The engine and gearbox are ready so on to the internal bits.
Don't need this any more
Space for the new shifter
A6 shift lever on a custom bracket. This bracket is 'knife & forked' from flat plate and angle section. The production run will be CNC'd and folded.
The other half of the shift levers. Autofocus on the Oneplus One sucks btw.
Fitted in the tunnel with the protective boot (this is an adapted A6 boot btw since the D2 one of course is NLA)
Shifter in place
Shift rods from the tunnel
They attach to these
I split the shifter rods using some custom turned adapters so that they can be split at the back of the gearbox from under the car. This means you don't have to pull the centre console out to remove the engine. I'll show how this goes together when the engine & box go back in.
On to the pedals.
Conveniently, whoever designed the firewall on the D2 didn't get the message there wasn't going to be a manual RHD version, so they put a place for the clutch hose to go through the sheet metal
This is pretty much a mirror image of where it is on the LHD models.
Hole drilled and a pull-through, er, pulled through
This is where the hose will come through the sound deadening.
and this is where it all went a bit Pete Tong. I bled the clutch master cylinder on the bench before fitting it to the car, and while I was doing so discovered that the seals had failed
I think operating it dry while I've been designing the pedal has trashed the internals and so it can't create enough pressure to operate the clutch fork. I can't get a new one until Tuesday.
Bugger
Mike's Murple is in on Monday for an engine-out service so the swap has to go on hold while we do that. Its unlikely I'll get any time to finish it off before Germany now.
So close...