My New 70 Aka The Black Pearl

[rb20 rolla]

I'd say more than likely r32 more commonly found maybe mate i'm unsure all i know is it fits into the k series crossmember on rb20 engine mounts

 

 

i can tell you that r32 rb20 mounts will slide into a 4k crossmember you just have to grind the little locating tabs on the rb20 one and then

grind the crossmember one a bit so the two mounts sit flush.

 

i am still using the 4k crossmember mounts just cut down an welded to 6mm flat plate with the rb20..

 

as for the ca18 motor swap i can NOT confirm this but i was on a skyline forum a few months back and a guy had a pintara with a ca a he said his mate

had a corolla with a ca18 and it went straight in with r32 rb20 mounts but please don't take this a fact as it might not be true...

[Undertaker_is_the_best]

good to see you got the heart of the project bro i was told by jp well done and for the price even thou you got to rebuild it

u should take the head to get done to the same place i did and get a quote

well worth the end result he is in archer field so yea

[SLW42]

Yeah cool man thats a usefull piece of information i'll keep in mind if i get told i can't use the silvia crossmember, wicked yeah i've been told with the silvia crossmember the ca sits higher in the car, but i don't know about sitting it in the k crossmember i've been told it sits lower, but if you look at my car i want the motor a little higher in the car, cause the car sits less than 3 quarters the height of nokia 6300, at the crossmember from flat ground

[SLW42]

good to see you got the heart of the project bro i was told by jp well done and for the price even thou you got to rebuild it

u should take the head to get done to the same place i did and get a quote

well worth the end result he is in archer field so yea

yeah cheers man yeah maybe i'll see how bad the head is but it's fine at the moment, i'm just chasing other little things before i go ripping it apart, like the vrs kit and all the rest of the bolts and bits i'm missing and it'll be done :lol:

[rb20 rolla]

Yeah cool man thats a usefull piece of information i'll keep in mind if i get told i can't use the silvia crossmember, wicked yeah i've been told with the silvia crossmember the ca sits higher in the car, but i don't know about sitting it in the k crossmember i've been told it sits lower, but if you look at my car i want the motor a little higher in the car, cause the car sits less than 3 quarters the height of nokia 6300, at the crossmember from flat ground

 

 

i don't know about qld but in nsw you just need 100mm ground clearance to the lowest part of the car to the ground.

 

if your phone don't fit then a coke can test is out but if you have adjustable coilovers you should be able to get the hight you need..

 

and i like the crossmember conversion you have done, i want to put power steering on my car and i was looking on google for info on the s13 and found a

web forum in spain an a guy used a r33 rack an he said it is shorter in the knukle an did not have to cut the colum down but had no pic's an there was a

 

reply from a guy who asked the question about the colum and he got no answer so don't no if it's true...

[Undertaker_is_the_best]

yeah cheers man yeah maybe i'll see how bad the head is but it's fine at the moment, i'm just chasing other little things before i go ripping it apart, like the vrs kit and all the rest of the bolts and bits i'm missing and it'll be done :lol:

 

yea bud the place is only needed if the head needs doing but if not then u will be a least a few hundred dollars richer for other things lol

[SLW42]

i don't know about qld but in nsw you just need 100mm ground clearance to the lowest part of the car to the ground.

 

if your phone don't fit then a coke can test is out but if you have adjustable coilovers you should be able to get the hight you need..

 

and i like the crossmember conversion you have done, i want to put power steering on my car and i was looking on google for info on the s13 and found a

web forum in spain an a guy used a r33 rack an he said it is shorter in the knukle an did not have to cut the colum down but had no pic's an there was a

 

reply from a guy who asked the question about the colum and he got no answer so don't no if it's true...

yeah i've read a thread like it that he used a 33 colomn and i think steering rack, but look into a s13 crossmember and, get some s13 front gear for yours, like coilovers, brakes, lca's and if you would like man i'll take some pics of the colomn for you so you can see how it works together and you will have power steering :lol:, yeah i have coilovers in the front of my car and i have to wind them up alot to get it to sit above the 100mm that the police have set for our qld roads haha, AND CHRIS yeah i'm kinda hoping that the head doesn't need anything done to it aye

