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Post by Damien4884 on Feb 20, 2013 8:59:28 GMT 1
For those who haven't been following the s12 strut thread: Already had the struts apart ready for the sleeves to slide on, got on with it and before i knew what happened
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Post by Ricky180B on Feb 20, 2013 10:27:20 GMT 1
That looks spot on
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Post by Damien4884 on Mar 6, 2013 10:29:47 GMT 1
Must of forgot to update this. Before the s12 arrived i had a bit of time to have a fiddle about with this, so i made a start on the engine bay tidy up in preperation for the engine swap. I'm about 3 hours into removing the underseal now, got passengers inner arch done inside of front panels done and that bit done just got the awkward bits left Also treated it to a present upon arrival of the s12 £15 delivered, cant complain!
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Post by Ricky180B on Mar 6, 2013 11:05:50 GMT 1
lip looks good. Your grill looks good too did you spray the it all grey.
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Post by Damien4884 on Mar 6, 2013 12:42:15 GMT 1
I gave it a quick coat of matt black to see how it looked, i'll probably go gloss black when i do it properly.
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Post by Damien4884 on Mar 16, 2013 19:38:42 GMT 1
Pulled the engine out this afternoon in preparation for a test fit on the ca18det going in. Then i can work out where everything will go, whats needed where, then pull engine back out to freshen up and finish off the engine bay.
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Post by Damien4884 on Mar 18, 2013 15:25:26 GMT 1
So I had a bit of a road trip in the voyager last weekend and managed to fill it up with engines and gearboxes. I still had another gearbox and a few boxes of bits to fit in after this lot One of them is destined for the wagon and the other is ricky180b's. So out with the old And trial fit the new So next job is make 2 lots of brackets to fit an alloy s13 rad in the front for the wagon and rickys saloon, try and work out how to hide an intercooler and get the pipe work through past the rad. This should be fun: Then pull the engine back out and go fit it in YPK, then rebuild the other one to go into the wagon at a later date.
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Post by Damien4884 on Mar 19, 2013 18:20:11 GMT 1
Sorted out most of the pipework today, measured up for intercooler pipework. Now just got to finish off making the brackets to hold the radiator in place. For future reference i'm using a s13 gearbox and it dropped straight in on original mounts front and rear (using original crossmember) and all i need to do is trim a bit of the tunnel as the 2 rear bolts in this picture are hard against the underside of tunnel. The position of the gearstick isn't a problem, i just turned the gearstick that al made for his laurel round (well im guessing its the other way round normally) I got a front section of prop from an s13 and it seems the right length so hopefully i can swap the rear flanges over (bigger flange on s13) and not have to get the prop shortened.
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Post by Ricky180B on Mar 19, 2013 19:22:40 GMT 1
Loving it
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Post by Al Ramone on Mar 19, 2013 19:48:01 GMT 1
good stuff and good info.
that DET is really gonna make this thing move.
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