Dusterbd13-michael said:I love c4 sawblades pretty sure theres nothing they don't look good on.
Corvettes
Dusterbd13-michael said:I love c4 sawblades pretty sure theres nothing they don't look good on.
Corvettes
Hahaha, so true!
Pete Gossett said:Dusterbd13-michael said:I love c4 sawblades pretty sure theres nothing they don't look good on.
Corvettes
In reply to Pete Gossett :
Not wrong about late c4s!
Can't wait to see them all mounted up. They look sick. I lied to you earlier, I actually had the C4 "salad spinner" wheels on my 90's boat, which also look good on literally everything.
In reply to GIRTHQUAKE :
for the price of cams I'd just turbo/supercharge/giggle gas and make way more horsies tbh
In reply to maschinenbau :
corvette wheels in general are underrated. Can get some thicc wheels for very low dollar.
Salad spinners fit that car way more than the ones I have imo. But yea, would look sweet either way. Can't go wrong
I love 1uz noises.
Idk why I love these things, but I want one.
In for massive weight reduction VIP two Chinese screamers 1UZ build.
Some updates now that the world is shut down and I am pretending school is also shut down.
Got the new shoes on after spending too much time experimenting the best way to clearance a fender. Pro tip: fender rolling sucks, just cut off/flap disk everything flush.
Also earlier I decided to install some blue LEDs inside my diff for street cred. Now the car makes this weird chirping noise when I'm going around the McDs drive through
Also started working on installing a hydraulic handbrake. Gonna do berkeley all to help me with comp but I'll be damned if I won't have a good time. My whole goal for this car is to be a roudy drift car that's still comfortable enough to be a daily driver. That means I'm keeping a full interior. I hate the look of hydros that are just kinda hacked into place and jutting out of various panels. So I came up with a way to mount it under the center console and keep it hidden.
Mounting plate prep'd and ready to weld. Painted the underside in an effort to prevent rust but a good bit will still probably burn away. Of course a few days after doing this I discovered weld-through primer was a thing. Oh well.
And here it is welded up and bolted in. The gist of the idea is that the handle is relocated next to the shifter and a new pivot point made using a rod end that bolts to the body below the handle.
Looks DOPE on those sawblades! Let me know when you're ready to borrow my nitrous kit.
And they say nothing is good in the news nowadays, That looks awesome!
In reply to maschinenbau (I live here) :
Thank u brother, bring that kit to comp we'll install it in the parking lot lol
Been a while but updates! Got the manual transmission in so now I need to work on a clutch pedal and drive shaft solution (have some ideas for both). Gonna do a little photo dump here
Drew up an adapter plate and cut a test piece out of mdf to make sure it fits all the holes.
Had to make a few modifications but overall it fit up pretty good!
Also ended up turning down my own pilot bushing adapter to accept the Nissan input shaft (300zx transmission).
Also picked up a flywheel from Odyssey Fab for about 200$. It's a modified 90s 4runner flywheel, I had actually bought one to modify myself but I don't quite trust my machining skills yet and had room in the budget so why not. You can see the aluminum adapter here too (shout out to Nine Lives Racing for lending some CNC router time).
Also to account for the 0.5" increase in bellhousing thickness, I extended my throwout bearing sleeve 0.5" to ensure clutch throw feels stock. Luckily I have a 300ZX and a bunch of spares (read: blown motors) that I could use to take my measurements off of to make the adapters and sleeve extension.
Fun fact: a 1" craftsman socket fits perfectly inside the sleeve and is a great tool to make sure you weld everything back up concentric LOL
Clutch and pressure plate on, clutch disk is an oem style exedy for a Z32 and pressure plate is the finest economy tier turbo MR2 plate you can buy on rock auto
Since the 1uz starter is on the engine side you need to clearance the bellhousing a bit to make sure the gear can engage with the flywheel.
And transmission is on!
Bit of a tight fit but it goes in without hammering the tunnel! Shifter even lines up perfect!
Got a lot to do still but by some miracle I might actually make it to comp!
Very cool!
Somehow I missed it when you said manual swap LS400. What a way to party!
