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[rydning]

I`m almost done with the 6 sp kit into my spare un1 box.And gona put it in my car.

I also gona rebuild the hole shift mecanim because of the sloppy feeling.

Any with pics of the shift mecanism at rear of the gearbox from a V8 newer than 1998?
I belive they came up with a better solution in that time.

[mike_sekinger]

There are some pretty good images on the ´V8 Build Record´that LEW put together:

Oblique view RHS

Overhead view

Rear view

Hope these help.

I`m almost done with the 6 sp kit into my spare un1 box.And gona put it in my car.

I also gona rebuild the hole shift mecanim because of the sloppy feeling.

Any with pics of the shift mecanism at rear of the gearbox from a V8 newer than 1998?
I belive they came up with a better solution in that time.

[cweeden]

Hi Rydning,

Here is the gear lever end of things which might help.



[Edit] Hmm, I can't seem to stop this image from looking black, however there is a link near the top which works if you can find it.

Espritism are also threatening to develop an improved linkage kit for post 98 models towards the end of this year so it might be worth checking with them for an update. Here's the link to what they have already I am interested to see what they produce too.

http://www.espritism...ism8rev_010.htm

BTW are you based in Stavanger Norway? I just have a hunch you might be, I do some work for Statoil occasionally so maybe we could have a beer sometime if you are?

I have a long gearbox saga too which I will report fully soon. Interestingly I have a spare box I bought from Mike Sekinger (hi Mike) with the Quaife ATB installed. I had this modified with the Derek Bell upgrade by Jack Knights before they went bust. Unfortunately they must have known they were going bust as they paid no attention to getting anything right. Derek Bell has been an absolute saint and worked extremely hard to repair the mistakes they made in manufacturing. I hope to have it on the road in a few weeks to test and I hope it works properly now.

Either way I cannot thank Derek enough for his time and comitment to helping me resurrect what could have been a very expensive dead box, he is a top bloke.

cheers

-Chris

Edited by cweeden, 25 July 2007 - 09:36 AM.

[rydning]

There are some pretty good images on the ´V8 Build Record´that LEW put together:

Hope these help.

Thank this helped a lot.
I`m about to buy a kit from http://www.brookecars.co.uk/
But this will not fit in the rear so this V8 parts in the rear will be better and save me some work.

Hi Rydning,

Here is the gear lever end of things which might help.



[Edit] Hmm, I can't seem to stop this image from looking black, however there is a link near the top which works if you can find it.

Espritism are also threatening to develop an improved linkage kit for post 98 models towards the end of this year so it might be worth checking with them for an update. Here's the link to what they have already I am interested to see what they produce too.

http://www.espritism...ism8rev_010.htm

BTW are you based in Stavanger Norway? I just have a hunch you might be, I do some work for Statoil occasionally so maybe we could have a beer sometime if you are?

I have a long gearbox saga too which I will report fully soon. Interestingly I have a spare box I bought from Mike Sekinger (hi Mike) with the Quaife ATB installed. I had this modified with the Derek Bell upgrade by Jack Knights before they went bust. Unfortunately they must have known they were going bust as they paid no attention to getting anything right. Derek Bell has been an absolute saint and worked extremely hard to repair the mistakes they made in manufacturing. I hope to have it on the road in a few weeks to test and I hope it works properly now.

Either way I cannot thank Derek enough for his time and comitment to helping me resurrect what could have been a very expensive dead box, he is a top bloke.

cheers

-Chris

Hello Chris

I live in the northen part of Norway.To bad that we both live in very long countries.
Its so long distance between every Esprit entusiasts in this countries so we never meet in persons.

Realy good that DB is fixing the mistakes and you get going.Pretty sure you will be fine know
But bad you had to be the testpilot for this companys.

Edited by rydning, 25 July 2007 - 07:16 PM.

[rydning]

Any with pics of the spreadsheet of this parts in the rear?

Is the partlist for the V8 on the net somewhere?

[Simon350S]

LEW has the V8 parts list on their site but you need to be a member to view them.

Simon