Many of his photos are on Datsun1200.com. See 4A engine swap

Francois hosted his photos on http://zagallery.co.za, and unfortunately they seem to have gone out of business

More unfortunately ... he hasn't logged for over two years now

May need to re-upload the pics ^^ or can i get sent them if you have time.

what brakes are u running in the front?

Got some work done in the meantime, will post up some text and pictures soon. Car running and going very well.

Got some work done on Saturday. Fitted the gearbox and motor so I can do the engine mountings.

Motor in it's position, ready to start making the mountings



Starting with exhaust and intake side mountings.





Bottom plate for both sidse welded on secure.





Mountings welded up and bracing welded in, there's four because I'm also making Izak a set for his 20V conversion. Fitted them for a final check.







Motor lying slightly lower now than it did before, very happy with this.



Just checking the clearance for the #4 trumpet, before the throttlebody itself already almost fouled on the booster, there's no way I'd be able to fit the trumpet in if it was still in there.



Now I must take the motor out again just to paint the dust plate and fit the final few parts, but before I do that I want to also mockup and start building the branch manifold. Going to start moving with it now, been blowing bubbles for far to long now.

EDIT: I also tilted the motor more to the exhaust side so that it's at exactly the angle it's supposed to be when in the original car, the sump is thus nowperfectly level with the road and the gearbox is also sitting the way it's supposed to.

I was musing over how to do the dustplate when a friend suggested simply cutting the old dustplate's hump out and welding it into the new one...pfffft...

The pictures speak for themselves...

Ok so last night I couldn't work outside on the manifold I'm busy building, I don;t work on them inside since the grinding dust gets in everywhere, and decide it was a good time to tackle the "new" gearbox.

The only thing immediately wrong with the new box was the selector arm in the extension housing that has had it's bush completely destroyed over years of driving it and not fixing it. So the gearbox had to be opened up to do this unfortunately, but I've opened them so many times by now it's very easy and quick to do.



I then realised that the "new" box has a slightly shorter gear lever extention housing than the old one, so I had to swap the arm and gearlever housing over. New box with longer gearlever extention housing already swapped on the left and old shorter one on the right.



New gearbox with the bell housing and lever housing swapped over on the left and old one with 21R bell on the right.



"New" gearbox still looks good on the outside, I just gave it a quick clean so I can work on it and not get completely covered in old engine oil and grime. When I opened it up I decided to open the front half as well, just to see what the synchro's look like and all I can say is I'm as happy as a pig in #OOPS#. This gearbox is so smooth and the synchro's look like they came out the factory yesterday. The only thing I'm going to do is to replace the front and back seals to make sure it doesn't leak any oil. Not that it did, but while it's out...



EDIT: The gearbox came out of a Cressida station wagon btw...

Finally the long awaited dust plate has been cut, I'll be cutting and shutting it to create the hump in the next few days and posting some pictures up to create a tutorial of how to do it.




EDIT: I just hope the bloody holes line up properly, otherwise it would have been all for nothing...

Here's the OE dustplate on top of the template I cut.



And here's just the template, I'll have them scan both and make sure the holes positions and sizes are right. I'm also going to have one cut since I want to be able to bolt the bottom part to the bellhousing so it won't vibrate. You can see three holes right at the bottom where I drilled the bellhousing already and made the holes in the template.



Will put the cad up as soon as they are done scanning it...