Offload Merkur

I should just be sending this to Dave Clark V2.3T direct, but here goes.

I'm looking at the Merkur all the time and keep thinking, it might be wisest to just unload all the shit.
Here's some cool stuff.
Brake system - $1200 (cost ~$3000)
JVAB big brake kit in front ~11.2X1.25 w/ Wilwood FBSL 4 piston calipers, two piece rotor (aluminum hat)
TCE big brake kit in rear, 10.6X0.81 w/ Wilwood NDL 4 piston calipers, two piece rotor (aluminum hat)
Hydraulic handbrake
Dual master w/ remote adjuster
AN-3 braided line throughout car, bulkhead fittings where appropriate

Suspension -
JVAB 41 mm fronts, 50 mm rear - I'd keep if parting
Medcroft special control arms and comp strut plus full spare - $1000 for all three arms

Engine
Two 2.3L longblocks in various state of disassembly
One 2.3L longblock complete with 4 inline intake manifold, needs going through/rebuild.

Management
AEM Stinger stand alone ECU and complete custom engine wiring harness. This was built specially for a Merkur and was used previously for a short time in a show car. I bought it when the show car was parted out a few years back. Considering an new engine harness is $500, this is great as it's harness and powerful ECU - $1200

Wheels/Tires
6 Compomotive MO 15X7 et 40 with Yokohama A035 gravel tires (tires probably ready to be downgraded to rallycross use due to age.) - $1000
4 Compomotive MO 15X6 et 25 with Michelin gravel tires (also probably aged.) - $800

Caged and rolling shell with lexan side windows, lexan rear window, whale tail, Cosworth GRP grill, Cossie headlights, Cossie 2WD intercooler, shorty radiator, assortment of Samco hoses, Bailey header tank, swirl pot, longacre battery relocation kit to an old a possibly dead Optima yellowtop in a couture Tim Taylor alumunim battery hold down kit. - $2000

Buy everything for $5k. Would need fuel system installed. Have a bracket made for a ATL fuel cell and have one that could be bought from Mitch at our shop for $500. I just had never gotten around to buying one.

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Grant Hughes

so, would a stock gas tank go back in?

if so, does the merkur tank interchange with anything, or am I stuck trying to find a merkur tank?

Just trying to understand what all is needed (aside from time) to make a $5k pile of parts back into a rally car.

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KF7RWG
http://www.utahrallygroup.com

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Aaron Luptak
so, would a stock gas tank go back in?

if so, does the merkur tank interchange with anything, or am I stuck trying to find a merkur tank?

Just trying to understand what all is needed (aside from time) to make a $5k pile of parts back into a rally car.

Attention span and memory. Like remembering that you built a great car and remembering to put the fucking thing back together and it'll be a better car tyhan some stock BMW thing..

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John Vanlandingham
Sleezattle, WA, USA

Vive le Prole-le-ralliat

www.rallyrace.net/jvab
CALL +1 206 431-9696
Remember! Pacific Standard Time
is 3 hours behind Eastern Standard Time.

Grant, put it together, get it all clean and nice then sell it. Nobody wants to buy someone's sad project! Sean's just sold for nearly triple!!!!

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sidewaez
Grant, put it together, get it all clean and nice then sell it. Nobody wants to buy someone's sad project! Sean's just sold for nearly triple!!!!

Put it together and go drive the gawddamn thing..
And Sean's price was a fire sale price...
Logically put it together, shine it up, sell for 20k+, pour that into a BMW with a stock trans, stock everything...that doesn't go ant better.
Logic. Inexorable, greulling, logic.

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John Vanlandingham
Sleezattle, WA, USA

Vive le Prole-le-ralliat

www.rallyrace.net/jvab
CALL +1 206 431-9696
Remember! Pacific Standard Time
is 3 hours behind Eastern Standard Time.

Man, I'm sorely tempted to pick up your brake parts. Where does one find replacement pads and rotors in the correct sizes, and what do they cost?

