My 3B Coupé Project.

[DJ-ROY]

good luck with rebuilding it

i have to waited a year

untill last week.......:mischeif:

[4WheelDrifter]

Stu, you really have lost the plot! Be good to see it all up and running soon though, especially at the ring or combe.

Hey Andy. you're partly to blame for this. The car was in one piece until you wanted a radiator. I took that out, and the next thing I knew half the engine was missing.

Yeah. It would be lovely to get it running again soon. I'm missing it badly. I don't think it will make it to the Nürburgring this year. I certainly hope it will next year!

As for the plan. I've got all sorts of spare parts in the garage, store room and the house. You'll have to wait and see what gets fitted, as the plan keeps changing all the time.
I've got four engine blocks and three gearboxes here for a start.

[Rusty]

Stu, you really have lost the plot! Be good to see it all up and running soon though, especially at the ring or combe.

[Fat Audi 80]

cheers for the info mate. the whole seized bolts thing terrifies me. I like your high tech axle stands by the way. might get a set of those.

That's what I was thinking. Are they the Travis Perkins ones?

Good luck Stu, you are a braver man than me....

[Nj]

cheers for the info mate. the whole seized bolts thing terrifies me. I like your high tech axle stands by the way. might get a set of those.

[4WheelDrifter]

Its hard trying to find space for all the parts isn't it

You're not wrong there. Along with all the other spares I have, I can hardly move in my garage.

[4WheelDrifter]

haha. no **** sherlock. you've lost it big style. first lending people parts and then taking everything else apart just for the hell of it!

i'm in the process of stripping mine to do a reshell. any top tips for taking off the subframes and in particular the gearbox and engine? did you take them both out together on the front subframe?

cheers
Nj

I took the head off first, then slid the engine block out the front on a plank, took the exhaust off, dropped the rear diff and prop, disconnected everything from the gearbox apart from the prop and subframe, then dropped the front subframe down and pulled the whole transmission out from under the car. The propshaft bolts were seized, so I had to take it all out as a whole. I had hardly any elbow room under the car.

[Jon441cc]

Its hard trying to find space for all the parts isn't it

[Nj]

and the dashboard has come out too, so I can have a poke around under there. ........................
Maybe I should have titled the thread 4WheelDrifter's lost the plot.

haha. no **** sherlock. you've lost it big style. first lending people parts and then taking everything else apart just for the hell of it!

i'm in the process of stripping mine to do a reshell. any top tips for taking off the subframes and in particular the gearbox and engine? did you take them both out together on the front subframe?

cheers
Nj

[Al Wyn]

So whats the plan Stu?

[4WheelDrifter]

As many of you know my gearbox died a horrible death last winter. Since then the car has been sat on the driveway where the AA man kindly dumped it. There it sat for a couple of months while I was busy with other things.

Then a few people got to know that my car was a non runner, so I started taking a few bits and pieces off of the car to loan to people in need.

I decided seeing as the gearbox has to be swapped, I would take the chance to upgrade and refurbish a few other parts on the car. So I started to pull the old banger apart.

So far I've taken the engine out, along with anything else that was in the way in the engine bay, suspension and subframes off, gearbox out along with propshaft and the rear diff, and the dashboard has come out too, so I can have a poke around under there.

Here's the car in it's current state.




Under the bonnet.




Inside.



Maybe I should have titled the thread 4WheelDrifter's lost the plot.