More updates of woe:
It's STILL at grinspeed (not having a go at them...). It's a never ending calamity of part ordering and failure to fit.
Mfactory 4.0 ordered, along with new gear hub required. Gear hub took forever arriving, got here eventually. Last week stevie took the engine out & undressed it plus got the gearbox ready to strip. This week we discover the ring gear doesn't fit my diff. DAFUQ. It appears my 'box is a mish mash of parts from other boxes, either that or Honda QC was pretty lax back in the day.
Long story short, it was either buy another FD and split it, using the pinion from one and the ring gear from the other... and havng a kit leftover almost nobody will ever want. So, it's new diff time. Mfactory racepack diff en route. Not much difference price wise and at least the diff I have left over will be saleable and it's an upgrade on the diff at the same time.
Jeezless.
It doesn't end there. New engine came with a wasted spark ignition fitted in place of the dizzy, with a crank trigger wheel and hall effect sensor. "Awesome", I thought, and bought my Hondata S300. Today I discover that Hondata don't work with COP conversions. They do sell a kit for £400 and then you need to retrofit it and find your own coils, leads etc.
It's getting silly. Nope. Spending far too much on this. Convert back to dizzy, leave the trigger wheel in place incase I get the urge to upgrade in future. Booked in at EFI mid July.
A few pics from grinspeed...
Stolen from Loxy
She appears to be staring at my nuts....