Bit of an update for over the last week or so.
I've pretty much finished up the engine now apart from the sump, cam covers and a few tidying up bit. The sump is away to get a couple of an fittings added and swap out the horrendous baffles that were fitted. I've got some cosworth vitel rubber baffles going in. I ended up sanding and painting the thermostat housing and oil/water heat exchanger. Turned out quite well.
The bc coilovers are now welded to the struts and a quick stop off at the powder coaters and they are looking very good if I do say so.
Then onto the task of fitting this giant adults lego set. This is where I started to run into issues.
The American company in their might and glory decided is was appropriate to use a mix of metric and imperial in a couple of places. The difference between 9/16" and 14mm might not seem much but on suspension parts this was totally unacceptable. This gave me around 1mm of play on the LCA bushing. The bolt being 14mm(13.7mm measured) and the hole in the bushing being 9/16"(14.7mm measured).
I've dry assembled the fronts for now but I'm waiting on new bolts before I can get it all torqued up properly.
The rears were slightly more complicated. As well as using the Apex rears I'm adding the full R32 gtr skyline rear handbrake and brake. Firstly I needed to slightly clearance the caliper sandwich plate. It was just touching the hub carrier.
Easy enough. Then I had to trim the handbrake backing plate/splash guard to clear the caliper and lower part of the strut.
Then it's all gone together pretty well and looking good.
I still need to find a way of merging the datsun handbrake cable with the skyline one and make a little mount for the cable on the rear of the hub but that's a future problem.
The wheel alignment is going to be well off but I've got both sides to match and it's roughly eye balled.
Time to fit the arches with tape and start measuring up the offset I'll require for the wheels.
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