Originally Posted by 1439/2000
possibly eventually, but for now it'll be stock with intake and exhaust.
possibly eventually, but for now it'll be stock with intake and exhaust.
please fill me in on what makes it gay, i'd love to hear your thoughts.
hahahahahah.... *looks at your s/n* yeah.. do i need to even say anything?
Erin... thats gonna be a hellatios car when you're done.... maaaad props for one crazy ass swap. Looking forward to a mountain run when you're done?
I've been toying with the idea of a 302..... if someone were to back it up...
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Looking forward to a mountain run when you're done?
since i'm bikeless at the moment i'll have to get my fix somehow. should be pretty fun to drive when it's ready.
did the bike get sacraficed for the love of the project or something?!?!
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no i plan on getting another soon, just want to finish the car quickly and not go broke.
gay comment.
I cant wait to see this. will the hood be able to close regularly without cutting?
still awaiting a response.
loooks good, making your own mounts is the only way to do it.
Should be alot of fun when you are done
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made a bit of progress today. finally got around to pulling the T56 off and found out it already has a decent clutch on it. still has a good bit of life in it, but i want to use my light flywheel and SPEC clutch i picked up so out it comes.
got the subframe hacked up nicely today, cut the stock mounting humps off and welded certain areas to keep them solid. i'll eventually plate over the parts i cut off but i want to get the motor over the subframe to see where the mounts line up and such. notched it between the rack mounts as well to clear the front portion of the oil pan.... need to see how much more i can notch out to let the motor sit down. my method for checking basic clearances was to bolt the oilpan to the bellhousing and start beating the shit out of the trans tunnel.
as you can see there was a little work with a hammer, and i'm sure more to come.
nice pics! keep on taking them every step!
this shit is too cool.
Damn, Im gonna keep my eye on this. Good luck and props for a very nice and rare swap. Its gonna be a monster when you get finished, what sort of times are you looking for with it?
He's not looking for times...he's a drifterI could be wrong, but he does drift demo's with us at NOPI and it's hard to keep the tubo cars cool for 30 mins while we beat the hell out of them. Dand and I were tossing around this idea. It still may happen.
Looking good Erin. We should know wed if we got the nats
He drifts....extremely well might I add. Dunno if he will drive it in a straight line.
You are a fucking psycho path, Erin. How bad is that monstrosity going to throw off your weight distribution? I know LS1s are supposed to be quite light for a V8, but still.....
Keep us posted. I can't wait to see it done.
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He drifts....extremely well might I add. Dunno if he will drive it in a straight line.
You are a fucking psycho path, Erin. How bad is that monstrosity going to throw off your weight distribution? I know LS1s are supposed to be quite light for a V8, but still.....
Keep us posted. I can't wait to see it done.
Funny i was thinking the same EXACT thing...Im almost sure the ls1 outweighs the sr20det by atleast 100lbs but being v8 you dont have to worry about hitting boost to get the tires spinning.....all that torque should do that for ya....
nice swap though...you should supercharge that beast.....
You are a fucking psycho path, Erin. How bad is that monstrosity going to throw off your weight distribution? I know LS1s are supposed to be quite light for a V8, but still.....
Keep us posted. I can't wait to see it done.
actually, most of the extra weight from the swap is in the T56 trans, not so much in the motor setup so the weight is down low in the middle of the car. the T56 is straight beefy compared to the nissan transmission. the SR with turbo setup and such probably only weighs slightly less than the LS1 alone, although i don't have any scales around that go that high to find out. my goal is to get the motor as low and far back as possible, within reason of course. started some mounts tonight in the short time i had to work on it, i'll get pictures up shortly.
as for the question about times, i'm not building it as a drag car but i'm sure it'll see the strip at some point.... should be a pretty quick car even with the stock LS1 in it.
ok tonight's slight progress. got started on the engine mount locations for building my custom mounts. these are 1/4" steel plate, and will be gusseted on the bottom to resist flexing down from the weight.
a shot of the subframe notch for oilpan clearance. i might need to take a little more out but i'm not messing with that until i see how far back the motor can really go before it hits everything.
