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Back on-topic, here's the workshop soon after the bike was completed (though it's now very cramped, as it contains a part-built GT40!)

Hi Marcus Could we take a peek under the covers at some point? I am a massive Ducati fan - have owned them since my first 851, bought in 1992 (when they were quite the rarity). I replaced the 851 with an 888 I then bought a 916, which I collected in April 1996, and its running-in occurred...

Still plugging away...roughly test-fitted the current iteration of the gear linkage:- Either end of the rod is 18mm bright mild steel bar; middle section is 16mm hollow tube to try and get some weight out of the linkage, without sacrificing rigidity. They're a very snug fit; will be welded...

Hi Brian I did that; as you say, if you unscrew the hole saw 1/4 turn or so, the drive dogs engage and you can nip-up the grub screw. To be honest, the "second-wobbliest hole saw" was a Project Binky reference...see Cheers, Eddy

Wow..congratulations! What a stunning machine. Surely that's got to be the closest thing to stepping into a brand-new, 1968 GT40. You are very fortunate indeed. Please share photos of your car as and when you have time....it is a lovely thing.

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Hi Steve This stuff? It looks odd in the restoration photos...no discernible weave to the fabric.

The other side was a bit trickier - I wanted to use as many of the four threaded bosses on the gearbox case as I could, but no two were on the same plane. So I turned up some steel bosses And built the bracket out from there They're all at different heights, with the bottom-left one...

The correct engine mounts arrived and I swapped them over, which dropped the engine a tad over 30mm and it's about horizontal now. That means I can make up the gearbox mounts, using CAD (cardboard-aided-design, obvs). CAD template Transferred to steel Roughed-out The world's...

I have a roll pin on standby...!

Did some more work on my gearshift, now that I have a rough idea where the gearbox is going to be located. A while back, @peguero posted some nice CAD sketches of the Mk2-style shifter https://www.gt40s.com/threads/original-fav-gt-40-shift-knob-drawings.53501/post-541102 and there's also a...

Ladies and gentlemen....we have a winner! ZF mounts and UN-1 'box. Mick will sort it out next week, after a well-earned 3-day weekend.

I've been in the same situation recently...sometimes I go out to the garage, shuffle motorcycles, lawnmowers and boxes of parts around for an hour so I can get to the part of the car I want to work on...then run out of time, or end up back where I started. Sometimes the whole project feels like...

Hard to photograph, but... The engine mounting bolt is just under 100mm from the top of the engine mount. Is this 30mm too low?

Good question...hang on a minute... <runs off to garage....>

Still can't see what's wrong - here are my mounts:- The gearbox is a UN1-013 from a Renault 21 Turbo, so same casing and mounts as most UN1's...right?

Well, that's the weirdest thing. I was going to say "Junior Power Timer, 3-pin" but as you stated, they only have the three cut-outs, not four. Worth a call to your ECU supplier?

Yup... that's how I have them. Maybe it'll be a bit clearer once I have sorted gearbox mounts. Thanks for all the input.

Thanks again Shaun. I see in the first pic that your gearbox mounts don't locate on what I had assumed were the chassis mounts tabs about 100mm forward from the current position of your rubber bobbins.

7mm...how very continental! I took the 'box I bought from eBay to Chris Cole a couple of years ago, and he fitted a high 5th gear, 4-planet diff and supplied a flywheel, AP racing clutch & cover, overhauled the slave and provided these mounts. There's a new release bearing and a modified...