I received some in the past weeks. What makes these important is that they are the bits I need to integrate the late V8 shifter and cables to the early V8 high torque gearbox. They are the brackets in this picture:
The right hand bracket fits across the gearbox mount on the right hand side and retains the gear select cable. The pivot bracket in the center mounts to the cross shaft/selector shaft, and the gear select cable attaches on the hard to see bend at the end opposite of the hole. The bracket on the bottom bolts to the rear cover and retains the cross shaft cable. The smaller bracket with the flat edge gets welded on to the cross shaft. The hole in this bracket is where the cross shaft cable end attaches.
The pulleys are the infamous "green dot" pulleys. These pulleys are used to shift the MOP of the intake and exhaust cams to something more performance oriented (104 degrees vs 107) instead of the emissions optimized pulleys that were shipped on the stock engine. With these 3 pulleys plus the ones on the Emme engine and the original FrankEnSPRIT engine, I have enough to set up both the Emme and the engine going into the black Esprit with 104 pulleys. An additional benefit is that these are all HTD pulleys, which means they have a better belt tooth shape than the original trapezoidal tooth pattern found on the black Esprit engine. So I will get a little better belt reliability with this swap.
Now for some not so very important parts.
This is the rear cover of the Renault UN-1 gearbox as used in early S-bodied Esprits. As you can see, the shift translator is on the left-hand side of the gearbox as you look from the rear. There is something unique about this particular rear cover, however. If you look closely, the shifter shaft itself has been sleeved to make it thicker, presumably to keep it from bending under shifter loads. This is not what I needed in terms of parts, but I got myself convinced from some not-so-very good photos on an eBay auction that this was the rear cover I needed for the later V8 shifter cables. I think the modifications are what threw me. Oh well, it wasn't that expensive, and now I have something to sell on to someone else if I need to raise some quick cash.
