Fudgey

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ok, chip has told me that the cossy gearbox cradle thing wont fit the GL shell as it doesnt have the slider things?

so is there anyway i can use the type 9 cradle on the T5?

i dont mind drilling a hole straight though the floor and using bushes etc

Fudgey

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Anonymous

Yes i reckon you can modify it to fit the type 5 cradle mate, just wont give you the same sort of adjustment.

What year is your shell though, i believe from C reg onwards they may have changed, mine is only the way it is cause its pre-cossie (A reg in my case)

Fudgey

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mine is a B reg, 1984 on the log book.

so long as it can be done with an angle grinder and a mallet

Anonymous

you may find all spahs have it, or some other type of car thats easy to get hold of it from mate???

Id weld the sliders in if i were you!

Fudgey

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are they really necassary tho?

i mean, as i dont know much about the 3-doors, once its all bolted up is there much room for adjustment?

basically i think im gonna struggle to get the slider bits really, hence just fitting all the engine and running gear, and then where the cradle sit just drill through the floor and bolt it up

Anonymous

Just makes it easier to install the engine and box, and given that you will be fooking around moutning a different engine anyway, i would have thought that element of movement would be invaluable.

Plus if you dont i will take the piss out of you constantly, referring to you as a "nonslider dodgy replica owner", cause im a bufty with sliders and im getting it written down so it says so on my logbook and i will look down on you if you dont

Anonymous

Ah, just read your edit.

I guess if you wait till AFTER you mount the engine and box then its not an issue as like you say once its lined up thats that, so problem solved.

Fudgey

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yeah but yours is yellow

ok, where the fook can i get the slider bits from?

and whos gonna weld em on?

david

Every saff ive seen has the 'sliders' in the tunnel so what about chopping some out and welding them into your shell not that difficult if your decent with a welder or wont be expensive to get someone to do it either.

Fudgey

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well ive never done welding before but ill give it a go

so any 2wd saph shell with have then? non cos etc?

i dont really know what they are tbh

Anonymous

OR you could cut out the metal around it by a couple of inches and then no nails them on



Ah, it is every saph then, thought it might be, gold star for me then

Anonymous

If you ever bother to show at weston i will show you!

Fudgey

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if i had a fookin car that would get me to weston i would!!

but not in the next 4 weeks as im getting married and got a honey moon to go on!

Anonymous

Its any little excuse with you isnt it?

Its just not good enough Daniel!

Fudgey

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well i aint walking!

david

Near the bulkhead in the tunnel but dont know what will be there on your shell, nothing probably. If youve never welded before then i'd get someone to do it for you mate

And Chip big for you mate, well I couldnt find a gold star

Fudgey

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hey, i t cant be that hard to weld, ive seen it on TV

Doh

the change over year for the sliders was 84 so you might get lucky!

magnum engineering do a DIY cross member kit for the T5 into an early shell i believe, not sure what it consists off though? you might have to weld it together unless they designed it to bolt together

Fudgey

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cheers mate, well i had the gearbox out the other week, to change the clutch.

what do the slider things look like??

i recall the cradle only had 4 bolt holes to go into, i didnt notice anything that moved.

foreigneRS

4x4 is different, there's no slider in the right place for t5 x-member as that's where transfer box sits. so make sure you get the bit of floor from a 2wd shell.

Anonymous

Or just 4wd your 3door instead

Although not to much arse out fun then

Fudgey

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so is there no way i can use the type 9 gearbox cradle?

only way it will fit a T5 is to chop floor out and use a T5 cradle?

bugger

Anonymous

Injectors:

http://www.racetronix.com/17113738FM.html


CHECK THE IMPEDANCE IS OK FOR WHATEVER ECU YOU ARE USING!

Fudgey

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so will any saph have the slidy bits?

or is it cosbine only?

Anonymous

any non 4wd saph i believe mate.

EG 2.0 ghia

Fudgey

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cool cool, ill see whats about

Fudgey

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chip, you got a piccy of what bits i need to cut off?

Anonymous

Nope, but can get one sometime.

Doh

i would have thought the easiest job would be modify a 3 door T5 crossmember to fit your floorpan, the 3 door one is steel rather than alloy like the saph cross member...

Fudgey

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the x member on it at the mo is steel i think, but for a type 9.

is it just the rubber donut in a different place?

Doh

yeah the type 9 ones are steel too, problem is the cossie rubber mount is completely different, the type 9 box has only one fixing point dead center, but the T5 has 2 points either side of center

tiny

It would be alot easier to just make up a new crossmember, to fit your car
once you have the engine and box,in place. Mine has the sliders, but didnt
use them, the steel to make a new cradel cost about 8 quid, and i used
escort engine mounting bushes, about 3 quid each, and it only took a couple of houres to make, It took longer to drill it all out to lighten it