Butchered..

Managed to get some work done lately, had to remove the tunnel up to the handbrake just to fit the gearbox, 

i still need to mod the firewall to fit the exhaust, at the moment it will hit the passenger on the foot.

The gearbox at its final height,

Temporary mount to hold it in place,

After all this, i found that the driveshaft is too short by around 40mm, other than that and making a new tunnel its almost time for the real motor (waiting to get flywheel machined), then begins the wiring which is going to be fun..

And it continues..

Soo, i cut the fire wall and attacked it with a sledge hammer, shifted it under the dash about 3" this got the engine in and sitting sweet, although the gear box is still rubbing/catching on the tunnel but ill sort that before the real engine goes in.

Ill have to make custom gear box bracket which will adapt to the current S14 one,

The drive-shafts, the one on the left its the custom AE-SR one, the one on the right is the original AE one,

this shows how much longer the gearbox is and how much further back the shifter will be..yeah pretty much under the hand break.

NEW PARTS

-Breaks

I'm hoping the Ae86 breaks will be able to pull it up nicely, compared to the old ones 

-Exedy Clutch, Heavier pressure plate with organic clutch plate,

-Fibreglass gaurds,

they don't fit all too well, I bought them knowing this, I'm hoping I can mod them a little bit.

more to come soon..

More Progress

They say rust is lighter than carbon fibre.. but how light does it need to be?

So this will mean a hold up on getting it running, 

On another note, Fitting the gearbox;

It will take a litlle bit of  hammering, cutting and welding to get it to fit and to be able to do up the top gearbox bolts, 

All the guards off to get at a bit of surface rust and for more leverage to get the steering rack out, 

up grading from the factory power steering rack to a quick rack I got out of a DX, It changed from 3 1/2 turns to 2 1/4 turns,

I removed the heater/air con unit to make room for the cut tunnel and to loose some more weight. I also started to remove the sound deadening, I also thought the bonnet opened a tad low, 

Before;

After;

 Ill have to wait till I put the bonnet back on to see how far it'l open and whether or not ill need to put new stops in place,

The SR85

After selling my 180sx I decided to buy am 1983 Ae85 Sprinter Trueno. I picked it up from a guy in Rotorua, it had a 4agze turbo, a massive fmic and some tatty looking recline-able 'race seats'
I chose not to buy the running gear or seats as I would never like or use them.

It was pretty basic and a tad rough in some places but would do the trick!

Here's pics  from when I got it,

 It's currently sitting on Super Low King Springs all round with Vitara shocks in the rear and factory shocks in the front, the wheels are 15x7 Motoforms,

Surge tank set-up, used to be upside down mounted in a van, its pretty messy, but it's going to work, I'm planning on moving it into the corner and tidying it all up.

Yeah I know.. that tacho.. how cool is that!

foot pedals and steering wheel are gone already!

This is one of the roughest parts of the car, fibre glass to the rescue! I managed to pull the whole cover off the frame,  without trouble, there was no rust in the roof itself  but the sunroof was stuffed beyond repair, 

The motor, Sr20de engine, out of a S14 Silvia, came with 9 bolt flywheel, clutch, loom, e.c.u. and air flow meter. I also bought a gearbox at the same time, when i pulled it apart I found 3 or 5 bits of the 5th/reverse gear selector, common fault with the sr box, other than that everything seamed fine,

Bought a new fibreglass sunroof from Mike Shaw in Hamilton, was a perfect fit and awesome quality,

Then it was off to Derrick @ Xtreme Rpm to get the engine mounts matched up,

The engine was mounted as low as and as far back as possible,

I think I may need a sump guard before I get adjustable suspension,

My mate happened to score a sweet deal from Jason NZKW.com

I got 2 fixed-back race seats and a 42mm S14 Silvia radiator, all for a mint price,

Its a bit too tall but I'll make new mounts and put it on a 'g' lean once the motor is in.

Also just purchased these AE86 vented discs and backing plates off Trademe to replace the factory solid discs, I plan to resurface them before fitting them up, they also came with 2 spare discs which I may slot in the future.