Righto, I've been meaning to do this for ages but haven't had a chance until today.

I have no plans on doing the conversion anytime soon but it's something to get everyone thinking.

For an E15 RWD converison there's a few obstacles to overcome if it's going to be successful.

First is engine mounts.

Here's the left side of the motor:




There's a few locations to hang engine mounts off of. I'm not sure if the alternator or aircon compressor normally goes there but it's promising.

Here's the right side of the motor:




This would be tough. There's a monstrous growth under the oil filter (does anyone know what it is???) which could make engine mounts a headache.

Here's the profile which shows the lump:




Maybe it can be ditched, who knows...

The next issue is Dizzy and right below it, the thermostat housing.

The dizzy could be installed with a custom right angle bend or you could go crank-triggered ignition (I would).

The thermostat housing sticks out a fair way, but would still fit in a 1000






GEARBOX.

Firstly the E15 block only has 4 bolt holes and the A series box has 6 so 2 holes miss out.

Secondly the top left bolt hole is misaligned approx 6mm to the left (spacing on the box is 106mm and the block is 112mm with the right hand hole lining up). Thanks L18_B110 for pointing this out

Other than that, the box goes straight on

Both dowells line up and there were no clashing problems I could see.




Below is a pic looking back from the right side of the motor. Here you can see one hole that doesn't even come close to lining up. Also note that a plate will have to go between the box and block to seal off the bellhousing.




...and below is from the left hand side. It' doesn't look lined up becasue there was a gap between the engine and box at the time.

Here you can see the other hole that clashes on the block right behind the engine number...





So I just thought I'd post this up to get some discussion going.

I got the motor for free and it's a N12 EXA motor (a Pulsar one might differ - I dunno). It was missing most of it's accessories so I can't really comment on that but it's a start

Those 4 bolt holes on the top pic in a square would be for the aircon i would say. But if your not gonna run it i can see a mount coming off there. Oil filter side does look tricky, would have to find out what the lump it, possibly the pump?

Interesting that the gearbox bolts up (well good enough).

It definately looks like a pump but I don't think it's oil... Not sure

good research!

making me interested in this conversion again

maybe a megasquirt computer with ford EDIS would be the ideal replacement for the dizzy

though the main attraction to motors like this can be the factory engine management (which i tend to agree)

At least this engine has good potentiality. There is one fast and tuned turbo N12 on sale here.

http://www.nettiauto.com/1461909

This one has 394hp/1.8bar and the fastest 1/4 by this far is 12,5sec/192km/h. Naturally in RWD car the same combination gives better time since there is better traction.

Could you get a pic of the empty engine bay where you got the e15et from? i wanna do this swap in to my 1981 cherry, which has a fwd A15 and a wanna drop in a E15et, but would like to have an idea of where the mount are located and etc...would really apreciate it...thanks...

I considered going down this route since a friend of mine rallied an EXA for a while, so E15 bits are cheap and plentiful for me, but another opportunity presented itself.

Answers a lot of qustions, now who is going to be the guinea pig.

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No sorry - the guy I got the engine from replaced the motor a long time ago.



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Yeah, I'd probably go Megaquirt too, but I've been working on a custom crank ignition only Megasquirt which is paused since my ute was written off

Mine will have a daughter PCB which adds the EFI side if/when required.

I might put it on my racecar yet...

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so which two holes on the block don't line up? its a bit hard to tell from the pics, but it looks like all the block's bolt holes line up with a bellhousing hole! The top left hole is supposed to miss by about half a hole - That's been reported by 3 other members that have actually done it before, but you haven't mentioned that???

I was talking about the pair on the bellhousing halfway down - There is no provision for these on the block at all.

I will double check the top left though - I don't think I stuck a bolt through that one.

To be honest I wasn't sure which hole didn't line up so I assumed it was one of the above.

Sorry for any confusion...