Well i have fixed the gear box ;)

[grinder]

Thats right ladies and gentlemen

I now have a working gearbox .... only thing is .. its in this little baby

Picked her up today

The long timers on here will remeber it as Elford_Tims old car , which was bought by richrx and now by me

Its a 1989 UK Turbo II
Done about 117K ( rebuilt/recon engine at 91K )
Koyo Rad
HKS Guages ( oil temp - doesnt work though ) / oil pressure / water temp )
Koni shocks all round ( stock springs )
Fully de-catted
Cusco front brace
10mm Red Magnacor leads

It runs like a dream ( a little on the quite side - but i can sort that out )

Was a new roof a few years back - but then little scummy person decided they wanted in - and slashed the roof

But Richard sorted that with some fancy tape

Its come with a full car cover ( will nosey at that tomorrow ) and the tannaue cover ( i seem to have a collection of these now )

Rich has done the mod to keep the lights down with the side lights on and hes put some led lights where the front fogs should be

Ran superb on the way back , and pulls fine on boost etc..

The main thing in all this , it has a working gearbox .. its superb ( cant find the gears in it yet ... but time will sort that )

And yes .. here are the pics

Stu

[Brett]

All things considered... this was deffo the easiest option :Giggle

[Alfred]

Car cover??? :2eek
Hope there was no surcharge.

[grinder]

Brett - yeah i thought that aswell pal

Alfred - nah it was thrown in with the deal

[TiddlesRX7]

Nice mate. Glad you\'ve got a working Rex again.

So what you doing with the other one then?

Ade

[B.Martin]

Really pleased for you man. What\'s your plans now then? Swap all the good bits over to this new one? Is it manual or auto?

[grinder]

Ade - no idea what to do with the other one yet ! LOL

B.Martin - its a manual car - so thats nice .. need to swap over some shiney bits yet onto it

Clutch seems to be right at the bottom , but it pulls OK etc.. - you just have to put the clutch all the way to the floor before changing gear , will take some getting used to i think .. no speedy changes as yet !

[Prof]

We\'re going to have to start calling you \'2 cabs\' - it\'s an exclusive club, but that\'s 2 of us in it now :cheers
 
Can\'t really see the roof repair from those photos - but the top bit looks shiney in one of them?

[marcusd666]

Nice one Stu glad you are back on the road again looks great.

[grinder]

in the last pic - you can see if on the left hand side of the rear screen

It superb to be back in a rx though

[L18M]

great news!
you going to swap boxes and then sell one? or break the white one?

i think giv it about 2 mths and i\'ll need another engine lol

[m1tch]

I do like how Grinder\'s simple solution is to buy a complete extra car lol its missing the front splitter as all turbo IIs seem to lol but the big question is.....does it still have its battery box lid? :rollin

[grinder]

they are both too good to break to be honest - and i know for a fact that rich\'s better half would drive to my house and kill me

and its a great solution - cant fix it just buy another

[m1tch]

Are you going to ironically convert 1 to a manual box then and sell it? :rollin

[grinder]

nah , im just gonna use the white one for a while - whilst looking for a auto box for the other