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    fuck that. maybe you should widen their face to match the offset. if you find them.
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    So back from the dead. In more ways than one.

    This had been a dead thread for a long time. And there has been a lot of happenings since, though very little having to do with the ke.

    I can only update from my phone for now, so the story will have to skip a few years lol.

    Basically we moved to tassie. Met some great people. Met some real cunts too

    But basically from the days I arrived in Tas my health started going pear shaped. We bought a Small hobby farm half way between Launceston and Devonport.

    I started an apprenticeship as a metal fabricator for a small time racing fab place. Sounds awesome. But it was the start of a very bad run.

    No details but eventually I moved on to compete my apprenticeship with a stainless steel fabrication joint specialising in chemical and food n beverage stuff.

    Loved my job and was having a blast. Then the health issues stepped up a bit. Spent a few weeks in hospital and was diagnosed with epilepsy. A bit weird being 35 and diagnosed, but all the signs were there including a family history.

    Had ongoing problems with medications and such, but just carried on, knuckled down and tried to finish my apprenticeship in one piece.

    Then in September 2014 it all came crashing down. I spent a total of 6 months in hospital. I've had to relearn how to walk, how to talk, how to eat. Basically everything. I "died" a total of 3 times. I've had close to 20 operations. There isn't much left of me these days.

    I don't mention this for sympathy. But it gives context to the rest of this build. During my illness, literally in the middle of everything, my son was born. And, in all likelihood he will grow up without a dad. My illness is stupidly rare. But basically the doctors give me a few years at most.

    So first and foremost this car is a legacy for my baby boy. (poor kid. All the other cool kids Wil have electric floating cars to pick up chicks, Leo will be stuck with a pos corolla his mum won't let him sell lol) it's a bit nostalgic for most, but I really want to leave a tangible something for my boy. My dad passed when I was 15 and I have very little physical to remember him by. So while Leo won't "know" me as such, hopefully a silly little craps corolla will give him some insight into his dad and the things I loved.

    Secondly, this also explains why I am doing a lot of the things I am doing. And how I'm doing them. Now despite what you may have heard on the bookface and from today tonight, the disability pension is not a gravy train. Lol far from it. So finding spare dollars to play with cars when I have a 2 year old and my wife has to care for both me and Leo, meaning the household income is literally below the poverty line, is very hard.

    So EVERYTHING I do is based around repurposing and making the most of what I can and what I have and what people have been kind enough to donate (there have been one or 2 purchases along the way, but I'll cover those later)


    Nothing you see in this build will be shiny and new and fit perfectly lol I'd love it if I could. But it won't be. It is a culmination of parts and things I had gathered before I got sick. And making the most of them primarily as a form of rehab. I've had a fair number of strokes and various damaging events, and while I have. gotten off very lightly in terms of side effects, they have slowed me down somewhat. So solving little problems is a good challenge, and helps me progress in a rehab way.

    Sorry for all the ramblings.mm

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    As she currently sits.

    The next listing is basically a short history of the adventures so far in getting my old girl ready for her new heart.

    Before I got sick I purchased what I thought was a gen5 beams and gearbox. Turns out it was fwd motor and Nissan box. This is obviously not ideal, but it's what I have to work with.

    I set about rwd the gen4. A bunch of the proper rwd stuff made it to the shed.

    Due to my medical stuff getting under the car or doing a lot of up and down stuff or a lot of heavy lifting is very hard.

    So I set about a Shit plan to fit the 3sge and 6speed box. I'm aware this plan is flawed. But it was the best I could come up with lol. So be gentle.



    So some strange fella actually wanted the 4k. #shrugs. Told him if he came and got it he could keep it and no backsies. So he did. in the pissing rain. Must have REALLY wanted that engine. So now I have a shell that is almost empty of big things. No engine, no box, no diff, (need to pull the petrol tank) and ready for some tlc before the heart transplant.

    Back to my poor plan. Basically I had a spare crossmember and a 3sge engine. I knew roughly how they fitted from my build with the 86 and beams back in bris

    So with HUGE amounts of Google imaging lol I set about mounting the engine to the crossmember without ever once going near the car lol.





    I've given myself the freedom of 10mm spacers. Not ideal. By I can fit 10mm extra in my rca and it gives me a added bit if clearance for the gearbox. If I don't need em, I won't run em.

