Well, tomorow starts the tranny swap project. I'll be replacing the 3 speed jatco with a 60 series 5 speed out of a B310.

Last Saturday I found a complete B310 wagon with 220,000 miles on it that thay drove into the wrecking yard so I could take parts from it. Kind of bothered me to remove parts from a nice running car. I asked the guy at the wrecking yard why they were not selling the car as a driver. He made some comment that wrecking yards can't sell complete cars any more. This is in Oregon in the US.

For the sum of $160.00 I got the 5 speed, driveline, flywheel, clutch parts, and a pair of lower controll arms and radius rods off on a different B310.

The tranny has made a quick trip to the local transmission shop to have a set of fresh bearings installed. Bearings installed were $375.00

The flywheel made a trip to Dan Hall's automotive for a shave and balance. When Dan started the flywheel weighed in at 22# (10kg). After the shaving the flywheel is 14# (6.35kg). Flywheel shave, balance, and presure plate balance was $90.00.

After calling around and finding that none of the major suppliers had clutch master cylinders for B110's. Ask here yesterday and found out that the B310 clutch master would fit in the hole. Did some calling around and found that one of the local suppliers that is less than 5 minutes away from my house, Thrifty Automotive wanted $77.00 for a clutch master!! Called Halsey automotive, one of the parst distrubutors in the area and they had the B310 clutch master for $11.50. Some difference! Thrifty only wanted 669% more for the same part!!! Just a little markup eh?

The B310 clutch master has the mounting holes rotated about 30 degrees from vertical so I'll have to drill a new pair of bolt holes but that shouldn't be too hard...

So, it looks like all the large and small ducks are lined up for a successfull project. Hope things go as planned and the car is back on the road later this weekend. If I have problems it is a 4 day holiday weekend so I have time to get things sorted out.

I'm really looking forward to having a car that can launch off the line instead of kind of gather speed like it does now with the automatic.

15 years ago I was autocrossing a 1200 with an automatic and it was actually an advange because of the gearing. Almost all the courses could be run in low. That series did not allow drag race starts so the coarses were laid out with either a practice lap or a flying start.

The current series that I'm running has the clock start almost as soon as the car is moving. I figure that I'm spotting every one else 2 seconds or more with the slow launch from the automatic. a 2 second improvement is not insignificant... Should give me more than enough to put that darn nephew back in his place