This was after alot of cleaning, so much dirt.


Not to happy with this but looking into getting another one done


Overkill but adds heaps of strength


Welded all the holes we didnt need before paint

The last couple of weeks we have been busy. I have decided to have to whole car rewired and paint the engine bay, which has put the project back a little and cost more money.
We made the gearbox cross-member, its a little bit of overkill but wanted to add strength to the floor. The motor and box sits in nice and looks good. We had to lower the box a little to get tail shaft the correct angle. My friend put a tunnel in that looks ok (better in person than photo) but im not happy with it and Im looking to have it redone plus a few rust repairs. That reminds me, Thanks tommo. UEC is looking at my photos right now, he is really helpful and is still happy to talk and give advice over the phone. I had to trim the drain for the pleniumn and at this stage I though stuff it, Why not paint it?
So we pulled the motor out and have been working on preparing to paint. I chose bionic blue from the XR6 falcon, I will paint the rest of the car once the conversion is done. I then deceided to have the whole rewired and hidden. So I had all the little holes welded up that we didnt need. It should have been painted by now but rain is stopping us.
While waiting on the weather, the ECU was wired and the loom was made. We made water pipes to fit my radiator. Made them out of stainless steel and they come up sweet, I will put photos up soon. I had a quick look at the front end and found I needed wheel bearings and bottom balljoints. Fcking why not do the front end? After sht loads of searching I found 4 top ball joints and a set of shocks at a little local spares place, so I bought them all up and have everything to put it back together. Ive got control arms and caster rods to be blasted and painted and will paint subframe once the colour is on.

u can use my guy hes really good ill have to get back to you with a number as im dont have it on me atm any way here is a picture of it








its big but its got a big auto under there looks smaller in the car

Thanks dude but it comes through the floor a long way, I think i need to have one bent up.

Just cut out a auto 180b one or something similar, that way it will look factory.

My 2c

ive got an auto 1000 tunnel that is larger then the original
just seen the pic of how you cut it hmm if you were closer id make you one

Does anybody know someone who can make a transmission tunnel in sydney. My friend welded one in yesterday but im not to happy with it. Its ok and will do the job but its very square and a little untidy. I want to cut it out and do it again.

Good one mate.

There's a good chap.

WTF Just upload the pics to Photobucket after joining and click on the one you want to add. To the right of the pic are different URL adresses copy and paste the bottom one with capital IMG in to the reply box on here and change the IMG at start and finish to img lower case.

Gav to put pictures on your post follow these instructions.

Shrink your images to a rasonable size 600 x 450 is the size I used in my PB thread.

Upload your images to Photobucket or the like.

When you go to make the post click the IMG tab above your text box (where you are typing) it will ask you for the URL of your image.

To get the URL for your image right click on the image (the ones uploaded to Photobucket) and select properties. The URL is the website reference you see in the properties window. Highlight and copy but do not inculde any digits or letters that come after .jpg or .bmp SO your image reference should look like this

http://datsun1200.com/modules/myalbum/photos/18511.jpg

Put the above reference into the IMG tab. Follow the prompts.

Picture should show up.