getting my head straight after the vwaction show at the weekend and after a quick call to peter englezos at cogbox about the spec for a new transmission it’s off on a shopping trip in the bus, first stop protyre in bristol for MORE tyres.

they’re nice people, helpful and have got a full lazer alignment setup. helpfully they confirmed that the back end of the bus is ‘on the piss’ as it were, unfortunately they were somewhat reluctant to actually realign it.
however a quick call to paul miller at harry harpics (who did the original IRS conversion) came up trumps. paul has promised to sort it all out ASAP. unfortunately paul is in southend. so, a nother trek across the country to use up some petrol.

i might be able to combine a few jobs in one go however. i have some interior & trim parts to pick up from karmann konnection and might be able to combine with a call into peter at cogbox to finalise about the new gearbox & transmission setup.

for those of you that are interested i think it might end up with something like a Rhino case with similar ratios to the current 1303s box in the bus, heavy duty/race driveshafts, superdiff or similar, 181 CV joints & all the rest. PLUS lots of strapping to hold it all in place. peter said to talk more tomorrow after he’s had a think about it. i’ll probably just go with what he recommends.

oh, nearly forgot.
while i was there a REAL dragster turned up, it even said so on the side…

here it is, in all its glory.