Yes, what a community!
This gesture has brought more than just an engine to a car but revitalised the whole project and those involved in it with gusto.
It is so hard to hold onto dreams when the ritual of day to day life so often gets in the way. As Dr G says so much has happened over the duration of this project but something I am proud of our team in particular is never having given up and always looked for a way forward. If there is a lesson for others in our project I think it it could be that "fate rewards those that commit" and commit we have.
So if you have a project there in the back of your mindshed, then get it out of there into the sunlight and ask friends for help. Surround yourself with clever people and ask a lot of questions, and start making it happen. Who knows but one day if you keep at it for long enough an angel might emerge from the ether and give you the one thing you were missing to make it all happen.
Don't laugh. It happened to us.
Thank you, thank you, thank you, thank you, Robin Dripps.
Reverend Hedgash
Well said Dik.
We were about to embark on a long and difficult process that doing slowly only makes harder and less likely due to the interruptions that chance always throws in.
I've been tossing around ratio maps and scheming the various things we will have to do. Despite being a V6 we have our work cut out, as Sparky pointed out fitting this piece of work in as our car was built around one of the most compact motors there is. We will need to go to a fully pressurized cooling system and whether it be a wet/wet system with a radiator in a box or a traditional fan cooled radiator remains to be seen.
There's some housework on the car that needs doing on things that open and shut, we might even farm out some hinge and catch work.
I walked into the shed this afternoon and patted the tank and said,
" you'll be alright, we're going to do this".
It's been a pretty emotional week,
I Still.Can't.Really.Believe it.
Thanks Robin. Thanks everyone.