G = Getrag. W = W58 - conserving ink!!
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Getrag/W58 comparison
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Re: Getrag/W58 comparison
Unfortunately I don't get Betty sorted this year, like the rear seat belts for Baby.Hasi are still missing beside other details. So we won't make it to UK this year (again ). And we all don't know what the future will bring to us... but if there is any chance that you will come across Germany in saying 200km around, you are happily invited to drive with Betty and change gear as much as you like
This will hopefully convince you, that your choosen way by now is not such a risk. I had the privilege to change the cars a time on daily basis. So it is not only a shadow of remembering.
This will hopefully convince you, that your choosen way by now is not such a risk. I had the privilege to change the cars a time on daily basis. So it is not only a shadow of remembering.
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Re: Getrag/W58 comparison
Two Lotus is just greedy Don!! . Thanks for the kind offer to let me drive your car! It's your observations on the Getrag gearbox that has made me decide to carry on with it. I'm convinced the W58 is easier to fit than I had previously been lead to believe - it just needs some fabrication work on the box and a little on the chassis - no welding! Sorting the clutch actuation is just a matter of finding a suitable arm for the release bearing, allowing the cable to be kept.
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Re: Getrag/W58 comparison
Maybe you should have used an Excel Chassis
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Re: Getrag/W58 comparison
With all the GRP work thats needed?Hawaiis0 wrote:Maybe you should have used an Excel Chassis
and he'd lose the fun of the inboard brakes.
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Re: Getrag/W58 comparison
Funny you should mention the brakes Angus! Just been in the shed this morning working on those lovely inboard drums!! It is fun . Been building a lathe attachment to enable them to be skimmed.amarshall wrote:With all the GRP work thats needed?Hawaiis0 wrote:Maybe you should have used an Excel Chassis
and he'd lose the fun of the inboard brakes.
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Re: Getrag/W58 comparison
Where's the fun in that - It's already been done . Plus you have those heavy outboard brakes!!Hawaiis0 wrote:Maybe you should have used an Excel Chassis
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Re: Getrag/W58 comparison
Mine are big and lighter. You'll be needing themPete Boole wrote:......... Plus you have those heavy outboard brakes!!
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Re: Getrag/W58 comparison
At the moment I'm determined to keep the original 14" wheels which limits the brake disc diameter quite a bit. I've got some spacers for the front Girling calipers so that I can run ventilated discs though - I've found some off-the-shelf ventilated discs that I can turn into rotors and make my own aluminium bells. I know people have converted to inboard discs at the back so I'll look at that as well later on - really just for convenience of swapping pads etc..Hawaiis0 wrote:Mine are big and lighter. You'll be needing themPete Boole wrote:......... Plus you have those heavy outboard brakes!!
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Re: Getrag/W58 comparison
But unsprung weight and not touched by the master himselfHawaiis0 wrote: Mine are big and lighter. You'll be needing them