thanks mate. ruined a comp year that was looking pretty good too. My wifes going OS with some friends at the end of the year so I'd gotten the green light to do all the state rounds including camping away and doing the practice days etc. don't know if that'll happen next year but we'll see. yeah its going to be a tonne of work to get the old one stripped and then to do swap overs of any bits onto the new car eg dump, exhaust, ecu, WI?, rear beam, the reamed subframes with your eccentric bolts, engine mounts, lower control arms with the TT ball joints, a FARB etc etc think I might need to see a project manager! at least i'll have a spare engine that I can maybe build up and most of all a spare box to get an LSD built into without having the car off the road - all long term stuff though.