Spit Parts 4 Sale
Yeah… I didn’t get a photo of my Yaris full of Spitfire engine parts. Maybe tomorrow when I get around to unloading it. I hope to get things cleaned up, photographed and listed on eBay this weekend.
Obviously, I got over to Jeff’s shop today. Picked up most of the 1500 parts. Most of them look really good, I’m hoping someone can use them. Looking at the prices that junky parts are going for on eBay, I should be able to get a reasonable price for them.
Isn’t this a great photo? The shiny new engine, the open bonnet and waiting engine bay, the sexy car. If only we had that bell housing…
Oh, but how ’bout this Ford Ranger oil pan? Just LOOK at all of that clearance in the front! We measured today, and even at the front of the engine where the bonnet is lowest, we should have about 1.5″ of extra vertical space. So, if we set the engine 1/2-3/4″ above the frame cross-member, we should have at least 3/4″ of clearance to the hood. Engine mounts will need to be on the stiff side (we’re thinking polyurethane) to keep the engine within that space, but that’s okay.
Here’s a shot of the transmission. It looked a lot larger before Jeff cleaned it! Had about 1/2″ of caked on sand layered with oil. The Ford Contour that happens to be in the shop with it’s engine out uses the same transmission as the Focus, so we were able to use that clutch disk to verify that the input shaft of the Type 9 is, indeed the same as the Focus. So, we can use a completely stock Focus clutch, flywheel and pressure plate.
We also learned that the clutch slave/throwout unit from the Focus (again, same transmission as the Contour, so we had one handy) will not fit the Type 9 input shaft. Diameter is too small. So, I’ve decided to just add the hydraulic throwout option to the bell housing for $200. We’d spend at least $100 on parts to do it ourselves, plus time and machining to get it to work, so it’s worth it. It’s the same sort of setup, just with common off-the-shelf standard parts.
That’s about it for now. Biggest issue I’m having is keeping Jeff from modifying parts that I want to leave completely Ford stock… like the block and head… and the fuel rail, etc. He likes to tap holes and weld things! I like to build flanges that will BOLT to the stock parts and weld to those flanges instead. The goal is to be able to completely swap in another salvage yard Duratec easily without having to modify a single part.
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