Type 9 - Job Done

Seems like I have been working on this conversion for ages, well its finally fitted and up and running.

Only been for a quick run as its been raining quite heavily today, hopefully get out over the weekend, all seems to work ok.

The following picture shows how much of the original selector mechanism had to be cut away to fit in my shortened remote.

I had to make a new bush to support the selector shaft as the original is completely removed when shortening the remote housing.

The selector rod had to be cut down to match the housing.

The completed box with the adapter plate and a quickshift conversion that came with one of the scrap boxes I bought of ebay.

Chassis welded and treated to some fresh paint, new mounting plate bolts to the underside of the chassis rails.

Gearbox in place, fairly straightforward to fit, uses the 1850 Dolomite clutch that I already used.

Had to make a small mod to the gearbox tunnel, basically moved the top half of the tunnel 25mm backwards, you can just see where it was glued.

All fitted, I now need to find a suitable gear knob and decide what length to make the gearstick.

Currently having some adapter plates machined, if your interested please get in touch. They are currently working out at £100 plus P & P. These have been designed primarily to fit the GT6 / Vittesse so not sure of there suitability for the 4 cylinder set up. They could probably be adapted to fit, the main difference I am aware of is the clutch mounting point.