Prompted by Andy’s question about users not posting more, I thought I’d start one related to the journey I’ve been on to get my Exige sorted with all the things that I’ve been tinkering with since buying it 3 years ago.
I’ll start with a picture to introduce the car and then as I find all the other pictures I will post more of the jobs I’ve been working.
Pictured with my brothers hillclimb S2 when we did an Andy Walsh driving day last year. Highly recommend it, my 14 year old son also drove mine and did really well considering it’s got 360hp
So one of the first jobs was to sort the gear linkage out. This was autotechnik car number 3, Bernard informed me he used the Toyota gear changer in later conversions. As a result I fitted the Dolimiti changer.
It’s nicely made. Had to buy a second hand S2 handbrake lever as they are slightly different.
I married this with new SSC gear cables and rerouted under the gearbox to feed the Audi 6 speed from the normal way Audi does. The Autotechnik linkage on the gearbox required additional pivot points as it fed from the back side of the engine. The original design seemed to worked ok but but mine had all worn so needing attention anyway.
I also fitted an Audi quick shift fulcrum to the gearbox as it allowed adjustment.
The long bit was adjusting to get it just right. The gear linkage, the cables, the quick shift all had adjustment so it was a case of working through and tweaking bits in all 3 places to get the throw and side to side movement and gear selection both positive but not stupidly short.
Next up I changed the horrid roof fed airbox and pipe work. AliTech came up trumps with their CF version. They had made a one off for their car so I sent a message and found them hugely helpful and willing to make a second one.
