Help : Anybody know where to get adapters from in UK

jp

Any help with places to get adapters from in the UK or companies happy to ship would be most useful.

help

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1971 Devon Bay with 1800 Ford Turbo Diesel Engine (wip)
1983 VW Golf GTI Campaign
1979 Mini 1275 GT
2013 Scirocco TDI GT

gerrelt · Posted: Thu Feb 09, 2006 6:00 pm Post subject:

shop from germany:

http://www.ds-tuning.com

jp · Posted: Thu Feb 09, 2006 11:31 pm Post subject:

Just got this response from Kenedy in US

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We can ship to the UK. If you tell me what your looking for I can work up a price for you with an estimate for shipping. I say estimate because I do not know what
the final weight of package will be until ready to go out.

We accept Visa, Master Card and Discover.

KENNEDY ENGINEERED PRODUCTS 661-272-1147
38830 17th St. E Fax: 661-272-1575
Palmdale, CA 93550

http://www.kennedyeng.com/vw_por.htm

Apparently SSP do them so someone tells me

have sent a mail to them so will let you know.

Had Response and SSP says no Sad

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1971 Devon Bay with 1800 Ford Turbo Diesel Engine (wip)
1983 VW Golf GTI Campaign
1979 Mini 1275 GT
2013 Scirocco TDI GT

richbaker78 · Teacher of Padawans Joined: 31 Jan 2006 Posts: 1298

for subaru www.rjes.co.uk are awesome bits of kit - uses a bellhousing rather than an adaprtor plate. Means you use subaru F/W, clutch and starter - minimal hybrid parts.

steamo · Posted: Wed Feb 15, 2006 11:55 am Post subject:

Hi are there any people out there are looking for Ford adapter plates - the more people who ring GBE the better I reckon - especially if we could get enough to make a batch. I'm ringing them at luch time to see if there is any chance at all. Meanwhile post here if your interested

I'm ringing them today as I've jsut sold my mini and I'm gutted - got to get my teeth into the camper project to fill the void - plus Ive actually got some cash now.

Simon

steamo · Posted: Wed Feb 15, 2006 4:14 pm Post subject:

Spoken to GBE this afternoon, it seems as thought they stopped making the plates as 4 times in ten they were supplied duff info about the engine or gearbox and it became more hassle than it was worth

Gutted because I really want to get cracking.

jp · Posted: Wed Feb 15, 2006 4:25 pm Post subject:

What a bugger... I will be removing mine v.soon next week or so.. I wonder what it would cost to get one made up off that ! prob stupid money.

Think Rich is off to machinist V. soon could get him to take with him and ask.

Don't give up hope yet... 2nd hand ones occasionally come up for sale. Wink

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1971 Devon Bay with 1800 Ford Turbo Diesel Engine (wip)
1983 VW Golf GTI Campaign
1979 Mini 1275 GT
2013 Scirocco TDI GT

steamo · Posted: Wed Feb 15, 2006 4:54 pm Post subject:

Not giving up! My bus is destined for water cooling.

The ford diesel is definatly my conversion of choice - If I can get an adapter.

If you do get yours to a machinest then let me know I would be most interested.

To be honest I havn't got strict time constraints as I've got tons of resto work to do as well. Just wanna do some interesting stuff to keep me motivated - I'm fed up of fixing other peoples bodges, they never fail to suprise me.

Cheers

steamo · Posted: Wed Mar 01, 2006 2:16 pm Post subject:

I've found a used Ford to VW adapter - £50 comes with input shaft and bearing spacer??

I'm getting it tonight. Won't be going in my bus straight away so I'm going to take it to an engineering firm to see how much it'd cost to replicate. (There is a local firm who have made adapters for landrover to mercedes autobox for my work - so hopefully they'll be able to do it)

If anyone is interested in one let me know I'll have a price next week sometime hopefully.