Wednesday, October 7, 2009

Now these are Tyres






The Tyres have finally been ordered and arrived as you can see they are monsters. now I can order the rims from the UK We have decided on a set of Image wheels that are replicas of the original BRM wheels that replaced the spoke wheels used by ford.
The rears will be 12" wide and the fronts 8" they are 3 piece wheels and can be ordered up to 15" wide and used extensively by a lot of the racing fraternity especially in the UK and Europe.
The engine transmission unit is well under way and should be finally assembled in in the next week. The exhaust headers came back from the ceramic coater's this afternoon an amazing job and product (pic's as soon as assembled)it is a ceramic aluminium coating that is baked on both the inside and the outside of the tubing then tumbled in a vibrating tumbling bath of ceramic beads and fine abrasive paste, The result looks like chrome and is very heat resistant and durable. reducing engine compartment temperatures and looks great and unlike chrome it does not turn blue and can be re/polished. The Ford XR8 Windsor engine to Porsche G50/50 trans axle mount plate and flywheel have been acquired from DBR and are bountifully machined and fit perfectly using a Porsche 911 Turbo clutch an awesome looking power plant.

1 comment:

  1. Wow. The headers came up beautifully. you should give that guy a plug!

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