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"BiTurbo228 - Dr Frankenstein of Spitfires" (biturbo228) 04/30/2014 at 19:24 • Filed to: Spit6

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Winched the engine off the stand, lowered it onto the chassis and hooked up the transmission to the back. It's starting to look like a car again, although just for a little while :)

This is to offer up the rear gearbox mount so I can find out how to attach it to the chassis. As I've got the saloon/TR6 gearbox it's a decent bit bigger than the little Spitfire/GT6 one, and the mounts are in a completely different location.

The plan was to drill some holes into the chassis/fab up a bracket that would connect to the TR6 engine mount I've bought, but unfortunately that makes the whole thing sit very high. That's bad for the UJs on the driveshaft as they'll be at a tighter angle, and bad for clearance to the body.

So, the new plan is to bolt the flexible couplings directly to the chassis in the location where the old Spitfire/GT6 engine mount went, and fab up a bracket that will bolt to the end of the gearbox as opposed to the end of the overdrive unit. You can see the rough placement in this pic, as well as what I presume is the engine mount for the saloon.

So first order of business was to chop off a little bit of the lip on the flexible mountings so they'd sit flush on the chassis.

Second order of business was to realise that I haven't got any metal sheet thick enough to fabricate the brackets needed and go down the pub :)

EL_ULY > BiTurbo228 - Dr Frankenstein of Spitfires 04/30/2014 at 19:28

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looking good. Were those mounts for that car?

EDIT: TR6 I thought i saw something else

lone_liberal > BiTurbo228 - Dr Frankenstein of Spitfires 04/30/2014 at 19:30

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They have sheet metal at your pub? ;)

BiTurbo228 - Dr Frankenstein of Spitfires > lone_liberal 04/30/2014 at 19:34

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I wish they did. Alas, they've only got things that make you forget about needing sheetmetal.

Ramblin Rover - The Vivisector of Solihull > BiTurbo228 - Dr Frankenstein of Spitfires 04/30/2014 at 19:57

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I thought you were aware the English Way when needing a bracket is to make something preposterously over-folded out of thin sheet and weld it together. 3 pieces minimum, and plan to look terrible and rust out within ten years.

BiTurbo228 - Dr Frankenstein of Spitfires > Ramblin Rover - The Vivisector of Solihull 05/01/2014 at 05:16

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I think it's our affinity with the Japanese. We can't help but throw a little origami into things :)

Cé hé sin > BiTurbo228 - Dr Frankenstein of Spitfires 05/06/2014 at 07:06

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Oh, a Laycock overdrive! Does it still work, given that they're famous for not so doing?

BiTurbo228 - Dr Frankenstein of Spitfires > Cé hé sin 05/06/2014 at 08:05

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I haven't checked actually :S I should probably connect it up to a battery and see if it engages.

Fingers crossed it's alright. It's the later J-Type so it should be a little more rugged than the early A-Type :)