It's like an aristocratic middle finger. Grey poupon on a cheap hotdog. Like my necktie with the Mona Lisa printed on. Very classy, but also very obnoxious.
I highly approve. Hope to see this thing in Gainesville.
Congrats on getting the trans mounted up! Big step, and a lotta time/work involved I'm sure.
Woohooo!
Couple more updates, got the clutch pedal in. Initially I found out that amount I extended the throwout bearing sleeve by was inadequate and I was overextending my slave cyl. Had to pull the tranny back out to reassess and remeasure. I also decided to measure clutch spline engagement and found I was engaged on 0.62" of the total 0.9". There was an oem 0.18" spacer behind the original flexplate so I slid that behind the flywheel to maximize spline engagement and took that into account when remeasuring for the new TOB extension. To do this I just took measurements by sticking feeler gauges thru the exposed starter hole on the tranny and found out I was short by about half an inch! My theory is that I just didn't account for the pressure plate teeth sinking in as you bolt the clutch. Unfortunately on the other side of things, the spacer behind the flywheel meant I had only about 5mm of thread engagement, which I noticed only after stretching my flywheel bolts and chowdering the crank threads. Ouch. But a trip to summit for new arp hardware and an hour of puckering my bunghole into a black hole while chasing threads in my crank and she was good as new bolted up. Got the transmission back in with the TOB sleeve extended properly and the clutch bled and everything seems okay. Started on the transmission mount too. Dropped off a Z32 driveshaft along with the LS400 driveshaft at a shop this morning to get a frankenstein driveshaft built. After that all I need is a shifter mount and she's ready for the first drive! Getting close ...
Master cylinder bolted in. There was a stud in the firewall that I punched out and used as a pilot hole.
Clutch pedal was made by gutting the bracket the ebrake mounted to and welding braces to a 300ZX pedal in place. Shaved the top of the pedal bracket too to get the pedal able to sit where I wanted.
In order to get the pedal to reach the firewall I had to extend the fork on the master about 6"!
Trans cross member tacked up. Used a stock 300zx mount with the ears lopped off and replaced with some angle iron made up to the frame. Looks jank, works great!
Oh how I love working up underneath the dash...
Nice job!
In reply to Robbie (Forum Supporter) :
Despite toyotas best efforts to make it a bitch and a half by shoving every single electron box they could think of under there, it actually wasn't too bad. Went pretty smooth though I did almost set the car on fire trying to tack weld the pedal in place
Not a particularly picture heavy post but I'll start with the good stuff:
She works! Clutch pedal needs some adjustment as there's about a 10:1 ratio of play to engagement but other than that everything works perfectly!
Don't have any pictures but I did the driveshaft by bringing a 300ZX driveshaft and the LS400 driveshaft to a shop and having them slap the Z yoke on the LS 2 piece shaft, worked great and only cost me 100$! I think at this point I'll be roughly $1500 into budget all said and done so maybe some room for boost next year...
Other big fab project of the day was the shifter bracket. The stock Z32 bracket that came with my transmission sits on a little pivot and is bolted to the chassis via a rubber bushing. What I did to make it work was position the bracket roughly level and weld some strips of 1/8" between the pivoting bit and shifter mount plate. Pretty ghetto and flexes a bit in the car but it works!
Transmission also came with this Megan Racing short throw shifter. I have the same one in my Z32.
Looking and sounding good. Mine revs a little free-er but that is partly to do with the 7 pound flywheel. Have fun at the challenge.
In reply to stafford1500 :
Thanks! What flywheel are you running?
In reply to papamilad :
It is one I drew up and turned to receive a Tilton 7.25" triple plate. It bolts on behind the flex plate.
I can check to see if I still have CAD/drawings. It started as a 30 pound chunk and kept getting lighter until there was a flywheel. It spent a lot of time on my friends SouthBend and lots of chips were made. I am sure i have a few pics of it going together, but probably not any of it during the machining process.
In reply to stafford1500 :
Oh yeah thats a bit above my level lol, mine is just a 4runner flywheel with the holes bored out a bit
I'd love to see some more of your build
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