Lee's Garage

[spanishfly]

Why is my engine and box sitting on a green carpet! I want it to be red... thats just slowed it down

[lee303]

thats why i put it there, obviously

[sbd16vastra]

thats why i put it there, obviously

paint it green before he collects it lmaolmaolmao

[lee303]

i couldnt do that to him, pink could maybe work though...

[t45_ste]

Woo, my dry sump kit is getting closer : )

[William]

ta for the beef lee.

[Giles]

Boo-hoo. But the cav is now almost as light as I should have built it origionally. lmao

For those getting parts:
Just gotta spend tonight/tomorrow night stripping the bits off other parts ofr you (ie pump face plate & sump off block, TBB's off head) etc etc.

Mcfly - I've carefully wrapped up the block for you. Just gotta split gearbox off it to get clutch off.

No picture of the reaplacement track day car that now sits on my drive - I'll see if I can get a pic up. Can I justify putting it in this tread by saying Lee took it for a thrash with the comment of "goes alright, brakes are great". lmao

[sbd16vastra]

Woo, my dry sump kit is getting closer : )

i thought rick draper was getting the dry sump

[lee303]

ta for the beef lee.

not a problem brudda

No picture of the reaplacement track day car that now sits on my drive - I'll see if I can get a pic up. Can I justify putting it in this tread by saying Lee took it for a thrash with the comment of "goes alright, brakes are great". lmao

yes, apparently you canlmao

[neo1]

Lee what sort of price did your drive shafts cost in the end, all in mate, inner cv's with custom shafts and stuff as i might be getting the same gearbox for my corsa, but its coming with the output flanges buts thats all, i am using the astra 16v outer cv joints now on astley shafts, just trying to cost the job up.... cheers mate...

[lee303]

Lee what sort of price did your drive shafts cost in the end, all in mate, inner cv's with custom shafts and stuff as i might be getting the same gearbox for my corsa, but its coming with the output flanges buts thats all, i am using the astra 16v outer cv joints now on astley shafts, just trying to cost the job up.... cheers mate...

hi mate

right well mine came in at about £800 including cvs and boots, and i doubt i will ever be able to break one, got my shafts made by reco prop

righty, a busy fun packed evening tonight, peester popped in(nice to put a face to a name) with some hubs, struts and a gear linkage to have some work done, had an astra to do a rear hub on and then i got round to fitting this too

even found time to replace the custon ziptie motorsport bracket with a slightly better but still shonky metal bracket

yes it is just the one that gills had on it bent slightly lmao

[spanishfly]

Nice progress!

[spanishfly]

P.S.: Does that mean my weber one is ready for collection?

[lee303]

spooky that it mentions 30thlmao and yeah, the webber reg, um, er,,. i might have given that to gills in part exchange, possibly

[spanishfly]

spooky that it mentions 30thlmao and yeah, the webber reg, um, er,,. i might have given that to gills in part exchange, possibly

Fair enough, he seems to be game at Part Ex's atm lmao

[lee303]

totally forgot i'd promised it to you, oops! shame you cant make nurburg though mate, even brian and matt are probably gonna come!

[spanishfly]

totally forgot i'd promised it to you, oops! shame you cant make nurburg though mate, even brian and matt are probably gonna come!

That is a shame! They wanna buy some laps

[lee303]

oh and neo, be carefull whne you measure up for the shafts, best to have a cv bolted up to the flange and measure it up as it makes them quite a bit shorter than a stock shaft, you'll be needing af bolts to fit the flange holes too

[lee303]

That is a shame! They wanna buy some laps

think they are both going for the hirecar option that comes with laps included i'm afraid

[neo1]

cheers Lee thanks for that

[lee303]

no worries mate, nice bit of kit imo

[peester]

yay i met the man the [shonky] legend [/shonky]

[lee303]

lmaolmao

[lee303]

righty, did a few bits for peester(dave) on here tonight, as i have been drafted in to
help finish his 1800 nova project
he dropped some hubs and stuff off last week, so first job was to strip the hubs down

easy with air tools!(mig foot fetish club membership application supplied)

then had to drill them out to fit these

he's using uniballs too

then had to replace the bearings in his top mounts, they required shimming too to remove all the play

final job(for now) was to rose joint his gear linkage, it seems i do mine slightly differently to everyone else who gets the kit of parts dave supplied me, i just think its more adjustable and the rose joints are better loaded in this orientation, not that i think you would break
one in the opposite plane as its just a gear linkage, but there we go...


need some longer bolts for the joints but other than that its done, so should be up to his at some point to get the car done
in the mean time brian has begun his dry sump pan, making use of my old fittings, should be ace when done!



might look at the nova some time soon i guess lmao

[William]

nice shoes mate