How much was the front track increased with the R31 struts? I've got a set sitting here and was thinking about using them. Also what steereing arms and tie rods did you use? Thanks. Wagon sounds great, by the way!

the rear end i was lucky enough to buy from a guy who had written his sr20t coupe off. its a shortened hilux lsd which uses 30 spline ford nine inch axels, which in a 1200 should be unbreakable! leafs are shorter or flatter or something? which lowers it down quite a bit. it just uses rx4 rear drum and i bought new shocks.

the front end i sort of created myself. i took an r31 strut, and cut the spring perch off (the diameter of the spring is far too big to fit up the 1200 strut tower) and while i was at it chopped out about 2 inches from the actual length of the strut to accommodate some koni yellow shocks which i picked up cheap and had rebuilt (which is also cheap to have done). so the front end stiffness is adjustable with a little knob. because i had them rebuilt, i asked for the soft setting to have a hard rebound for goodweight transfer when i go to the drags. the springs are just some pedders lowered made for a stanza which i modified. it is just running the standard r31 vented disk and caliper. both of which are huge for a 1200.

i'm using a 120y booster and new master cylinder which was quite a task to fit! i bought new nolothane bushes for the whole front end, and the swaybar is 22mm.

so what are you doing for brakes / suspension lagwagon??

Sounds awesome dude.
You are going to have lots of fun humiliating people in real flash cars with a poor old datto.
gotta love a sleeper

yeah Andrew that would be good....I have just arranged with John Taylor to pick up his little blue khana cross coupe which the sump guard would be good for....

thanks andrew, its good to join the brigade. and boy is it a sleeper, the paint is very faded and old looking you woul be very hard pressed to pick it. i followed your initial build very closely and was convinced by your site to give it a go. i wouldn't be too worried about your figure the number you have is either wrong, or something is wrong in the motor. then again, all a dyno does is measure resistance, and can be pre adjusted to any figure. i`m sure she's a beast mate!!!

Good to see another wagon on the road I bet its a sleeper with the ca18 stuffed in there. Even with a stocko engine it will be lots of fun to drive.
Craig it depends on the dyno. Ive seen stock as a rock ca18s with bigger turbo +booost making 200+rwkw. My ca made 170rwkw with basically stock engine and baby gt25 (290hp model) Im kinda diasapointed in the figure mine had on monday night (its only a number) Im sure Ill be more than happy once i drive it. Ill be picking it up next sat morning. Ill bring that sump guard down if you still want it.
Cheers Andrew

Good to see another ca powered 1200 on the streets off melb hopefully get back into mine in a couple off weeks just waiting for new shed to be built then im back into it

the cranc has been machined, race bearings fitted, bloc (my fucin letter * for *eyborad doesn't wor*) honed and dec*ed, pistons fitted with molly rings. head has had the valve stem seals replaced and has been surface ground. so the engine is brand new, with a couple of good bits in there.

the turbocharger is a T28 ballbearing off a japanese spec S15200sx. it pushes through a massive (probably too big but cheap and effective) cooler so inlet temps should be fine. exits in a 3 inch exhaust. it is all in and running, having covered about 400*illometer's already and running a poultry 6 psi.

very "basic" but all done properly. with the GTR injectors (440cc) and the 80mm air flow meter from the 300ZX and definately the most important thing... a proper tune, this is very realistic. i am aiming for 180, not 200 remember. i already have the injectors and AFM, and my computer has been modified with a socket to accept a reprogrammed EPROM chip. the engine needs to be run in for 2000 *m's (what the engine builder told me) and then the power up wil begin. honestly its not that expensive if you do all the wor* yourself.

i also have a wide band oxygen sensor and am ordering an EPROM burner to play with the tuning a bit myself, with help from people wiser than me, of course.

easy in words but what are you budgeting??? for 180-200 rwkw???
I was at a dyno test of a very solid CA18DET just last monday night and it was pulling 160rwkw and this thing was well sorted.