Well....here goes all or nuthin.

[Larry L.]

They do fit I think - I am pretty sure there is a SPF with a mod motor Ford in it on this forum or passing through my email some time ago. Not sure on the transaxle though.

A Texas speed shop (Dallas Performance) built a MKIII with a nasty sounding 1,200 h.p., TT SBF hooked to a Ricardo few years back. 'Needed mods to mount the Ricardo as I recall.
Owner of the car totaled it on his first(?) outing...'had something to do with the extra rear weight bias of the Ricardo + speed causing a handling problem. 'Car launched off the road backwards and that was that.
It sure was impressive looking / sounding.
'Stunning in fact.

 

[Neil]

A Texas speed shop (Dallas Performance) built a MKIII with a nasty sounding 1,200 h.p., TT SBF hooked to a Ricardo few years back. 'Needed mods to mount the Ricardo as I recall.
Owner of the car totaled it on his first(?) outing...'had something to do with the extra rear weight bias of the Ricardo + speed causing a handling problem. 'Car launched off the road backwards and that was that.
It sure was impressive looking / sounding.
'Stunning in fact.

"Owner of the car totaled it on his first(?) outing...'had something to do with the extra rear weight bias of the Ricardo + speed causing a handling problem."

I don't suppose it could have had anything to do with stupidity, could it?

 

[Larry L.]

"Owner of the car totaled it on his first(?) outing...'had something to do with the extra rear weight bias of the Ricardo + speed causing a handling problem."

I don't suppose it could have had anything to do with stupidity, could it?

No comment... ;-)

 

[Larry L.]

A Texas speed shop (Dallas Performance) built a MKIII with a nasty sounding 1,200 h.p., TT SBF hooked to a Ricardo few years back.

Obviously the car was a MK II.
'Have no clue what possessed me to type MK III.
SMH

 

[Pete]

Since I'll end up building my own tanks I scanned the tank body panels. The net draped over the panel has targets for the laser scanner. You can also see them on the suspension parts.

 

[Ryan L]

That net is a great idea.

 

[Ryan L]

Where do you get the net?

 

[Pete]

Hello Ryan, I bought this net from a German company Called Aesub. It was around 600 bucks. It does speed up the process but depending on the scan there
is a little more cleanup because of the net grid. Kind of a trade off.

 

[Pete]

These pictures show first the left side sill area where the tank resides. I ended up scanning on the car to account for any springback of the panel. In the end there wasn't much. Then I scanned the chassis. Put them together in a model. Determine by cross section what space there was and finally designed the basic tank. I was given dimensions that were close but it would have been a disaster had I built the tanks and found out the panel wouldn't fit over them.

 

[Douglas]

Hello Pete,

I'm glad I came across this thread. I am in the process myself of starting the GT40 build using a 03 Cobra motor mated to an Audi 01e, I am changing out the cast block for an aluminum one to lose 70lbs and using a building the chassis myself ground up, so hopefully that aids in any/all modifications for fitment can be done on the go rather than after parts are already in place. I really like how yours has come along. I also after looking at other people's builds planned on using the ICEengine header blocks, from you using the 1-7/8's do you believe that 2" would even fit? I am considering that size to try and match the heads exhaust port size since they are 1.9xxx inches (oblong...)

Douglas