This car was delivered to MK this morning in this van. It has come from foreign shores, yes they're mad as geese in the netherlands
They took 2 full indy kits back with them too!

cheaper than a trailer

how come they are bringing u cars??

I could tell you Ben, but then I'd have to kill you

thats easy...cos the guys who give out license plates over here are a bunch of idiots
However seeing as they have an agreement to hand out licence plates to anything that is already road registered in the EU....we just take our cars to be SVA'd over in the UK ...and then get them registered in Holland.
A lot of hassle...but at least you can drive on the road.
oh by the way if you cant stuff it in a van you can always put it on your roof rack...

I think the question is not why?, but HOW??

Did that Russ Swift drive it in?

LOL

Charlie

Spoil sport. I bet you were a proper teachers pet at school. Killjoy!

locodude hows the jap replacement comming?????

Slowly but surely, work keeps getting in the way

you are using a zx9 right? What does the mk zx9 adaptor consist of sorry but too many people keep asking me how I intend to convert chain drive to the sierra prop and I don't really know the answer also do i need to shorten the sierra prop?
cheers ben

MK flange adaptor and prop flange and UJ as bought from MK. - click here
Flange adaptor £45
UJ and prop adaptor £55

Both quality bits of kit and fit like a glove.

The prop was only shortened by about 20mm and the new spline tig welded in.

Loads more pics on my site (mainly in march section) www.locostbuilders.co.uk/~mk9r

That looks remarkably like the front of a plastic pig propshaft. There's one in the shed somewhere. All I need now is a bike engine.

yours, Pete.

cool cheers how dod u shorten your prop did you send it off?

Cut it to approx length, put it in a lathe, turned the end square, pushed the adaptor into prop (very tight), then using the head stock on the lathe made sure it was true and tack welded it. Then sent it off to a colleague to get it tig welded.

Now before people go off on one saying about vibrations, strength etc, the weld and centralisation is as good if not better than the standard on

I agree with Austen here...I've shortened many prop shafts and never had any vibration problems...the key is square up the tube properly (yes the lathe helps) and clean up the end piece well (again, the lathe is good to machine out the old weld).....then time them correctly and weld neatly....job done.

As Austen says they do fit fairly tight and from memory the end peice goes into the tube about 2"....so yes of course they ARE important to be welded soundly...but it's not like the factory ones are X-rayed or anything (someone correct me if I'm wrong)........

Another tip............. a jubilee clip is usually more than enough to take out any slight vibration, just keep spinning it till the "screw bit" is in the rite place to act as a balance weight.

cheers guys we have a huge metal lathe at home that hasn't been used in ages so I'll ask my dad tonight but I will probably have to get it done by a company as i am not that experianced with such things
Cheers anyway
Ben