Progress report.

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Got a lot done the weekend, but found a few things I need to do.
Like the doors top frames are shot.
But the car is now striped, and all the bolts are other bits holding the body to the chassis are removed. so just need to lift the body.

See pics.

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Well the body is now off,

Thanks to a PH post, and have 6 people I did not know bofore turning up to help take the body off.

Plus 4 others I did know.

Made the job so easy.

Does not look at as hard as I thought to get the engine in.

Have to make some changes to the gearbox mounts, and put new engine mounts in.

but there is enough space for every thing, as far as I can work out.

I'm going to mount the engine and gearbox about an inch further back, and mount the gearbox in line with the main chassis tubes. instead of in front.
and going to have a bolt in mounting brace, to make it easier to remove.

plus have a bolt in lower chassis brace, under the gearbox.

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I got all the bits,

Need to get the block tested.

Why's that.

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few more pic's down to the bare bones now.

I've cut out all the brackets that are not needed. inc the old gearbox and engine mounts.

Edited by TVRleigh_BBWR on Wednesday 23 January 17:25

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Well the Idea, is to put every thing in place then fill with expanding foam.
Wait it to set.
make mould from foam, then make brackets fit the mould.

I have a friend who has a bolt in SD1 Gearbox bracket, so going to see if I can use that.

Leigh

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Well got the engine in the 280 (well Graham's spare 350 engine as mine is still in the shop) and the engine brackets tacked into place, need to do the gearbox mounts, and then take it all out and weld it fully.

Had to shorten the SD1 engine mounts to make it fit. will take pic's of the engine to chassis mounts once the engine is out again.

See pic's

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going to have to cut the headers back a bit, may have to have a bulge also

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kg55 said:

leaving the seebring stickers on wont get you any sponsor money leigh ive already had it £0.00 so far

I'll just put a X though them

I did say I'd get a Rv8 to fix, was very tight though.

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Got my block back with tophats,

But have now been told all the head threads are U/S.

So asked why they did not tell me this before charging me £900. they said I never asked them to check them. FFS well put new liners in a naff block. They wanted another £250 to fix them, so told them where to stick them.

Wish I bought a new Cosworth block now.

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Well they are repairable but was not going to pay they £235 fit helicoils, esp after them not checking them in the 1st place.

Going to get Time-Serts and fit them.

Thanks for the offer Dave.

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Chassis 33 said:

TVRleigh_BBWR said:

Got my block back with tophats,

But have now been told all the head threads are U/S.

So asked why they did not tell me this before charging me £900. they said I never asked them to check them. FFS well put new liners in a naff block. They wanted another £250 to fix them, so told them where to stick them.

Wish I bought a new Cosworth block now.

Surely they checked the engine over to find if as fit for purpose? I would of thought running a tap down each thread would of been a basic requirement of that. Also how do you clamp the block to machine out the old liners, and what about blocking off the water channels to pressure check it?
Regards
Iain

That's what I thought, I asked why, and they said I never asked them to check the Threads FFS.

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Dave PORTER said:

You may be better off buying an oversize head stud kit from arp,you will have to slightly drill out the heads, that will prevent any furher problems, as used on the old tuscan RV8.

Will I've allready paid for a standard set, else would have been a good idea.
hopfully there not all U/S as I'll just have to repair a few.

Leigh

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Ok a few pic's of New Engine and Gearbox brackets.

Sorry for quality but taken on phone as camera is broken.

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Ok Chassis is all welded up and stripped and painted with POR15

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yes and the bast4rd has it in there kitchen.

I need to get a new camera as the phone one is just not upto it.

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I've only got 2 myself.

I could use a few more myself.

9 x 9 16" Tuscan wheels
2 x 10 16" Oz split rim 5 Spokes.
4 x 8.5 15" 400SE wheels.
2 x 8.0 15" 350SE wheels

Plus 4 of the 400SE

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TVRleigh_BBWR said:

Ok Chassis is all welded up and stripped and painted with POR15

Surprised no one has made a pun about the car driving me up the wall.

nice to see people are looking though.

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Barkychoc said:

Leigh - looking good.
I don't know if it will be an issue but in the S the rear gearbox mount is mounted to the chassis via rubber bushes.
If you need any pics let me know.

Chris

I'm still using the standard SD1 rubbers fitted to the rear of the gearbox.

so it will have some give.

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Got the body back on.

So its all moving forward now.

Had to mod the new engine mount to get the steering rod at to work at the correct angle.

Also need a bit more work getting the Corsa column fitted. buy it's 90% there.
will have to mount the electrics on the body.

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Small update.

New PAS system is now in and working, well need to sort the PAS bit, but going to re-do most of the wiring.

Made custom brackets for new Rad. and did test install of rad, and then removed.
Test fitted bonnet, and re-fitted bonnet fixings

Fitted 2 fuel pumps, 1 Swirl pot and 1 Filter. and all wiring and plumbing.
Fitted Fuel Lines and Returns

Fitted trigger wheel to crank pullie.
Removed Crank.
Boxed up Crank, Flywheel, Clutch and pully, piston etc ready for balancing.