A new start and a true friendship

13th August 2008
"When things get bad and you wonder what on earth you are doing . Sometimes a saint appears and gives you a differant solution....!"

With my crankcase cracked and my engine re-build put on hold. I was lucky enough to have a good friend step out and offer me a tempory solution. My friend John knowing my dilema offered me one of his engines to put in my car until I had researched and purchased the parts I needed to build a new engine that I had propossed to do. This was a gladly accepted gift as I could test out the disk conversion and IRS conversion that I had been working on for the past few months. Obviously without this engine It would be some time before I could have the new engine built up and runnning in the car.

I needed to use the clutch and cover plate from my old engine along with my distributor, HT leads and rocker arms. The engine was fitted into my buggy in an afternoon.

With the engine fitted I new I would have to redesign the number plate fixing. I had previously wanted this to look good and to be made out of stainless steel , but as the buggy previously had a rear cage that still needed to be extended I felt it was a good time to redesign and make the mount i really wanted. The number plate body was made out of 5mm stainless. The holes where cut to help reduce the weight of the piece I made a mount that would take my existing stainless steel tube number plate lamp. The finished result looked very good and I was happy that I could still fabricate it after the problems I had had with the previous engine.

I had also been lucky enough to find a new crankcase on vzi and although it was a little expensive I was awaiting some photos.