Greetings from Belgium

[bigdaves12]

Loving it mate, I might have to widen my rear wheel arches too so will be stealing your idea for the mazda 323 arches

What wheels are you planning to run, mine are 8j front 10j rear

[UmBongo1]

Excellent work.

Can't wait to see it when it's complete.

[XortioN.BE]

So obviously I have made some progress during the past months:

Fixed some more rust stuff bla bla bla
Repainted the underbody of the car and put my subframe on







And then after some hard work on the engine/tranny, it's finally in!

Some information that might be interesting for other S12 owners getting the CA18DET engine:

I used 300ZX engine mounts which are more rigid (less vibration/engine movement) combined with te S13 engine brackets on the S12 CA18ET subframe. I am using the stock S12 transmission combined with an CA18DET clutch + bearing (90-... not the pre 90!!!). Engine does sit a bit higher which makes the engine rub agains the hood, so I will probably be using hood spacers and search for a GP hood

Brake lines are kinda close to the exhaust and I had to remove the original heath-shield because the exhaust was stuck against it, I will be making a custom heath shield to resolve this issue.

I used S13 steering pump but used the return line of the S12 steering pump, which made it easier to fit the return line.

Setup:
- CA18DET
- CA18ET gearbox
- 300ZX engine mounts + s13 engine brackets
- T28 turbo
- XS power exhaust manifold

What I also did:
- Give the drive shaft some fresh pain
- New clutch
- New brake lines to the rear
- New gasoline-lines
- And ofcourse a lot of engine stuff


To the point, pictures:

[tim murphy]

Good quality of work looks like it's going together well nice paint work trying to get mine started at the moment keep the up dates cheers tim .

[XortioN.BE]

Time for an update

Finished putting together the engine and wiring it all up




Looks much better then 2 years ago




And fired it up for the first time

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XBjTqBF4-bc


Also made a trip to the UK to pick up some MK2 parts (complete front-end, gearbox and some various trims).





I was really looking for the MK2 front because I just LOVE the bonnet and it would solve my under-the-bonnet-problem of space lacking with the MK1 bonnet:




Difference in space with the MK2 bonnet

[tim murphy]

Good to see another silvia finished the standard of work on yours is professional mine is finished to not to bad of work just cover 90 miles cheers tim