Lashout_UK said:
Volospian, I'd find a mint (and I mean mint, not "Yea mate, it's mint innit" mint car) Car and just destroy the engine and box, replace
Saves any hassle with paint etc, seen some lovely ones around. Might just make it a bit more bearable to do.
Sounds like you got it sorted though. Gonna rule!
Yeah, but then I'd have to take the body off anyway to get to the chassis to do the IRS change. There's quite a bit of welding to be done for the conversion and it would probably be best to do it with the body off, plus it gives you a chance to fully inspect the chassis for rust and so on (I'm going to use an SE6b or late SE6a as these have a galvanised chassis, so rust shouldn't be an issue, but you never know!)
I'm also intending to do some work on the body as well. The tunnel needs widening to fit the 'box so I may as well get some other bits done at the same time. I think the scim has a "false" grille on the front, as the spare tyre is mounted in front of the engine. I'm going to remove the spare (and add a tin of tyreweld stuff
) and rework the grille so that it actually does something. I saw one guy who had changed the rear lights too, and that was quite interesting. I
may do something similar (not lexus stylee though
)
This is a relatively long term project though as I'm still finishing the GT and I aint got room for any more cars (and the wife would go nuts) so the plan is to probably sell the GT at the start of next summer (I want at least one summer use out of it with the retrim, and selling in the winter would devalue it) and buy a scim then. I'd also use some of the GT money to buy a cheapo runaround until the scim is finished. I just haven't got the space and resources to do this at the moment and anyway, I've got to find the back end of a Jag S-Type (Original, not the modern one) for the IRS axle. It does give me a chance to get some items gathered together ready to go in though.
Having said all that, I'm pretty certain this is a go-er as far as projects go. It just makes a lot of sense to me, as I said it ticks all my boxes.
The other option is to swap the GT for a scim if anyone's interested (Practicle Classics have a swap section). I should be able to get an A1 scim for the value of the GT.
