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Took the old dash apart and removed the full complement of Stewart Warner gauges....oil press, oil temp, water temp, fuel press, volt meter and of all things, a VDO clock - which btw, still works!

The dash also had 5 toggle switches and 6 fuse holders in a neat row on the right side - surprise! - none of them were wired up to anything! :biggrin5:

The only things I need to do yet are remove the old exhaust system that's all welded together and the remote shifter, then it's ready to head to Tulsa town.....

 

The plan now is to move the 67 S down to Tulsa on Thursday, and assess the other car for needed repairs and modifications, but leave it in Tulsa till I have the donor car here and the engine and other parts removed.

Once I have the donor car stripped I'll go back to Tulsa and bring the new project car up to my shop and begin the install....

Still haven't found a donor car, there are a couple of 3 cyl Focus, but no 3 cyl Fiestas right now.....

 

yeahhhhhhhh...........and it was some kind of nasty, it's now at the land fill along with 2" of underpadding.......that also stunk to high heaven! I think it weighed about 50 - 60lbs all together!

 

Thanks for those, I've only been looking on Copart......that second site was particularly useful as it shows the bids on the cars - they're going for a lot more $$$$$ than I ever expected!

All the 3 cyl cars on the first site were sticks, I want an Auto - tho I may have to change that if I can't find one, and those on the second site were all 4cyl, tho there were some local KCK cars on that one.

 

Today I delivered the 67 Cooper S down to the body restoration shop, tho it will be months before he can even touch it as he has so much work already in the shop and booked ahead.



Another A series came in for a rebuild too......this is an early 1100 - note the road draft tube coming off the tappet cover?



I have at least two more booked in before the end of the year, one is a Sprite motor tho......

 

Today I went down to Home Depot and bought a sheet of 3/4" melamine coated press board to use on my lift as an adjustable height work platform....I routed out some holes on the bottom to accept the stop lugs welded on top of the lift arms, that will hold the board in place as I slide things around on it.

It's so much easier on my back being able to raise and lower the work surface as needed.....

 

Thanks!

It also gives me a clean large area to lay out parts as I do the assembly. We all have to do with what we have......

 

Right now I'm rebuilding a few Sprite transmissions for a guy, once done with those it's back to the Mini stuff....still haven't found an auto trans Ecoboost to buy, still looking. Seems like there were a bunch in the winter time, this may have to wait a few more months.

I bought a roll of butcher paper to use on the lift table, keeps things cleaner and easier to find the odd bit I've dropped.

 

I spent some time yesterday at our local Ford training center talking to an engineer......

Running into serious roadblocks with using the Ecoboost, just as some on here predicted. Turns out the ECU polls 8 different functions on three separate can-busses - not the least of which is the anti-theft system. Without those it will not run.....

It looks like the only way to do this reasonably is with an aftermarket ECU, but no one makes one that works with an automatic, and the stick shift ones start at about $2K!

Gonna hafta give this some more thought.

 

Why, yes it is! 2004 2.7TT Tiptronic with 75K on it, supposed to be the worst car Audi ever built, and we've had absolutely no problems with it!