Project Overtime

Yeah I'll take that damaged diff gear to a machinist and see what they can do with it. I'm surprised its an ST165 box, I doubt there are more than 50 in the country, much less spares for them.. you're probably right about its previous owner, it would explain how he knew so little about it. Thanks for the offer on the MR2 box, shipping would be frightening though. The wrecker 5 minutes down the road from me sells gearboxes for about $160, I'll just wait until they've got a couple of ST204's in stock and go pull the boxes from them, try and make one good one.

 

Thanks for the offer, but I'll try and source what I need locally. I might hit you up if all parts here turn out to be extinct though

 

That's a great link, thanks Oompa!

 

Not much to update, just some recent purchases;

Innovate Motorsport gauges. L-R: Oil pressure/temperature, water temperature/battery voltage, air-fuel ratio.



Speedo and tacho still to come, but these will all be housed within the factory instrument binnacle on a custom mounting panel.

Also, my long (L-O-N-G) awaited valve springs finally arrived. They're from GSC Power Division, who tell me "[FONT=&amp]they will set up at 74lb @ 1.354” and 200lbs at 11mm lift". I think that's good? [/FONT]Retainers are titanium. Also got some valve stem seals from them and, most importantly, a T-shirt and some stickers . No collets for the valves though, will have to source a set from.... somewhere...



That's all for now. One day I hope to actually put all of this stuff in the car