but i have some new photos of it and the work we did to it 
well it has been in and out of mechanics shops since May last year and has only come back to me last week. The total repair bill so far has accumulated to nearly $13,000. Now, for that we basically reconstructed the entire driveline and remounted everything including the engine. so i'll start from the beginning.
Engine:
This is where the main problem was. The engine itself sat in the bay on an angle. Around 8 degrees off if i remember correctly. So everything that connected to the engine was point down towards the ground by 8 degrees, including gearbox and tailshaft. By now i think you can see where this is going. The reason that diff snapped was because the whole assembly had been forced in there (back when it had the s6 g'box and 1.6 diff) and was putting a tremendous amount of pressure on both the gearbox, tailshaft and diff. i still have the diff gears at home with one whole side missing from it.
So what we had to do was remove the engine and remount it so that everything would actually align up properly. This was not as easy as it seemed. If you have a look at the engine photos you'll see some burn marks on the left side next to the turbo housing. This was because when the engine was in there originally they just put it in as far as they could go and left it at that, a \"she'll be right\" job if you will. not the case. we had to replace the exhaust headers as the turbo would hit the chassis and no one likes the smell of burnt paint in their car. So with the turbo sitting slightly higher and further forward came the next issue, the sump. The steering comun was in the way of the sump when it was lowered down so a custom one had to be made to go around this. I thought about going dry sump, but the price fiugures quickly dismissed that idea.
While we had the engine out of the car it was checked over. I think we replaced a fair amount of hoses, wires and other miscellaneous items that were torn, shredded, cut or damaged in some way. The engine itself was leaking a number of different fluids out of different holes as well. Lastly it needed new mounts to sit it lower and further back in the engine bay. The total distance lowered was about 6 inches and moved back about two or three so it is quite a dramatic change. lower centre of gravity now thoug so cant complain too much
but after that it was put aside until the gearbox was ready.
), registered and tuned (booked in for two weeks time with Rotary Motorsport).
