The Fauxrrari

[OlberJ]

Well, it arrived yesterday. Cheers to Paul and no doubt Anth who gave it a wash :)



Paul kept the engine and box so i just had to start tidying up.



Measured up the gearbox and i'm happy where it will go in. Off to buy some cutting discs to make a big hole in the boot floor and relieve some parts of the subframe.

It's going to be tight around the driveshaft area but i reckon i can make it work fairly easy.

All the front firewall gubbins will have to be relocated but that's nowt.

Really excited to get this done now!

[OlberJ]

Should look a lot better at the right height.

[geoff]

Good luck with this Olber.

So what power plant you going for in this?

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[OlberJ]

:D

[Paul Woods]

I'll be following this one with great interest young Olber, he's going V8 Geoff :thumbsup:

[OlberJ]

Was it Mk3 gear cables you used Paul? Or custom jobbies?

[Paul Woods]

Mk3 mate, the best way is to make your box linkage work, mount the cables at the rear and then do all of your extending inside the cabin, i only had to add a few inches of inner rod to the Mk3 cables.

[OlberJ]

I might have a look and see if i can find some longer standard cables but if there's nowt else out suitable i'll sort this. Your gear change in the Mk1 did feel pretty damn mechanical mind you.

[Paul Woods]

It worked out really well, i love the gearchange best of all, it's just so direct, you KNOW you're in gear! I think it has much more to do with the Audi synchro hub design rather than my gear linkage design though.

[OlberJ]

Aye, just didn't fancy any flex at the selector end detracting from it.

Measuring up, the gearbox is gonna sit pretty far back towards the rear bumper. 99% sure it'll all fit in or it'll be out with the fibreglass.

Going to leave a frame around the gearbox and simply have a cover for it so that i can access the box and linkage and then have a usable boot when it's needed.