'Ello all
Picture of a ZF-Q a guy who lives local to me has installed in a customers car. Looks a beautiful piece of kit. Since this is my route I also spoke to a couple of early adopters including one who had previosly used a ZF - all very positive with the sweetness of the change being a major plus.
Installed gear selector and routed cables over the weekend. Did'nt like the idea of leaving the cables naked or riveting a cover to the mono so came up with this. Polished stainless steel tubes (1.5" top cable 1.25" bottom cable) are an interference fit if you wrap self adhesive damlifier around the rearward projecting bosses on the selector box. At the other end carefully measured and cut two interference fit eliptical holes to run the ss tubes through the rear firewall. Whole assembly is rock solid and does the job. Not exactly a period look but it looks really neat IMHO.
Sandy, the CNC reservoirs arrived today and I have figured a way of mounting the level sensors (required for SVA in the UK) into the CNC ally caps. They really do look so much better than the placky ones, thanks.
Chris Melia came round for a "final fit" session on the LS7 to ZF-Q bellhousing. Only issue now outstanding is for me to change the pilot bearing to one with a 17mm bore. The OD of the LS7 pilot is 43.31mm (1.705") to give a tight interference fit and appears to be a roller bearing. This looks like a special GM size as early searches have not yielded an off the shelf equivalent with a 17mm bore.
My options look like (1) sleeving down the crankshaft hole size and fitting a standard bearing or (2, Fran came up with this one) making a plain bearing out of oil light brass. I would be keen to know if anyone out their has ideas/opinions on the best route.
Regards to all
John