    Once the engine was sitting happy with the crossmember - I basically went as far forward as realistically possible and clearanced the sump. This hopefully again helps with gearbox clearance, and means no firewall work as the heater has to remain (it's Tassie for fucks sake lol) I set about making an exhaust manifold. Again a lot of googling and measurements mean this has been made without going near the car lol. I will find out when I fit the engine if the manifold will fit or need adjusting lol



    It's a not perfect selection of materials. The stock mild primaries matched to 2inch stainless secondaries into a fabricated taper and 2.5 main. All bits I had scavenged from work so it cost nothing well a bottle of gas because I fucked up and left it purging overnight cos I'm retarded lol

    I also set about sorting out induction, now that I and exhaust notched up lol. With some awesome help from amazing mates, again this was a mod that cost me nothing but my own time...





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    Love this pic ... I get to spend a awesome amount of time with my little man. And he lives playing in the car lol not much chop as a tool monkey yet. But getting there.







    R32 gtr seats. Really easy to mount. Cheap as hell given how ugly they are



    "machining" consists of grinder and drill lol. Worked well. Better than it has any right to.



    Modified my.j160 for a more appropriate shift position. Used an old nut, some spare 1inch stainless tube and a old softjaw to make this lol ... Works well and again cost me nothing but time. Oh yeah and 4old wheel nuts

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    Modified the oil pickup from the fwd sump to work better with the rwd sump



    Rear chrome bar mount. Worked well. Much happier with the rear than what I did for the front. May redo the front

    Thanks for watching tonight guys. Hopefully I'll be a touch more consistent with my updates and ramblings...

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    Due to the spacing of the 3s cylinders, the throttles are too far apart in between 2 and 3. So I had to modify the connectors. So decided it was a good chance to modify things for a low pull throttle mod...



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    That adapter plate would have taken ages to make. Good work and if there is any bits you need and if I have them I'll be sure to send them your way.
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    Hahha Yeap I did have to get my old workmates to drill the big holes. I had a hole saw but without a drill press I couldn't get it straight enough to be useull. And it took me two days to do one hole lol.

    The rest was drill bit and angle grinder. Soo much dust. But at least my time is free lol

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    So been a while.

    With a forced hiatus I had forgotten I had not updated some of the more amazing adventures I have had recently


    So for those playing along. I am rwding a fwd 3sge. I'm also the cheapest cunt here.

    So I had always intended to run the alt that came with the engine. I had a legit rwd bracket (huge ugly monstrosity of a thing) but it put the alt in a crap not fitting position.

    I had day dreams off cutting up the alt to fit the bracket. But Google images saved me from that.

    The bracket was made a while ago. It was ugly. But racing black covered it up fine.

    And then I set about making the adjuster.



    The thing on the right was the first attempt a few weeks ago. Ugly as fuck. Really Shit. Embarrassing. Then I stumbled on some random bits and Bob's to make a nicer version. That's the slightly less Shit version on the left.





    In use. I need to find a belt. Seems to work well. It's not perfectly straight, but it's not off enough to notice really. And I fucked up a little bit lol. The rose joints I got (5$ woot!) Were metric 8mm. But the boss I planned on using in the block was m10.... So I had to get funky and make an adaptor cos I'm too cheap to buy the right size lol


    And I can't find a pic lol. But basically just a right angle picking up a different boss with a correct nut welded onto the face... Can just make out the dodgy in the top engine side mount lol.

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    Well that escalated quickly...





    Not really. I have been planning this little adventure for a few months. Snatched a bunch of scrap steel from work ages ago. But have just not been feeling up to getting it all sorted.

    Rear will probably take me another few months lol.

    Was the first time I have used my gas setup on the mig. Goes good bit dirty with straight argon but all in all a happy thing.

    The rotisserie is needed for me to be able to do any work on the rear end. While it's upside down I'll also do some stitch welding. What's people's opinions on spot weld vs inch on inch off welding ?

    Thought I'd check. The car is 1600 at the widest (a touch under but I figured a round number was a good start lol ) so I will set the swivel at 850. The swinger on the car is close to centreline height wise and hopefully everything should be reasonably reachable without running out of turning over room lol.

    If anyone has built one of these before and has any free advice or tips, feel free

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