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ETS Drift Ute – Never ending story
In my last post I wrote about getting the engine, gearbox and ancillaries all assembled and ready to go, it was a long night and subsequently the next day at work was long and tiring. All I wanted to ...
ETS Drift Ute – Release the Clutch
Thanks to Stewart Furze for making up and sending me the lines to complete the hydraulic clutch release bearing setup. The two lines are for bleeding and feed, the feed runs a dry break connection tha...
ETS Drift Ute – Trial Fit
A few exciting things have happened since WTAC, one is obviosly this gearbox upgrade and the other I will get too after I show you whats been happening in the garage. My shifter arrived from the UK an...
ETS Drift Ute – Bellhousing in Motion
ETS Drift Ute fitting up a Quaife QBE69G Gearbox from Engineered To Slide on Vimeo. Little edit to show you some motion from last night.
ETS Drift Ute – Aluminium Alignment
Its been a long week, trying to be as prepared as I can so that next week can be a little less busy, heres what happened friday night, nothing like some progress to finish the working week. The adapte...
ETS Drift Ute – 3 steps forward
Tonight I spent some time getting my measurements right, the last measurement to triple check was the tailshaft, I dropped the parts and dimensions off to Pete Smith from A1 Tailshafts today and he pr...
ETS Drift Ute – The dream driveline
Let me start by saying it wasn’t a good feeling spending the required $$ on this stuff. But tonight changed all of those feelings, working with motorsport specific hardware is something you don&...
ETS Drift Ute – Its a numbers game
The most used tool in the building of this car is not the welder or the angle grinder its the tape measure, vernier calipers, ruler and micrometer. It wasnt until I embarked on the gearbox conversion ...
Quaife QBE69G – On the bench
The long awaited and saved for Quaife QBE69G gearbox arrived tonight, It was a good chance to get some critical measurements and plan the next steps. This box didn’t come from the UK Quaife fact...