A couple of questions

[Mike Brewer]

Hi All.A few more questions.How close is your gear stick .2.8 V6 Five Speed to the hand break when in fifth gear as mine touches the hand break.i just looked at a picture of a car for sale hand break looks angled to the right when on .Had a lot of play in gear stick had it welded .my stick has no bend on the bottom of stick.An other question how many 2.8 convertables were made .Four speed .And five speed .Still waiting to have clutch cable fitted.Busy painting Chassis.............Cheers Mike

[adam quantrill]

Even on the V8's the handbrake lever is very close to the gearstick on fifth and it's fairly susal that the lever is bent over at about 10-20 degrees away from the gearstick to give enough room. If you are going to do this it's best to take off the centre leather bit over the transmission tunnel because you can then make sure that the lever, when bent over, still works the handbrake switch correctly, or else the light won't go out reliably.

[Waynester]

My g/stick is nowhere near the handbrake lever... Mind you on my seac it's an umbrella style under the dash.

And a quality item it is too

[rev-erend]

Waynester said:

My g/stick is nowhere near the handbrake lever... Mind you on my seac it's an umbrella style under the dash.

And a quality item it is too

Don't remind me .. I had to do a hill start at a T junction in Phil's SEAC on Sunday ..

Imagine trying to sctatch you knee, whilst controlling the clutch and accelerator and looking for traffic .. oh almost forgot .. as the handbrake is nearly useless rolling backwards.. no fun at all.

Why oh why did TVR decide to not install a proper handbrake on the SEAC.. I'll never know.

[Grady]

As much as I want one, I don't know where I'd put a 5th gear - I'm up against the brake handle now in 3rd & 4th now

[KelWedge]

HANDBRAKE

Whats that then?
Is that the thing, it fails an MOT on, that only MOT chap users!

[taz turbo]

The gear levers were modified at the factory, basicly allowing the lever to enter the car in the 'correct' position, you could modify what you have, I'm sure this would improve matters, but I would recommend you also fit a 'quickshift' type kit, its basicly a spacer between the gear lever assy and gearbox, makes the change a little heavier, but shorter throws and more precise.

A quick flea bay search, this is the first one I found.... http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/ESCORT-MK1-MK2-CAPRI-2-8i-SI... if it's a good price or not I don't know.

Regards,

Chris.