this week has bought some good news and bad news, mostly good
cage quote done, getting a basic 6 point cage, plus some extra bar work (one important one for future plans is the sill bars), the parcel shelf pretty much chopped out and a new rear firewall panel. this work is all being done by Craig Helps at Helps Metalwork (http://www.helpsmetalwork.com)
before that can be done, its gotta be sandblasted (which is surprisingly cheap and only takes a couple of hours). that will be done the day before it goes in for the cage (so that Craig has a lot of nice surfaces to weld to)
currently making seat rails for my Sparcos, they'll be in before it gets caged too
picked up my Bosch 044 pump and cradle from Autosport, and with some discussion found out not only can he get all my brake and clutch lines i need made up to suit the pedal box (and from the solid lines to the calipers) they can all be ADR approved too.
Turbo wise...........the original plans for an external gated 3071R have been thrown about a bit
Peter had a talk to Garrett, and even though they've been done, they havent been done successfully. So they're steering away from them now.
Im now going towards:
3071R front housing
Nissan proprietary rear housing (roughly RB25DET size, but in a new casting rather than a used one remachined)
Internal gate blocked off
Having seen one of these new ones on display (was a 2871 front with the internal gate retained), theres a lot of meat around the rear housing for any machining that needs doing. its only going to cost an extra 100 bucks all up on what id originally been quoted for the "proper" 3071