Nissan 200SX Club - South Africa

Hey RB25SX,Doing a RB25 convertion,Car goes in this week ,Can you give the phone no of Pretty Polish?,would like to make the engine bay look sweet,how much hassle is it to keep clean?

Pretty polish: 021-4489384
Nice guy the owner, also drives nissan. So far hasnt been a problem to keep clean. Will see what it looks like after driving in the rain this weekend.

Got my car back from respray. Will start working on it this week.

looks sweet!

I used a body shell from a rolled S14 as a jig to make the engine mountings, that way I dont scratch the newly painted car. I also had a spare crossmember from a S13 wich I used.


I tried to keep the engine as close to the crossmember as possable, because of clearance under the bonnet. I basically let the engine ly on the crossmember to make the mountings, I will then use spacers under the mounting rubber to get clearance over the crossmember.


Used 70x6 flatbar. Drilled two holes in each plate to bolt it onto the crossmember.




Had to bolt the gearbox in place to line everything up. note the front hole does not like up with the gearbox crossmember.

Here you can see the view from the front.



Then I cut two pieces that bolt to the front of the crossmember. Drilled a hole through the crossmember to bolt it to.



Welded some braces in to support the mountings.


Here the view after I bolted everyting together, and added 5mm spacers to get the clearance over the steering rack. The right mounting had to be dropped by about 10mm to get the sump level with the crossmember. I also used the lowest polyurethane mounting rubbers that I could find.

This gave a small clearance over the steering rack and crossmember. As low as possable without touching.

Fitted the intercooler. Everything looks much better now that the front end is straightened.

Will install engine and gearbox with crossmember from the bottom, by lowering the body over the engine.

OMG!!

Fitted the engine and gearbox, was actually easy from the bottom and no scratches. If I can give anyone advice, if you fit a big engine like this with the gearbox attached, its much easier from the bottom than from the top. You can also tighten all the mounting bolts on the crossmember with the engine outside.

Looks good with the big engine in the small car.

Now I have to build the intercooler pipes, for that I will use 76mm stainless pipe.


The propshaft has to be shortened a bit and the larger yoke fitted.

AWESOME!!!!

nice progress dude...

its gonna be a monster. a first for this forum - being the macdaddy of the nissan engines!!!

looking good there bud

That looks wicked.
Just a question. You gonna go with the standard Radiator? or do you need a bigger one to cope with the extra heat?

Hey, my first post this year!!!!!!

one question ????

What did you do with the Abs Unit

Ok and one more

Do you still have the hubs from the S14 ???

Yes, I will fit a bigger radiator, but for now I will just use the std radiator to get the engine started and mapped. I have a similar size radiator in the skyline and under normal conditions there is no problem, but I think on a track day or realy hard driving a bigger radiator would be needed.

RBSX, yes I still have the hubs, not sure if I am going to use them. U interested? The ABS unit I removed, to make a bit more space, dont think it was nessesary. Will just make up new brake lines without ABS. Saved a bit of weight.