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Great build for sure, will look the nuts and that gearbox will sound ace.

Looks awesome!!!

Mean bro. Looks very time consuming though aye!

Thanks for all your positive comments guy's, it is hard work and slow going, but then like the rest (most) of you, I am not a trained mechanic (far from it!) and I only get weekends to work on the car. But I am pleased with ho it is going.

Ho ? what ho ?, how !

Anyway, a bit more progress.

I need to trial fit the engine and gearbox to fabricate new gearbox mounts, the T9 box mount is a little further back than the RX7 box, so I will no doubt have to fabricate new mounts.

But first I need to change the clutch plates. The Ford gearbox has a different size of input shaft and the ford splines wont mate with the RX7 clutch plates. So I have to change the clutch plates to a 7"1/4 disc with ford splines.

These are the new discs



And the twinplate cover :



Mazda discs insitu:

Ok, so now all I need to do is use an old Ford input shaft (the best way, rather than a universal tool) to make sure that the discs are all aligned for when I fit the gearbox.



Once that's all tightened up, then on with the gearbox.



Ready for test fit.

April 12 .....May 28th update required

Time for an update methinks, though I have been waiting for a milestone to make it worthwhile, but I have made some good progress, so here goes. I had a big parcel turn up from Mr Foley.

The box contained the two rear spoilers which Fintan had had made from a mould from his own FB Rally Car. Such a gent and I am so grateful to him.



Once I had fiddled around a bit with the mounting bolts I finally got the spoiler on the car:





Happy with that I took the spoiler off for painting and fitting finally later. The two small original spoiler fitting holes will get filled and painted.

That's proper old-skool rally spec right there Very cool!