Its about damn time. This is an underserved market, and the antics we have to go through with donors, ECU hacking, emulating stuff, controllers etc are like 10x the ICE investments right now

Or, if you’re really serious, drill all of the way through on an offset and use a hardened bolt and then you’ve got a cotter pin... although I admit that would cost 50% more

“...along with a sequential gearbox case, though the ... gearset, and halfshafts were either sold off or returned”

Whoa. Is this critical frame component hand welded? Thats the only possible explanation I can fathom for why you could have an unpenetrated weld in this day and age...

Tremec to the rescue!!

Yeah, but then you’ve bought the rental car version. They need to do something with those... but honestly they dont feel like any kind of bargain above like half of MSRP

Yeah, but then you’ve bought the rental car version. They need to do something with those... but honestly they dont feel like any kind of bargain above like half of MSRP

Well that would be great... right up until T2 that is

That’s new money. The rest of us know better than to be identified as a full size pickup owner

Good reporting. “Powered by Pennzoil”... sounds like oil control issues? Also can I say... what is with that muffler shop header design? Yes I understand its a turbo, but there’s free power there...

Wow this Miata / Fiat 124 platform is popping up everywhere!

Aren’t there enough people in the community with a technical background you can ask about things like this? Synchronizers aside (which are, in fact part of a transmission albeit technically a convenience feature) this may be true of your ford focus transmission, but a handful of incomplete shifts of a T56 under power c…

...and a Ryan Falconer type V12 design could be stuffed in there to keep the interest of the nostalgia buffs. Kick off an interesting crate engine business... yeah, never mind, this whole thing is getting scrapped for sure

^ This

On first seeing the pictures of this car I didn’t think much beyond it looks hidious and poorly built. Judging purely the bodywork here, before you jump down my throat, from the back that thing is tragic.

He was donning his welding Crocs tho

No, you get a pass for this on the MOT. Remember this is the UK we are talking about here

The wisdom of the rest of this has been amply discussed, but... I dont understand the positioning of the gas can for this activity

What specifically was shot? Was it a direct injection design?

^ This. Its generally only the reverse that is a problem where engine internals are concerned. Maybe catalyst, and some combustion chamber carbonization but that is different from a top end overhaul