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Mate you forgot the selector system on the first trans was an absolute joke, and even you stated you weren't happy with it, but you sent it over anyway, and unfortunately i didnt take a picture of it, there was also the missing selector lock out to stop it selecting two gears at once, and...

{Hello guys, been quite a while since I last posted on this and we all know that there has been some problems with the trans that is in Aussie. I don't see them as failures as much as teething problems, } Leon may i suggest you let everybody no what these "teething" problems were, with both the...

Jobs done 1 Sadev 6 speed sequential trans all fitted, and rear uprights rebuilt, ready to rock and roll. bring it on. I had to lift the back of the engine 12 mm so trans bellhousing would clear the cross member, which is why i now have 5 1/2 deg angle on the half shafts. but i dont think it...

This one has a larger than normal CW/P and is rated at 650ft lbs, Pescarolo run the same box behind an LS3 in their LMP driver school prototypes. john

Hi Rod, its a Sadev SL 90-23, 6 speed sequential. cheers john

Back to the Macca, and i finally got the gear shift sorted took 3 goes but i got there in the end, then it was plumb up the oil cooler and trans pump etc, and finally this morning modify a new top cross member that would 1/ clear the gearbox, and 2/ also clear the exhaust system, so a bit of...

If thats an LS block i think youll find the bell housing to block bolts are 10 x 1.25, and no i wouldnt use stainless either, i use plated grade 8 cap screws in a very similar housing.

Hi mate, yep shes a scratch build, i drew the first chalk line on the floor middle of October 2017. and drove it out of the shed under its own power jan this year so approx 14 months, and the best part of 4 months was repairing the miserable excuse for a body i managed to get hold of, it was a...

Keith sorry to hear your in hospital ole mate, hope you get well soon, I know ive been a bit slack in posting but since the maca left me i immediately got busy and built myself a Honda K20 type R powered Lotus 23 , then for a x mass present to myself i get two nasty tumours on my right lung...

Update time on the McLaren, after what seemed like an eternity the new trans arrived, complete with a new beaut bell housing,, so first up was to make sure the bell housing clears everything, not quite, small mod required to cross member under flywheel, so trim a tad of the diagonal and bingo...

Hi Russ and a very merry X Mass to you and Carol as well, and i hope you manage another year, car is looking great, did you get that popping sorted out, and was i close, i know from experience on the brabham and the Maca they are finicky bloody things so i bought a good balancer which made life...

Hi Keith, there is a couple of very short vids of the beast running but unfortunatey its never lasted long enough for a decent vid, we have a new trans on the way which will make the car reliable, the only other problem we have to attend to are the rear uprights which desperately need a redesign...

Hi Russ sounds like there are a few starting to break down the resistance should be much the same if you can get hold of a workshop manual itll tell you what range is ok. here ya go, http://www.topgunignition.com.au/lead-resistance/ cheers John

I have 4 of RCR Lola pin drive centers but no shells if that helps these are CNC machined from a Billet, not caste.

Looking good Russ, Question, what tube did you use for the roll bar set up? cheers John

could be a blocked TX valve Chris.

i have one i made myself the handle is about 6 ft i suppose or there abouts, and it easily lifted the back of the McLaren and i'm only 180lbs and nigh on 70 so if i can manage you young bucks will have no trouble.

this should put a few minds at rest, and stir up a few others. https://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2018/10/the_hidden_agenda_behind_climate_change.html#ixzz5TLUykknq

Chris here are some drawings to make your own quicklift jack, its great inso much as you can get it quite away under to pick up on the floor pan front and rear. cheers John

And the rediculas part of all of this bull dust, its been proven scientifically beyond any shadow of doubt that the climate is actually getting cooler not warmer, so you will probably have noticed the change of heading in all the rhetoric from "globing Warming" to now its Climate Change" funny that.