Today I dropped off the car at Stewart Wilkins after a nice little drive with James on the way. Strapped in the R33 gearbox in the boot of the Nissan with an old sleeping bag and heavy cardboard box to make sure it didn’t move. It was quiet solidly strapped in J
We ducked out and to the workshop and spoke with Stewart. He is an unassuming guy, very quietly spoken and it was interesting talking with him. You got the impression he had been around for a while and didn't come across as cocky or full of himself, kind of reminded me a bit of my grand father who was a motor mechanic with his own service station. James was asking lots of questions and looking around the place and i was kind of just sitting back trying to take it all in and see what was going on. We had a little look around the workshop at the varying cars predominantly rally based. A nice DR30 was in the front with some fairly nice work done to it which is apparently for sale as well.
Thought Rob and Alister would like this one - very nice indeed.
He had a bell housing already half complete sitting on the floor as he does a lot of them but mostly on an exchange basis not doing the whole conversion. This worries me a little just thinking about it but I take solace in the fact that he has been doing work with Nissans for a large number of years and is well respected and has a very good rep.
Hopefully everything will work out but there is a lot to go wrong and i think it is playing on my mind a bit
I have to decide what route I will take with the tail shaft, there are 3 options it seems but it depends on the condition of the standard tail shaft.
- 1. Keep the standard tail shaft and cut the end of it off and weld on a R33 end - $300
- 2. Use a common tail shaft from a ford and splice in the two ends - $650
- 3. Custom tail shaft - $850
It will depend on the condition of the current tail shaft and hopefully I will find out more on Monday once they pull the gearbox out.
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