My Mk3 Roadster 3SGTE Build

[biteme]

Not knowing a great deal on the Mk3, I can't comment too much, but you ask most people who like fast cars, if they'd like to sacrifice a little weight for a lot more power, I can guess what their answers would be :)

[loadswine]

You always get the odd purist saying "you'll upset the balance". In the real world, it will be more fun, and that is the bottom line for most of us.
You're right though Johnny!

[biteme]

You always get the odd purist saying "you'll upset the balance". In the real world, it will be more fun, and that is the bottom line for most of us.
You're right though Johnny!

Aye, fuck the purists, that's not what TB is! If it was, we'd be having threads about swapping polish and rubbing compounds, not engines!

They can chomp on my fucking hairy bean bag! Feck 'em! In fact, feck everyone. That's my thought for the day! :thumbsup:

[Charged]

Fuck you too Johnny! :) :mods:

[biteme]

Fuck you too Johnny! :) :mods:

You'd love to, but, sunshine, I'm outta your league ;)

Anyways, back on topic. Gary, when are you getting this finished? :P

[Gary Symons]

Anyways, back on topic. Gary, when are you getting this finished? :P

Well I only get weekends to play now so it will be a while. Should have the engine hanging properly in the bay this weekend.

[Gary Symons]

Today we did a little more work on the gearbox mount.



Here it is test fitted, it looks like we will need to increase the height of the chassis cutout to allow the engine to be craned in as the gearbox was hitting the upper part.


Here is the RH side engine mount, its still not finished but you get the idea.



And a pic of it fitted:



Finally heres a shot of the engine hanging properly in the bay, im pretty please with its position.



next on the list is the front and rear torque mounts :thumbsup:

[biteme]

Glad to see the progress Gaz, if an engineer is happy with it, then it must be good! :)

[snowtigger]

looking good there gary loving the engineering work good progress.

[Paul Woods]

I like the way you have made the chassis mount unboltable, so it is reversible back to stock if you ever decided not to stick with the 3s, pretty cool that.