23rd February
Drive down to Oakhanger to take the gearbox, clutch and flywheel to Neville Powell’s workshop. Pretty, simple place with loads of elderly but clean and very serious equipment and like Neville. He’s got the engine on a hoist already and it looks pretty clean. There is also another Fury there – an old style live axle chassis with a Spider aero screen body. These have very different front wishbones, tub panelling etc but fundamentally they are the same. Quite pleased to see it also has an odd engine – a Peugeot M16 with Suzuki throttle bodies, and tons of space in body side where the door would be. Neville runs through the ECU solution he found which seems to work for that car. We covered the need for a return inlet on the tank I bought which he says he can braze in easily, and the fact that the MX5 engine / gearbox is very long and we’ll need to set it right forward. He’ll collect the chassis, fuel tank etc late next week. Later he texts to say the g’box, engine etc are already assembled!
Drive down to Oakhanger to take the gearbox, clutch and flywheel to Neville Powell’s workshop. Pretty, simple place with loads of elderly but clean and very serious equipment and like Neville. He’s got the engine on a hoist already and it looks pretty clean. There is also another Fury there – an old style live axle chassis with a Spider aero screen body. These have very different front wishbones, tub panelling etc but fundamentally they are the same. Quite pleased to see it also has an odd engine – a Peugeot M16 with Suzuki throttle bodies, and tons of space in body side where the door would be. Neville runs through the ECU solution he found which seems to work for that car. We covered the need for a return inlet on the tank I bought which he says he can braze in easily, and the fact that the MX5 engine / gearbox is very long and we’ll need to set it right forward. He’ll collect the chassis, fuel tank etc late next week. Later he texts to say the g’box, engine etc are already assembled!
Reading the MX5 book I find the clutch is hydraulic so if I go that route I’ll need a master cylinder etc. and will have to modify the pedal etc. According to book, uses brake fluid as well. However having studied the clutch fork I don’t see why I can’t rig up a cable operated system with a return spring that will be a lot easier.
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