Since calipers are Wilwood, pads are easy. I was going to replace the Wilwood pads with PFC or Porterfield ones eventually, which are around $150-220 per pair.
Rotors are trickier. Fronts are from JVAB and are a Wilwood rotor that has been turned down to 285mm diameter. Rears are from TCE and most likely a universal Coleman rotor. Either can be had in many other options for minimal effort. Figure around $80-$100 and up per rotor,

Stock gas tank should go back into it. I may have to make sure the brackets didn't come out.

Transmission is a Ford Motorsports Z Spec T5 with Fidanza aluminum lightweight flywheel and Clutchnet six puck. Steel bearing retainer upgrade and input shaft turned down to use pilot bearing instead of bushing. Welded stock diff and two piece drive shaft. Also comes with Supra diff swap kit from TSS/JVAB and a 4.3 ratio Supra LSD. Four CVJ Axles halfshafts, two on car, two brand new spares. Two on car rebuilt and maybe 500 total miles, 20-30 or so competitive.

Wiring. There is no chassis harness with the car. I sent a box of plugs up to Sean for a duplicate harness to his but we never got anything worked out on getting it actually done.

Shell. FIA 253 cage with A and B pillar sheet gussets. Stripped down and hit with liquid nitrogen to remove all undercoating and also removed some unnecessary brackets. All in all, I removed 80 pounds of material. Repainted with macropoxy on underside and engine bay. Car weighed 2650 in rally trim previously so probably just shy of 2600 pounds. Not bad for a car that can easily be 300 hp.

As for the primary reason why. Money and time. I am still in grad school, graduating with my MS this semester and moving straight into the PhD program. So that is another 2 years at least of grad school. That means likely no disposable income for out of state rallying for at least two years. We started doing cages last year with the thought that we'd maybe do one or two a year. We've had maybe two weeks since that we didn't have a customer's car to work on. That has left no time to work on my own car. I decided to put some body panels back on it and push it outside so I have more space to work on customer cars and realized it would be smarter to just sell the whole thing to someone who is maybe a little more motivated.

Also, delivery can be arranged, you just pay gas from Denver at 17 MPG average. I'll give it a few weeks or longer to sell as a package, then I might be interested in selling off individual groups of parts.

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Grant Hughes



Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 02/21/2013 12:18PM by NoCoast.

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RDR
Man, I'm sorely tempted to pick up your brake parts. Where does one find replacement pads and rotors in the correct sizes, and what do they cost?

By calling the telephone number of the guy that built them and sells them.

I think its below V.. And They are not a Willwood that has been cut down... They are a custom Coleman.

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John Vanlandingham
Sleezattle, WA, USA

Vive le Prole-le-ralliat

www.rallyrace.net/jvab
CALL +1 206 431-9696
Remember! Pacific Standard Time
is 3 hours behind Eastern Standard Time.

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john vanlandingham

By calling the telephone number of the guy that built them and sells them.

Noted!

This has me thinking I should offload my BMW too. Too busy to tear it down first though.

Hopefully it stays local. I sent messages to a few folks last night about it. Just think, if you sell it for $5k that's 4-5 BMWs you could wreck - hell, maybe you'd even let Scott drive one of your car's again. LOL

Dave

Ugh. I should never have looked for this spreadsheet...

If you are interested in details about all of the parts, including stuff I forgot to mention like tubular exhaust manifolds, Setrab oil and p/s coolers, etc, you can view all $22k of wasteful spending here...
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/ccc?key=0AidvMDG0FXe5dFlBZWl5a1Y0UHBrTTNtM0JrRWdFbnc&usp=sharing

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Grant Hughes

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NoCoast
I am still in grad school, graduating with my MS this semester and moving straight into the PhD program. So that is another 2 years at least of grad school.

Where/what program?

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Kirk Coughlin
Woodbury, MN and River Falls, WI

Quemadmodum gladius neminem occidit, occidentis telum est.

Biostatistics at University of Colorado School of Public Health. 6th year and going strong...
I've had more semesters in college than K-12. Working on lifelong. Keep those student loans in deferrement for as long as possible.

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Grant Hughes

Grant, if it is just the wiring harness that is holding you up on the re-assembly, I could maybe give you a completion date?

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NoCoast
Keep those student loans in deferrement for as long as possible.

AMEN.

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Kirk Coughlin
Woodbury, MN and River Falls, WI

Quemadmodum gladius neminem occidit, occidentis telum est.