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You have had some really cool ideas…. I like watching this build…

Didn’t get a chance on Friday to get some steel for making brackets so had a fiddle with the radiator and measured up for fans after chasing an elusive electrical problem with the VS



Want to swap filler and top hose side to side and fit a divider in the drivers side tank - should work out OK , and mount a couple of fans on the front of the rad - only got 40mm of space on the back


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Gee that left handed upper thermo housing is pretty trick. Prolly make yer fortune selling them on e bay.


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Got the brake , clutch and fuel lines sorted today, after wasting some time working on a poxy EK





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Nice work blacky, must be putting plenty of coffee in those bourbons.

Bump for Marko ......

This may come as a shock , but I did some work on the rattler today

Got the gearbox back from being beefed up so it was time to finish that part of things off , first thing was modify the base of the short shifter as the US extension housing has a different bolt pattern to the Aussie ones - of course



Mounting holes got a bit close to the base so had to blow the cobwebs off the mill and whizz a bit out




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It ain’t pretty but it fits




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Next step was cut a hole in the floor and brace it, hole saw sorted the first bit out , then used a bit of CAD to sort the brace out.






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Bit of seam sealer and a coat of underbody goo and it’s ready to go back in , except it seems to me I have the wrong throw out bearing, will have to ring the peckerheads at CRS on Monday to sort it out




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Good work Blacky,

I may have missed it but whats the gearbox ?

Greg

Tremec?


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It’s a T5

Good to see you are back on the Rattler mate.

Blacky wrote: Fri Feb 04, 2022 12:59 am Mounted it all up and it works OK need to find an opposite handed retainer clip tomorrow then I need to make a mount for the cable and that’s another fiddly job done





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Blacky is there any chance of getting some measurements of this as I may have to do the same