[redae71]

Yeah cheers man it was only the motor and those extra bits i got for 150, i'm still missing alot of things though, i had a turbo for it already, well that makes life alot easier knowing that thicker headgaskets make it gay off boost, yeah it's not going into the car till it's had a full service done, all gaskets and oil filter, you by the off chance wouldn't have a set of stock ca steel engine mounts would you bud? Oh i will have a couple more questions here and there along the build for you too bud, so far the ca conversion has cost me - 150 for crossmember and steering rack, lca's, 150 for coilovers and hubs/brakes, 150 for the engine and little bits, and 100 bucks for the stock manual harness so i think it's going alright for a cheapish build, :wink: i can see the actuall wiring, fuel system and tuning being the most expensive part about it though oh and the blue plate/plates for roady but i think it's going alright so far

no worries, i am goin microtech soon so if you want the stock computer (new daughterboard fitted, can be tuned) and AFM let me no and we can work something out

[SLW42]

Yeah i will grab the comp off you one day soon hopefully before i've run outta work haha, afm i've organised one for 40 bucks so what do ya want for the comp?

[rb20 rolla]

yeah i've read a thread like it that he used a 33 colomn and i think steering rack, but look into a s13 crossmember and, get some s13 front gear for yours, like coilovers, brakes, lca's and if you would like man i'll take some pics of the colomn for you so you can see how it works together and you will have power steering :wink:, yeah i have coilovers in the front of my car and i have to wind them up alot to get it to sit above the 100mm that the police have set for our qld roads haha, AND CHRIS yeah i'm kinda hoping that the head doesn't need anything done to it aye

 

 

thank's that would be nice, i just have one question will the standard rolla strut's go in to the s13 xmember i think the rolla has a 12mm hole and the

 

s13 is 14mm from what i read as i want to keep the wheel track the same as it is now and i already have a good set of coilover's.

 

i just can't work weather the s13 x member is wider than the rolla one wear the lac's bolt up thank's...

[SLW42]

thank's that would be nice, i just have one question will the standard rolla strut's go in to the s13 xmember i think the rolla has a 12mm hole and the

 

s13 is 14mm from what i read as i want to keep the wheel track the same as it is now and i already have a good set of coilover's.

 

i just can't work weather the s13 x member is wider than the rolla one wear the lac's bolt up thank's...

 

yeah man i'm pretty sure the lca's will go straight into silvia crossmember, umm i'm pretty sure they sit bassically in the same place after you elongate two holes on the crossmember, from memory it was as your standing facing the front of the car drivers side fornt bolt hole needed adjusting, and passengers rear hole needed adjusting, other than that everything else fit perfectly :wink:

 

here are afew pics of my steering colomn bud

 

this is the colomn joined with the silvia/rolla hybrid steering uni joints, i still need to take a bit off the colomn though,

 

with this picture the steering knuckles on the left is the silvia one, and the one on the right is the rolla one,

 

this is how it looks once it's finished with the silvia and rolla bits joined out of the car

[redae71]

Yeah i will grab the comp off you one day soon hopefully before i've run outta work haha, afm i've organised one for 40 bucks so what do ya want for the comp?

prob 200, then all you need to do is find a tuner that can do nisedit or if your in brisbane i can get my mate who fitted the daughterboard to tune it for you, he has years of dyno experience, just started up his business called profile autosports, uses CMR's dyno to tune on

[SLW42]

Yeah i'm in bris on the southside, whats the computer tuned for?

[rb20 rolla]

wow i couldn't of asked for better pic's thank you so much now i can see where you have to cut down the colum

 

when it's cut down you wouldn't even know, i thought that when people were saying cut 20mm off the end, that you would only have

 

a little bit of spline left on the colum and that look's fine to me.

 

when the tip is machined down i don't think anyone would know as the spline still travels all the way through the knuckle.

 

i am going to ring my engineer next week and ask about doing the conversion so thanks heap's mate..

[SLW42]

Yeah thats cool man anything else you would like to see pics of?, that photo of the colomn in the knuckles needs to still have a bit taken off it as it only just misses the uni joint,