last thing i did tonight was install the new throwout bearing on the slave cylinder. i went to install it back onto the tranny and sure enough, one of the bolts stripped the hole so i need to drill/tap the hole one size larger. not a big deal, just didn't get around to it this evening. these GM slaves are pretty neat little setups and don't weigh anything compared to a standard slave/arm setup.
yea, for those wondering, the LS1/T56 is actually about 130 lbs lighter than a stock KA/auto tranny, and even though a SR/5-speed is also lighter than that, the weight won't be thrown off by much. this swap is gonna be straight up awesome, and i still wanna steal your car erin (after it's done of course)
Hay you know Hinson super cars sells mounts and all the supporting hard ware for ls1 swap. Been thinking about this swap since sport compact did an article on it. Good luck on the swap should be a beast when finished
Apparently the Hinson kit is just some plates you have to weld yourself so its not worth the money. But they do offer some nice bits for the swap like new clutch lines.
Hay you know Hinson super cars sells mounts and all the supporting hard ware for ls1 swap. Been thinking about this swap since sport compact did an article on it. Good luck on the swap should be a beast when finished
hinson's stuff doesn't fit all that well and it's not hard to do this stuff as long as you can cut/weld.
tonight was good, progress was had.
got the motor in the car and after many pulls and several proper beatings to the trans tunnel we got it sitting where i wanted it.
at first i thought the hood wouldn't fit, but after sitting the stock silvia hood on there all i'll have to do is cut one rib out of the bottom and i'm golden.
yay...cept for the CF hood part
That CF hood is hot, you could always graft a URAS vent on the stock one.
Great swap.
I considered this myself but decided to stay nissan. One question though, you said you were using a SPEC clutch? I wouldn't advise that if you haven't bought it yet. I have had bad experiences with those and know of a lot of others that have to.
Looking forward to seeing the finished product and see you at Nopi!
the LS1 guys have had good success with them. mike peters runs a spec in his 600+hp LS1 240 drift car and it's held up well to the abuse of his car... it'll be ok in mine.
i'm really looking forward to driving the car
At least i will have someone local to ask for help if i do the swap .... i hope.
the progress for today:
built the engine side mounts, used the inner portion of the stock "clamshell" that used to hold the rubber mount and used 3/16" plate to build the rest. just doing hotrod style solid mounts.
picture of shifter alignment, the shifter will be close to centered in the stock hole but just about a half inch foreward. the cool thing about the T56 is that i can make my own shifter so i'll just make an S-bend shifter if the reach on it sucks.
and i have to give a huge thanks to my friend Nick (spyder on here) for busting out his skills and making me a cluster with my gauges. we'll clean the appearance up later, but it's kickass and functional (and better than anything i could've made in an afternoon).
final mounting will be done tuesday when i'm off work. i'll finish up the bottom mounts and do the trans mount.
Looking good Erin, defintely making alot of progress!l Although it puts too many stupid ideas in my head.
That's awesome man... way to go.
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thanks man... i'm dying to drive the thing. i know it's going to be loud, it's going to shake like mad with solid mounts, but it'll be a friggin monster on the drift course
open headers?
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wOw, I can't wait to see this car when its done.
nope... corvette manifolds with mufflers and turndowns under the car.
dammit Erin!!
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Looks like its going very nicely.
yay
and i have to give a huge thanks to my friend Nick (spyder on here) for busting out his skills and making me a cluster with my gauges. we'll clean the appearance up later, but it's kickass and functional (and better than anything i could've made in an afternoon).
It will get done man we just need the weather to hold out and everything to get here
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Nice Erin, I can't wait to see it when your done. Oh yeah, I saw you in the Oct issue of Drifting mag. ( not sure how I ended up with a subsciption) It's the one with the yellow AEM 350z on the cover. They interviewed Dan and Tracy in it. So you may already know what I'm talking about.
yeah i saw that one
today's fun... everything is mounted solidly now
today's stuff....
made a throttle cable bracket to use the stock cable, as with most of my stuff it isn't pretty but it'll work.
bolted up the motor side of the mounts to start working on the bottom mounts
started just welding everything i could find to make lower mounts, in the end they aren't half bad.
how they look in and together
shifter alignment in the car
finally finished the trans mount, it will be cleaned up with the excess steel cut off and some extra bracing done but it works as-is
and the hotness shot
there's still a ton of work to do, but the hardest is done.
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