Wed Mar 24, 2010 10:12 pm

Chris, you're only hitting the bottle because your TV's broken!

Mike · Post by **Mike** » Fri Mar 26, 2010 1:49 pm

Finished off the gearbox internals with K nuts and washers on the 'teddy bear', this stainless steel bearing
retainer plate is used to hold the thrust bearings and keep the shafts correctly spaced while strengthening
the magnesium case.

Lock-wired the selector fork bolts after setting up their positions and gap before torquing up and
using 'idiot stick' yellow on the fastenings.

The oil pump gears are fitted up in the machined end cover then fettled and shimmed to spin freely in the new housing.

Oil scavenge pick up and oil pressure relief valve pictured at the top, and just under it you can see the drive for the oil pump gears.

Here's the new RSR oil pump take-off housing we had cast, this is where the oil lines to the cooler connect.

and Neil even managed to come up with original nuts to hold it on, extra tall with helicoil inserts for some reason......

The assembled end case is offered up for a trial fit.

Mitch · Post by **Mitch** » Fri Mar 26, 2010 6:48 pm

Mike I've lost count of the numbers of times it's been said on this thread, but worth saying again...great pics and it's a thing of rare beauty!

And I still think that it would make a really good book.

Mike · Post by **Mike** » Sat Mar 27, 2010 12:44 am

thanks Mitch, good of you to say! As for a book I know you mentioned it before but I didn't want to tempt fate,
now there's light at the end of the tunnel it's certainly something to think about

911hillclimber · Post by **911hillclimber** » Sat Mar 27, 2010 7:13 am

I think we all sincerely hope you can collate all this together in a Book/ CD etc format.

What a car and what a commitment to the project.

I cannot get over the detail, and those special nuts just about sum it up!

Maybe one day I will see it in the flesh.

FAB!

Graham.

Mike · Post by **Mike** » Wed Mar 31, 2010 4:17 pm

Just to make a change from the oily 'hard' bits, some of the 'soft' furnishings are coming together, here's a little taster............

Mike · Post by **Mike** » Fri Apr 09, 2010 7:17 pm

Just going back to the bonnet a minute, Paul Martin from Altamura Design http://www.altamura.co.uk/ has just sent me a couple of
pictures taken by Stuart the painter on his mobile phone to show some of the masking involved. That's Stuart lacquering at the end.

oliveR · Post by **oliveR** » Sat Apr 10, 2010 6:46 pm

Impressive work Mike !!!!

bjmullan · Post by **bjmullan** » Sun Apr 11, 2010 11:27 am

The bonnet is a work of art on it's own!

So Mike do you have a date for our diaries yet?........

Mike · Post by **Mike** » Sun Apr 11, 2010 11:50 am

Thanks Oliver for the comment, and Brendan this coming week should see the cams back at long last
so hoping to be able to plan a date for the firing up 'party' shortly, watch this space!

willbrown · Post by **willbrown** » Sun Apr 11, 2010 7:35 pm

Mike wrote:Thanks Oliver for the comment, and Brendan this coming week should see the cams back at long last
so hoping to be able to plan a date for the firing up 'party' shortly, watch this space!