LS1 V8 fd conversion progress thread

[CRAIG R]

Hi again Spartacus
Many thanks for that.
Is it possible you could break that down for me into shipping, duty, vat etc .
If so please could you email the breakdown to me at
craig.richards4@btinternet.com
Many thanks in advance.
Craig

[Spartacus]

Here are a couple of pics of the engine and gearbox, 1 showing the "F"body type rear sump that\'s needed to clear the subframe.
This is what it could sound like (I hope) http://videos.streetfire.net/video/d64c53e8-0e63-45e4-a122-996101360a6d.htm

[antnicuk]

ooooohhhhhhh im soooo jelous....   i will have to pop up and have a nose round

[antnicuk]

i have an engine hoist that should lift that puppy in if you need,  just let me know i can bring it up.  its an extra long one, it lifted the tripple and its gearbox in to the fd with all the manifolds and turbo attached.

[CRAIG R]

Looking good mate:2eek

[Grub2000]

Here are a couple of pics of the engine and gearbox, 1 showing the "F"body type rear sump that\'s needed to clear the subframe.
This is what it could sound like (I hope) http://videos.streetfire.net/video/d64c53e8-0e63-45e4-a122-996101360a6d.htm

uugggh...reaches for box of tissues

[Spartacus]

i have an engine hoist that should lift that puppy in if you need,  just let me know i can bring it up.  its an extra long one, it lifted the tripple and its gearbox in to the fd with all the manifolds and turbo attached.

Thanks for the offer but I\'m going to try and slide it in from underneath on the new front subframe.
As the rad and aircon gear has been removed I shouldn’t have to get the front of the car up too high (easy to say eh?)
Come up any time, your more than welcome.

[Spartacus]

Anyone trying this at home, make sure you don’t just have a single garage and even worse a cobbled driveway. It’s no fun pushing a car about without subframes.:o

[antnicuk]

i like that, only problem is that my drive way has an slight decline, if i turned my back the car would be rolling down the road

[Spartacus]

Funny enough so has mine, it\'s ok getting it out of the garage but a bit of a pain getting it back in.

[Carl]

Looking good there,keep pics coming.
Regards
Carl

[chris]

Looks great, again very jealous, post as many photo\'s as possible

[Spartacus]

Here is a pic showing the extra bracing and diff nose mounts that’s been added to the rear subframe, along with one of the diff all bolted up. If you were going with a “normal” US conversion you wouldn’t have this, but you would get a torque arm to replace the Mazda PPF between the diff and the gearbox.

[antnicuk]

that is some serious strenghtening to the rear subframe,  did you have that done here? or did the whole thing come from the states?

[Spartacus]

I had it done by a guy in Canada who was doing a small group buy of his design to mount the diff, which apparently should stop any axel tramp so the diff has a fighting chance of surviving.

There is a thread somewhere where another ls1 owner strapped a web cam under his car looking at the rear subframe during some hard launches and you would not believe the amount of flexing going on.