Today I started disconnecting connectors, hardware and whatever else is needed to separate the body from the frame. I actually think this car may be a horribly treated low mileage car!? Every bolt unthreads as if it were new.The only exception was a riv nut in the frame was spinning in place. From what I can see the frame appears to be in good shape as well.  Gas tank is now empty and parts are being put on Ebay.

Engine and Transmission is out and the car is on the table.

Pulled the engine and transmission out and the car is setting on a home brewed frame rack turned into a frame table. Next step will be to setup the rear end out of the Miata and graft it into the TVR chassis.

So alot has happened since my last post which is very embarrassing.  I have been driving  the car and enjoying it before I started to modify it this year. So part of the design all along was to Fuel inject the thing and possibly do ECU controlled advance as well. Like everything else I do I did research and decided that Megasquirt was the way to go. I went to the Megameet figuring it was the place to see some cars running the ECU and to hear what other people had to say about there experience with the Megasquirt as well as talk to some vendors.

I had no idea how much info and advice there was to receive from that event. I talked to Scott who wrote for the TVR times and he informed me that a V8 was not the way to go due to fitment and driving concerns. So, I asked him what he would suggest and he said modern and light. I took it to heart and I understand where he is coming from so I am opting for a Ford Duratec 2.5 liter 4 cylinder, I am familiar with these engines and hey it keeps the same displacement so the car stays a 2500M!

I started looking for a transmission for the thing and decided to use a whole third gen Miata. I already autocross a 2006 so once again it made since to do so. I am planning on using all of the suspension as well. So here are pics!

So here is the 2010 Miata GT. 

Front subframe with all the goodies still attached. The Miata's 2 liter will be ditched in favor of the Ford 2.5.

The driver side took a hard hit. No big deal though. I may be doing custom a arms any way. Although I am nervous about the condition of the rack.

Passenger side looks a lot better than the drivers :) .

She is getting kinda empty. 

The rear suspension with all its multi-link glory. I am planning on sticking the whole thing in the TVR, but getting some off the shelf coilovers.

I decided while the tank was out to put in a plate to facilitate an EFI fuel pump for the planned Ford 302. Figured a coat of paint would be a good idea as well. Caroline could help out and all was well!

Oh, and speaking of fuel tanks. I had problems figuring out which fuel sending unit the Smith gauge used. Couldn't really find a definitive answer on the web so I used a 500 ohm potentiometer, and found that the match was empty 240 ohms and full is  25 ohms. So it turns out that it is a Nisonger Sending unit!

That did the trick.

OK, so I bought the car as pictured about ten years ago as seen in the pics. I pulled it on the trailer under its own power even! As a few of you may or may not know it has had a C3 Corvette roof grafted to it and the same vintage gas tank shoved in it as well. I am at peace with that, but the Diff is out of a Mustang II!? I will take pics of that and post it at a later date. I have been reading suspension design books and am developing a new independent suspension setup for it that could only be an improvement on its current setup. The grand plan was a V8 and is still going to happen, but in the mean time I figured why not get it running well?

I received the carb kits, fuel pump rebuild, clutch slave, and master cylinders from Moss. The clutch hydraulics were easy enough, but the carb kit didn't come with the all the parts necessary :( . I needed the Bypass valve kit!  Oh yeah and the clutch master cylinder came from a Triumph Spitfire
A special thanks to Buckeye Triumphs for the Car Article it helped a lot.
A Link to there rebuild article

So after all of this we attempted to light the thing off. Several cranks later fire and light! Let off the key and it died. The stupid ballast resistor was open so I stuck a Mopar resistor in its place. The result follows:

The following pics are how I purchased the car

It is a 1977 TVR 2500M