I finally bit the bullet and decided to upgrade the faithful 173 and trimatic!
I purchased (2nd hand) a V6 series I and kit to intall it in the hatch from a member on the previous forums
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Today ultrabluea9x and I (mainly him!) installed the V6 into the car. I don't have a lot of 'quality' tools so we had to rely on an old scissors jack, a trolley jack that loses pressure, a couple of car stands and the use of an engine crane (kindly borrowed from pipjones of this forum (thanks Phil!).
After swapping over the crossmember and positioning it in with the jacks (not the easiest!) we moved onto the V6 with the T700 hanging off the back. After a lot of slight adjustments the new motor and trans went in reasonably trouble free.
I can't believe how small the V6 looks in the LX's engine bay - almost like a 4 cylinder! I'm sure it'll go better than the 173 though!
I need to run all the hoses, fabricate a gearbox crossmember and do the wiring etc still.
I'll post some pics up in the next few days as my digital camra is out of action at the minute. A big thankyou to ultrabluea9x for helping today - the job was out of my league and everyone else who has helped me so far - there's a fair few of you!
Sean
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