Unfimilia, I do not have dimension, but will take some for you later today and slap a quick Acad drawing together for you.

Will that do????

4 February 2012 – Assembly VII














It's been a busy week or two with organizing and gathering parts, it seems that always to the end of a phase there is all this little bits and pieces missing that was either never thought of or was to minor to be on any list or radar, but well, I'm at that point now. Since the last update I've managed to do the wiring on the centre console, clean the throttle body and thermostat housing, the rear lights have also been stripped completely, plated all metal parts, polished the outer chrome surrounds and replaced all the old sealing rubber. Enough Redline MT-90 arrived to keep any SR20DET(FS5W71C) happy for many years to come with the power levels intended for it. Also managed to get another hi pressure pipe made up and sourced some fittings and banjo bolts, just a heads up, M12x1 Banjo bolts is scary expensive, be warned. I nearly had a heart attack when they mailed the invoice. I also found a upholsterer that I'm happy with and tasked him to make me a set of dust covers for the rear shocks, they turned out exactly as expected, but then again how difficult is it if the customer provide you with a complete template.






Just after arrival at the car on Friday, I immediately started disassemble on the nose, as I forgot a very important piece of the puzzle was missing, thus also provided me the opportunity the make an anti-vibration plate for the hi pressure line from the power steering pump. The rest of the evening was used to install a new oil line and install the newly cleaned thermostat housing, radiator and all relevant water pipes. Guess what I will fill on my next visit.








Saturday morning I was tasked to wet sand one of the widened road wheels for a final coat, this kept me busy for far too long. I also decided to add a coat or 3 of clear lacquer over the centre console as it will be exposed to a lot of touching with dirty hands. After this was done, work started on installing the steering rack with the new brackets, all flex lines routed and fastened and hopefully I'll not have to remove it quickly again, I'll do it with a smile if the time comes for the shiny pistons and rods. Next in line was the belly plate/sump guard, due to the kind of events this car will be used primarily, decided to install a decent guard as pavements is a part of 80% of the venues, the item was made from 3mm hot rolled plate bend to the exact angles needed to clear the sump, it also have some reinforcements to the side in the event it takes a serious beating with a hard object. I also decided to make a few holes in the front of it, this will enable cold air to enter the bottom of the engine bay and cool the aluminium sump also, see it as another oil cooler.

Our Gymkhana organizer (I hope he reads this) always have the saying during drivers briefing; If you have to decide between a 0.5sec faster round or a safe round, choose the safe option. We’ll let me just say, with this guard, I'll pick the faster round and if something not that safe happens, at least my engine will be safe.








The rest of the evening was used to install the power steering fluid cooler and fan.












Sunday morning started with the installation of the front apron and making sure the cooler does not interfere and more of the pipe work completed. Next on the list was to finish the brake lines, these was routed and fastened to stay out of the wheels, then just to make 100% sure they will last longer, some extra insulation was added in the form of spiral bind.






The afternoon was used install the rear shock dust covers, a few templates further and I had a set fastening plates cut from 2mm Aluminium plate to the exact profile of the openings, then the job started to get them and the covers in place with some sealer, never again will I attempt this again in summer, it turned out to be a nightmare due to the heat waves that we are experiencing in the Western Cape. I'm very happy with the final outcome of them.










The final little bit of time was used to remove the tappet cover for some TLC, this will include closing the whole for the PCV valve which will not be used and to replace the outlet pipe with a AN10 socket. Afterwards it will be prepped for dome VHT Wrinkle Plus Black paint.

Seeing that the majority of mechanical work is done, the coming weekend will be used to fit the doors and windows, I know some spacers on the door hinges will be needed. Hopefully in the coming weekends I will be able to bring the car back home.

Without any pics, this can't be true.

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The Cyclone wheels are all steel and crap heavy, luckily they will only be used on the street.

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The last couple of weekends I were wiping away the sweat around me eyes as a heat wave was trying to kill us.

Other thing, great to see there is more people out there that uses good quality connectors. Deutsch Connector are very good quality.

It looks to be a plug for the dizzy, which will be replaced for some sort ignition system with crank pickup running wasted spark via a dual post coil. I think!!!!

Basically just cut the rack ends and threaded it further to the rack side. Keep in mind, the track on the car is considerable wider than standard, talking about +-1510mm hub outer face to outer face.

21 January 2012 – Rear Firewall & Assembly VI






It has been a very frantic week running around for parts and work to be done, but I managed to get to the most of it. Part of this driving around like a mad chicken was picking up my Cyclone wheels, these have been widened to 8J to fit the 205/60 R13 rubber better and fill the arches, seeing that the racing rims is 8J wide. Also in the post was a set of harnesses. Hopefully the coming week I can receive the first batch of lazer-cutting for the year.




On arrival Friday, I started final assembly of the fluid containers in the engine bay, hopefully this will be the last time they are removed as I'm quite done with all sorts of parts hanging around and not fastened to the car. Afterwards, I spend some time with Ignition parts for my brothers Datsun 1200 which kept me busy for quite some time. Just before the morning hours dawned on me, I just had to at least look at the mounting points for the harnesses.

Saturday morning started early with the rear firewall, I have never before walked back and forth between car and workbench like this before, remove 1mm here fit, just to walk back and remove 1 on the other side, this kept us busy for quite some time. Then it was time to fit the supports to the firewall which comprised of 25x2mm Aluminium angle, these also acted as the mounting point for 2 other plates to cover the majority of the whole in the rear.








The rest of the evening was used to manufacture a feed line between power-steering pump and reservoir.











Sunday was all about adding the finishing touches to the aluminium parts and to mount as much as possible. First in line was sanding the alu parts with 150 grit paper attached to the orbital sander to add a brush finish, I must admit, it looks great, but will be a bugger to keep clean, then again, I can just slide the sander over the parts again and it would be clean, let's see how it goes in the years to come.










After drives in a A6 and N rally car last year, I fell in love with harnesses made by a company called Schroth, being the most comfortable and easily adjustable harnesses I've ever used, partly due to the fact that they are some of the only FIA approved 3" shoulder and 2" lap&crotch variants out there, I just had to find a place that sells them, that didn't take long and a set of Profi-II 6 point units were in the post.






After spending some time under the power-steering rack, kicking and swearing at it endlessly, it was decided that the coming weekend will be used to redesign the brackets as the current ones work great, but aint that great when it comes to removing it. The power-steering cooler was designed, hopefully they can bend the 10-mm Bundi tubing this week as my handheld bender isn't strong enough to bend the tubing. Afterwards the sealer was whipped out and the assembly started again, first the spacers for the centre console, then the rear firewall and fuel cell spacers and finally the steering column dust cover.

A dougnut is only nice if there is 2 stripes!!!

I browse 90% more threads than I post on, I hate LOl and +1 posts, I only ask a question if I need to.

What GBox is that in the big and any plans for a LS, a 20V with a Open diff is a frustration.