New Parts
I picked up a pretty decent looking chrome rear bumper finally. Its certainly not perfect but its straight and looks good from 2 feet away. I still need to finish drilling out some of the mounting holes, but its looking much better than no bumper at all. I’m just waiting for someone to hit it!
I also got a Getrag 240 5 speed transmission. This is less common than the usual Getrag 245, but its much more compact and also a few pounds lighter so that makes it more attractive to me. I’m not building any sort of high horse power engine so the aluminum selector forks should be plenty strong.
I still need to find someone to shorten my driveshaft since I don’t have access to a lathe, but that seems to be the only major hurdle. I’ll use the shift platform that I already have since I already rebuilt the shifter.
Next up are some new BBS wheels!
Here is the 5 speed after I picked it up.
I got some “Purple Power” cleaner and went to work with a brush and the power washer and everything cleaned up nicely.
