Phoenix fettling

[dopdog]

yeah! about time

[jeffw]

Rings have arrived. My Plays Kool / Geartronics system is shipping next week. So the whole thing should be back together in 2-3 weeks.

[jeffw]

Engine back together but this weeks hold up is flywheel bolts. The ARP bolt heads are too wide for the new flywheel and don't sit down correctly....new bolts from Burtons took 4 days for a next day service, couldn't make it up. Now we don't have 12.9 M8x50 bolts for the clutch

Just spent £99+VAT on 1 litre of oil for the Supercharger...

Sigh....

[ozePhoenix]

Borrowed from another kiwi Clubman driver...

Cheap and reliable won't be fast
cheap and fast won't be reliable
Reliable and fast won't be cheap

[jeffw]

It is a shame that the people doing this didn't think further ahead, we could have cut a far few weeks out of the process by ordering what we needed up front rather than doing a sequential job.

[jeffw]

Engine is back together and has, at last, been mated to the gearbox. Dick/Jay and the guys are fitting the pneumatic paddle system at the same time. Next step is to sort out the pedal position and move forward from there...

[jeffw]

So the car isn't going to be ready for Hethel next weekend.

[peter030371]

These things always seem to take longer than expected and my experience of engine builders is 'it will be done when its done sir'.....how they ever run a business like that I don't know. Hang on a minute, all the ones I have used in the past have now ceased trading, I wonder why

[jeffw]

It is something linked with the motor trade that they don't seem to think ahead at all. I'd get shot if I specced and run a project like some of these guys do.

[jeffw]

Going to have to compete in the MX5 rounds cones instead