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And money... hahaha, although this project hasn't gotten to out of hand yet.

looking good despite the setbacks dude, keep it up!

Well I got the two carrier bearings done and mounted in the car. However i'm rethinking the rear part of the driveshaft. I was planning on keeping with the angle of the transmission. I realized though that the shaft has a C.V. joint in the middle. This way I can raise the rear subframe up a little higher if I want.

As of right now I have everything lined up, but the subframe does seem to sit kinda low.

if you raise it, make sure to leave some playing room, as the engine will move along with the trans and the CV in the shaft is there to allow this movement.

who sold you the junk man?You really need to warn if there is a con amoung us,ive ran a brick and motar business for over 10 years and you simply dont sell junk... please put a feedback down so noone else gets ripped off,,btw nice fab skills,,ever heard of a isuzu impulse rs?i have 3 of them

Not exactly true. The driveshaft is fixed on that end, the spline connection and U joint on the transmission will take care of the movement of the engine. I'm pretty sure the CV joint is there to account for the angle difference that the rear subframe needs to be.

This it the 'GT4' driveshaft _Jim_ sent me versus the real one. The longer one is the actual GT4 shaft. Anyone looking to do this swap don't buy a damn thing from him you'll be lucky if you get anything, if you do itll probably wrong or broken.



These are the awesome axles he sent me.






Anyways, i'm still debating what I want to do with the front mounts. The rear mounts are made and tacked in. Doesn't look like much but lining everything up and getting everything in the exact location is the tough part. Everything has to be checked angles. I think I spent 2 hours just getting the rear subframe in the exact location it needed to be in.




Mounts just tacked in..










This post has been edited by czwalga: Mar 5, 2011 - 8:26 PM

i love checking the progress on this thread. great work

Very nice love the progress.

I could have had the AWD 'done' today, however I ran out of welding gas. I have the front mounts built and ready to go just tacked into place.

I have a few hours of welding to do though; all the driveshaft mounts, rear mounts, new pieces of the cage, front mounts. Once I have all that welded I'll start working on the fuel cell mounts. They require that the fuel cell has a bulkhead between it and the passenger compartment. All fuel and brake lines will be routed inside the car, as they will probably last 12 seconds if routed in the stock location.

AWD subframe tied into the cage. I'm not thrilled with how it looks, but oh well. It works.










Re-made the roof bars for more head clearance.




Start of the fuel cell bulkhead. Everything has to be sealed from the passenger compartment. Using a surge tank that's why I have two fuel pumps. The area with the tank and pumps sits about an inch lower since the pumps should be below the fuel cell.

The cell also has to be FIA FT3 approved, which basically means not cheap.




This post has been edited by czwalga: Mar 13, 2011 - 5:19 PM

Damn dude you have some skills that I wish I had or had the garage to do it in. My dd is a 03 toyota matrix if I had the time and money I want to first change it to and awd standard then maybe a 2gr lol keep up the great work on all of your cars

whats your estimate on the weight of the rollcage? it looks beefy, but heavy

The tube is ~1.5lbs a foot. I have about 120 feet of tube. So 175i'sh lbs. About 100 of those feet are required just to get log booked.

This post has been edited by czwalga: Mar 14, 2011 - 8:08 AM

My hotbits rally suspension. 40 point rebound adjustments, 30 point compression adjustment.

Only 4 times what I paid for the car haha...

Ehh ****ty pics I just snapped with my phone...

Very nice progress, i like the roll cage tie ins to the sub frame

Wow, that cage is so awesome! I cannot wait to see this thing ready to go.

Good job great !!!!

Got the fuel cell mounted in the car. Still have a little work to do on it, but it's in there.

Have a separate area for the surge tank and fuel pumps. I dont have the top of the fuel cell bolted on in the pics, also don't have the AN bulkheads installed.