DFASTEST951

Yeah, real pretty sound Tom. lol. I'm having Chris Cervelli rebuild mine. Are you doing your own?

Ski

chris cervelli rebuilt this car too...see what happened after the owner got it back?





However, I did sacrifice two beetles and one rollie pollie and the vented nose panel is about to brought back to life with a new coat of black paint.

DFASTEST951

Uh...who was the lucky owner and what happened?

Ski

John Lemm, got rear ended at Road America after he got the car back from Chris - new engine, tranny with custom gears (that tranny is in Lindseys yellow car now ) - and he did a roll over in the gravel pit and the rear of the car was knocked over a couple of inches. When I was parting the car, everytime I'd take something off from underneath, all this white gravel would come pouring out. I saved it and gave it back to him in a potted plant. This was two 4 years ago. Back on topic...

Kool

I have a 86 5 speed for sale $575. Let me know I can post or send pics.

EDIT: ok nevermind late again.

Tom M'Guinn

I don't have a plan yet -- need to research that a bit to find someone to do the work. I'll run the LSD spare in the meantime. I would like to strengthen it if possible and run a quaiffe, and look into the best gear ratios.

Made a bit of progress tonight -- wrestled the bad tranny out of the car. Not looking forward to lining up the coupler on reinstallation...

Tom M'Guinn

So is this a short shifter? Do I want it? Is it set for a reasonable throw?

lejams

Don't recognize it, but I have a SS and have it adjusted as tight as it'll go. Don't think I could live without. Going back to stock would feel too ah, slushy?

How can you do the writeup on your 3.0 build when you keep farting around with the TA?

Tom M'Guinn

I actually have half a write up for the engine build -- already 25+ pages... I'll get there eventually.

Anyone recognize the shifter?

Ian Carr

Did it sound some thing like this?

http://videos.streetfire.net/video/b...tiva_45953.htm

hehehe

DFASTEST951

Ski, that's a hell of a story. Now that you told it, I heard about it back when it happened but you tell it a lot better. A planter...lol.
TurboX, I don't know about Tom but mine sounded like the initial bang of a car accident. Then a loud metal to metal clatter all the way home, but not in second. Second was a big continous metal crunch. Nasty.

lejams

That's great Tom, I'd like to use it to build my 3.0. Who did your bore & hone work on the block?

Tom M'Guinn

Scott Gomes. (After a local shop ruined my original 968 block.) I highly recommend him -- he's in a different league than most, personally and professionally.

Tom M'Guinn

Yes, actually, pretty similar to that.

Good news is I had the LSD tranny waiting in the wings, and finished installing it this morning. Just took it on a test drive and all is good again at 18psi -- now with more traction!

333pg333

^^Excellent news Tom^^ Look forward to hearing some more progress of your car now.