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Done a great job there Cal, lovely motor now. Bet the pics don't do the paint justice

Well it's not exactly finished, so I thought you'd recognise that stage quite well

OMG what have you done with my loom Trust, I'm sure there's trust somewhere in all of this. Looking smart...... When will you take delivery of the "machine"

Second that helpful comment

If you go 2006 Revup the vortech backing plate is different to that of pre 2006. You can buy used Revup vortech kits, but they are rare. You can still buy new with either setup. If you can get a low mileage pre 2006 car that's where my money would be.

Its been since January for me, but I don't mind as the wait should be worth all the pain and cost.

Cheers Colin, but to be fair if it wasn't for Chris and Bob with their knowledge of their locale, I'd be left in deep shite. I'm one of the nature "never give up" until I'm of course totally defeated. Not one of these half hearted "give up" chaps. Took enough planning so I must finish even if it kills me.

It could bring the price in a bit. The exhaust and headers work was priced at £2,800 - so we are hopefully looking at a saving. But I'll not tempt the devil and wait for the fat lady to sing!

You may jest Chris from what I'm about to say, but I implicitly trust your work. If there's something I'm not comfortable with you know I'll say. To be fair Chris has been fairly courteous, "Ian, okay to use the HAMMER" of course

It's fine Adrian, if the fixings already on the prop were heavy duty, then yes. But they're not and as recommended by the prop guy who seriously knows his cheese, said a simple fixing will be perfectly fine. It's about 4mm thick the fixing point where as the actual arms on the prop are 2mm so we are actually over compensating. It won't move trust Chris.

Yes I forgot to say, the Prop was a blinding success. Cheers Bob for keeping your ears to the ground

Not yet, but will be doing so. Thing is they've spent some time at least making a mockup set of headers. I'll need to offer something in materials as I'm refusing to go back based on timeframe and incompetence (I do seem to find these sort of traders oh so well). I'm sure that we will succeed it's just one of those headaches that turns into a migrane! Being positive and the support from Bob and Chris being petrol heads just makes the process less painful. Ahahahaha lots of people need my services but I have a mammoth task of getting my 240 ready before June How could you?! Man that's just unacceptable putting yourself before others. Don't worry I'm sure there's a guide out there.

Oh and Darren - keep your phone handy, we may require your services fairly soon on the fuel side

Okay well I could in effect (as described by Chris)...... We're ****ed and will need to in effect almost start again. Done! The more detailed analysis of that is as follows: The tuner/custom fab guy who we selected for the GEMS ECU was the likely candidate as he's a one stop shop (please note this) for all the work required. Okay so we changed plans with the ECU to move onto the Emerald same as BIZZ, but still Phoenix (custom chap) was a little put out that I wasn't going to spend some £3k on electrics and ECU. Anyway, so we scheduled in January to deliver the car end of Feb. This was then moved on two occasions by Phoenix until the 9h March. We finally picked the car up after 8 weeks, a million emails and the headers not finished. They are tacked, and whilst they fit the engine, they don't allow for the power steering to be connected, neither can you change or even attach the leads to the spark plugs. Note from above, one stop shop.... well the work for headers and exhaust still not even started were farmed out to another company. So in effect Phoenix have done FECK ALL!! They said they'd get the work done in 2-3 weeks I may add. So we now have a set of headers that are unfit for purpose. Neither do we have an exhaust!! So we are hitting ground zero and the question now comes into play "Why don't we try the stock headers" - BOOOOOM!!!!! The fit and have ample clearance. Can't moan at that..... although as a result we started thinking about the delays we've had and the fact June is looming ---- 2016!!!!! Phoenix would have received the car back next weekend to carry on with headers, exhaust, electrics. That's no longer the case..... PHOENIX ARE SACKED!!! :rant: Saturday morning was therefore a case of to setup new arrangements. We are now going to use a different company to custom build the down pipes and exhaust. Headers are in effect done, so we have less work to do in that department. The electrics are now in question, along with the LS3 loom that we have ready for the Emerald ECU. The plan now is to ship the car to Thetford to see Emerald. Leave the car with them, provide them with their own ECU, and the loom which was built by them and in effect say "Fix that!". I purchased the ECU and Loom outside of Emerald, so hopefully they will have the necessary history behind the parts and move forward with the build. So this means we are taking 8 steps back, but potentially 12 forward. In sacking Phoenix we have the potential to actually receive emails in a timely fashion, deliver work as required, and to a high standard. The amount of work that was done the first weekend installing the engine, and the work done this weekend humiliates that of what Phoenix and Read performance have done. Shocking!! :boxing: So...... stay tuned for fresh updates as they happen, with the new plan in process. There's even a possibility that I may be driving Suzi back from Emerald..... who knows. June 15 has a chance, a good chance. We just need to get the two finer points now sorted. Thanks again Chris and Bob for your dedicated work over the weekend. Much love and credit to you and the family :#1:

It wasn't playing Colin, it was dealing with emergency situations and working out a whole new plan. What WAS is no longer and the direction of selected tuners/custom work/electrics is now changing. But for the better.

Nice one Chris great video. I'll pop up in a bit the events that unfolded shortly.

Deposit already paid at the mo sir. Can pop you as dibs if it falls through but I highly doubt it, sorry.

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Yes a few giggles next week are in order!

Okay it's time for a very small update for today. We have two weekends available in which to honour stage 3 fluids and pipes/hoses, prop shaft and throttle pedal. The prop shaft was collected today and a work of art to be honest (pics tomorrow) Anyway as I say a small update. Chris gets the car trailer in gear and hooked up to the pickup! Collecting Suzi from the garage. At which point Chris said...... No need for the winch I've had my 6 Weetabix today! Nicely sat on the trailer ready for transportation back to the Zed Shed Tomorrow will be the day of work and photos!

Said the doctor!! Answer wisely with this question, and make sure there's a single answer!

Nope, haven't seen a single LS3 - for a long time also........ Although I will tomorrow

WTF!!! How the hell is that possible.......

I was going to say I'll send these ones to you, but if your Mrs has helped you FIND your old parts, then happy DayZ! Well done Mrs Payco

If by magic....