Project 180sx for Portugal!

[EvojeepGal]

With the KD Race Drift event coming up in Lousada Portugal less than 4 weeks away, only 3 weeks until the trucks leave the UK to travel there. Paul/Polo unfortunately had to part with his car last week as a new owner decided to take it to Sweden!

Upon speaking to the organisers of the event in Portugal, the organisers offered their Range Rover etc just to make sure Paul would drive at the event!

Soooo.... On a trip back home last week, i decided i would go and have a look for some cheap skid cars around and see if anything would be suitable for us to buy and use for Portugal.

This one seemed to stick in my mind purely because of the speclist that was on it, it had a roll cage BUT it was needing the engine replaced.

On tues i arrived back to the UK with this ...





Thankfully the engine had already been removed and semi stripped, saving us some time and hassle...


So from the engine outlook after stripping it last night, we came across 2 scenarios. One piston had a ring stuck into it, and another bore was completely fuked and rusted over from been sat out in weather for a few months (even though it was covered) so wasnt really explaining if this was previously a problem area.




Some dodgy looking HKS cams



And now for some goodies...

Full original Origin kit with wide arches and wings...



Origin BGW & Carbon Roof spoiler...


Rear arms etc + full set of Apexi N1 Coilovers


Loads of engine bits, oil relocation kit, HKS FMIC, metal coolant bottle, full de-cat & downpipe exhaust, 550Injectors, Tomei ecu, z32, brand new ss manifold & elbow, exedy clutch, Cusco struts front and back, Cusco 2 way diff, Skyline hubs/brakes all round, etc etc etc


Full roll cage, seat & cam cover to match the body



Plan is to get the engine back running, makes some adjustments to the whole car in general then after Portugal dependiing on the way it comes back, if Paul don't make love to the armco over there the car will be for sale or broken for parts :thumbs:

[pole drift]

i want parts if this already

good luck, hope its ready for portugal

[grange]

how much was the shell?

[EvojeepGal]

i want parts if this already

good luck, hope its ready for portugal

Oh it'll be ready alright!

how much was the shell?

Wasn't bought as a shell.


Hoping to have an update today from machining crowd, hopefully the block will be reusable for a new build, otherwise we be disecting a black top block to change unter the redtop

[EvojeepGal]

As of now it is bad news We got engine back from machining and the guy said he would think it would be ok to re-use.... But we dont think so, the Bores on the block aren't as smooth as we would like. If we were to use bigger pistons this would be fine, but is adding cost to the build and also trying to locate some within a short space of time.




So today myself & Paul went to the workshop to open another SR engine he had at the workshop...


Only to find, apart from the crank and bearings gone (which is fine because we have some spare, BUT the block is also dead where the bearing ran around the crank :wack:
(Notice the very small pieces missing/cut from where the bearing sits)


So now we are thinking we may have to purchase a good engine as we dont have any more spare dead engines that could be used as a doner Block

If anyone has such an engine for reasonable money, please let us know asap

Some of the Jigsaw waiting for an engine to be re-fitted to the car! :smokin:

[EvojeepGal]

Ok, we're back on track (I think, and hope!)

Good news & bad news.... Bad news we had to spend extra money than had hoped but good news is we now have a block and we are back in business!!:nod:!

Made a visit to Julian @ Garage-D earlier and he had a red top block sitting there, just needing some pistons and a head.
Thank you to everyone who replied on the other thread when i was looking for one :thumbs:

Now if we had some more time we would have liked to use a black top block due to it being a little better than the red top block, But we have compromised this as the pistons from black top are the better pistons.
We are going to fit black top pistons into red top block, and hopefully all will go together without any more problems and/or delays.

New block...



Goin to start cleaning the engine a bit now and then see if we can find some correct pistons in the corner of Pauls garage somewere!