Further progress update - Slowy's rebuild

[stephen low]

Delivered the rebuilt roller into Marty's shed some time back along with a number of boxes including the new TKO600 and clutch.

To keep things very easy I bought a bunch of Dellow's bits to enable a direct fit between TKO and motor whilst achieving a hydraulic clutch and retaining the same starter. Both the fork lever and starter are in the standard locations to keep it all simple.






Marty bolted the whole shebang together and installed the motor and box into the chassis as seen above and fabricated a nifty looking rear gearbox mount.

Below he has also finished fabricating my twin roll bars and the third leg arrangements using the new seat belt tower again of his design.




One of the questions I was itching to know was where my new gear shift selector would end up in the tunnel. I deliberately ordered the box with the standard shifter rotated 180 degrees to move it about 3 - 4 inches forward.

The GForce tunnel has a long open section as you can see in the first pic with the T5 trying to come out at the back of this. Gives you an idea how much the modern boxes have grown over toploaders and the like.




But the TKO fits like this. Excuse the out of focus pic but you get the idea!




Basically the new shifter is at least 4 inches further forward.

This is excellent as the old shifter needed my arm to be just slightly back of a neutral location on the tunnel. Seems I'll have to get a new shift lever now.

There's still a long list to work through but it's happening.

Enjoy

[LoBelly]

Glad to see its coming together Stephen - its been a while

I imagine putting it all together the second time is much quicker

LoBelly

[stephen low]

Michael

Knowledge wise yes, practically probably not due to the new job and restricted time.

That's why it's at Marty's but even he has a heap of work on so it is moving forwards as fast as he can get the jobs done.

I didn't make the comment though that the body is at the shed too, with the painted engine bay plus fully prepared external covered in high fill. Once this is bolted back onto the chassis Greg can work his magic with some external colour.

Bit lucky there, as was Greg, because his place was in the line of fire, literally, last week in Lysterfield. All my swinging panels are in his shed at home and could have easily gone up in smoke along with his house.

Fortunately we are both relieved, for different reasons, of course!

Cheers

[stiffy]

Super Slowly,


Loooking good, all things cum to those that wait, a good friend said to me ( he owned a rub & tug establishment )

The car looks like its going in the right direction, slowy as all Cobra's do.

keep us posted,


STIFF

[stephen low]

Speaking of rub & tug, how's that establishment.......err.............shed of yours cuming along??