Got my act together finally.
CraigJ - 3/2/09 at 06:29 PM
I started building my Onyx Mongoose in early 2007 but drew to a holt in early 2008. Mid way through the year me and my fiancee bought our first house
(fuckin skint now lol). we sold our cars to pay the deposit and i sold the engine kit from the mongoose to pay the solicitor. I then picked up a cheap
K-series that i promptly sold lol.
I then got a little depressed knowing id not be able to get a decent engine for ages because money was so tight so i put the mongoose up for sale. One
evening last week i had a guy come and view it and another ring about it to view it the next night.
After the guy had gone home i went on ebay and had a look at engines (god knows why) and came across a zx10 lol sat a £32 with an hour to go, had a
quick word with the other half and got a bid in. an hour later i was £82.77 lighter and had a big smile on my face. i picked up the engine on saturday
then cracked on with cleaning out my garage. To put it into prospective you couldn't even see the floor and had to climb over everything to get
any where now with 3 old units out the way and 2 days worth of tidying its now a place i can get some work done.
All in all I'm in a very good mood now lol.
Cam fone pics sorry need batts for camera.
Engine with casings off to check it over
The mongoose as it is
zilspeed - 3/2/09 at 06:31 PM
Well I'm glad the engine went to one of 'us'
That alfaZIL bloke who bid on it is right dodgy.... 
I only wanted it as a spare.
Glad you're back on track with the build.
CraigJ - 3/2/09 at 06:41 PM
quote:
Originally posted by zilspeed
Well I'm glad the engine went to one of 'us'
That alfaZIL bloke who bid on it is right dodgy....
I only wanted it as a spare.
Glad you're back on track with the build.
was this the one fella?
http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=290291193368&ru=http%3A%2F%2Fsearch.ebay.co.uk%3A80%2Fsearch%2Fsearch.dll%3Ffrom%3DR40%26
_trksid%3Dm37%26satitle%3D290291193368%2509%26category0%3D%26fvi%3D1
just asking as there was another ending a day or 2 later that was at a similar price.
[Edited on 3/2/09 by CraigJ]
CraigJ - 3/2/09 at 06:42 PM
how does the sylva go with ta zx10 in it?
chrisg - 3/2/09 at 06:45 PM
Well done mate, it would have been a shame to get rid of it when you've put so much work in.
Chuffed for you
Cheers
Chris 
CraigJ - 3/2/09 at 06:49 PM
Cheers chris.
By the way did you make any use of the chain diff? im currently building an LSD version from a rover pg1 gearbox.
Guinness - 3/2/09 at 07:50 PM
quote:
Originally posted by CraigJ
how does the sylva go with ta zx10 in it?
It's no good asking Zil how the car goes! It doesn't (yet!)
Mike
chrisg - 3/2/09 at 07:58 PM
quote:
Originally posted by CraigJ
Cheers chris.
By the way did you make any use of the chain diff? im currently building an LSD version from a rover pg1 gearbox.
Yup, it's in the single seater, I'll nip round one day and have a look at the new diff when it's finished.
Cheers
Chris
Meeerrrk - 3/2/09 at 10:02 PM
fairplay to you, best of luck
zilspeed - 3/2/09 at 10:09 PM
quote:
Originally posted by Guinness
quote:
Originally posted by CraigJ
how does the sylva go with ta zx10 in it?
It's no good asking Zil how the car goes! It doesn't (yet!)
Mike
It will.
It will.
As if the angle grinder incident wasn't enough, I now have a new ailment holding me back. Equally self inflicted as it turns out.
Since I lost a bit of weight, my kness have a bit less 'padding' on them. This has pinched the peroneal nerve on my left leg leading to
numbness on my left foot. I can't lift my left foot and my big toe won't lift at all.
The Doc says it should sort itself, but right now it's a bugger.
I don't want sympathy mind..... 