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1. Toyota 86 with a VR38DETT

Thursday, 14 July 2016 Content / engineswapdepot.com / Toyota 86 with a VR38DETT

... built with the HKS 4.1 L stroker kit by JHH Engineering. A new block had to be sourced from Nissan because these engines come with plasma-sprayed cylinder liner bores. This means the engine can not be honed or machined internally. The goal for ...
... built with the HKS 4.1 L stroker kit by JHH Engineering. A new block had to be sourced from Nissan because these engines come with plasma-sprayed cylinder liner bores. This means the engine can not be honed or machined internally. The goal for ...

2. Project 510: Short Shifting

Friday, 10 July 2015 Content / build-threads.com / Project 510: Short Shifting

... obliged. It took us a few months of back-and-forth messages, but we finally settled on a date one early Sunday morning, and after 1.5hrs of driving, I arrived at my destination. The plan was to fit a 10mm CNC machined spacer plate to the top ...
... Nissan shifters, and return to the shape, length and thread pitch of the older and thinner Datsun L-series shifters. Lachlan said this would be no problem, to which I was overjoyed to hear, and he could use a longer doner which means I wouldn’t ...

3. hot rods and warbirds

Sunday, 21 June 2015 Content / lowtechblog.blogspot.com / hot rods and warbirds

... raceway and runway. It's held at the airport of Prangins, a small village half an hour away from Geneva, Switzerland, providing for a laid-back backdrop to machines once built to dominate both air and asphalt. The Cheaters from Geneva showed ...
... with some vintage aircraft action going on! Vince and his family drove all the way from the Valais. And not just for the Apéro. Laurent seems happy for a reason. The setting sun means the golden hour is approaching quickly. What a great ...

4. The Devil Has a Change of Heart

Monday, 01 June 2015 Content / engineswapdepot.com / The Devil Has a Change of Heart

... though the owner loves the final outcome it doesn’t mean it was an easy path. Several times throughout the build the owner was frustrated enough to consider selling it. A big motivating factor to finish came when a collector with three ...
... it. He doesn’t care about what happened to the original engine or why it was changed. All he cares about is seeing this rare car up close and hearing it roar. Why is this important? Because this boy sees the car for what it is, a beautiful machine ...

5. Project Honda City Turbo II – Teardown

Monday, 21 July 2014 Content / build-threads.com / Project Honda City Turbo II – Teardown

... the City. It’s a relatively common mod (meaning 4 or 5 guys have done it, which is a lot in City circles) but it’s a bit of a hack job. Eventually we concluded that rebuilding the turbo we had would probably work out best since a ...
... were the same, even the banjo bolt thread was the same, so we dismantled both on the spot. The new one is actually an RHB52 so the turbine and comp wheels are slightly larger than standard. Our old exhaust housing will fit with some machine ...

6. Mercedes V8 Unimog

Sunday, 02 March 2014 Content / build-threads.com / Mercedes V8 Unimog

... word for machine or device. The more you know, hey? This Anyone else wondering what a Unimog is? If you are, like I was, I’ll do the Wiki-ing for you… The name Unimog is pronounced [ˈuːnɪmɔk] in German and is an acronym for the German“UNIversal-MOtor-Gerät”, ...
... Gerät being the German word for machine or device. The more you know, hey? This Mercedes Unimog (we can pretend we knew what that meant all along now) was bought sight unseen, with what turned out to be a blown motor. The owner sees to break ...

7. 4-Rotor Volvo 142

Friday, 12 July 2013 Content / build-threads.com / 4-Rotor Volvo 142

... Volvo 142 that has received a hand built custom chassis beneath a gutted floor pan, with a minor engine upgrade to go with it. Wait, did I say ‘minor’? I meant to say ‘completely custom designed and machined quad-rotor 26B’. ...
... Volvo 142 that has received a hand built custom chassis beneath a gutted floor pan, with a minor engine upgrade to go with it. Wait, did I say ‘minor’? I meant to say ‘completely custom designed and machined quad-rotor 26B’. ...

8. Project 510: FMIC + more (pt 1)

Sunday, 17 March 2013 Content / build-threads.com / Project 510: FMIC + more (pt 1)

... I decided my only choice was to mount the alternator 20mm rearwards so the belt would use the groove on the crank pulley which is closest to the engine, and then have the other groove machined off. After removing the alternator I inspected ...
... the manifold. One thing that jumped out immediately was that large looped hose you can see under the thermostat towards the lower center of the image. A bit of research told me that this was originally meant to be a coolant circuit that ran ...

9. Top 10 builds of 2012

Tuesday, 01 January 2013 Content / build-threads.com / Top 10 builds of 2012

... out the top 10, as voted by you, and by vote I mean you clicked on it. I hope you all had a great 2012 and I may the best of luck come to you in 2013. I don’t really have any grand plans for the site this year (as usual) so I can’t make any ...
... third spot belonged to the Teenage Dirtbag – NA MX5, a build undertaken by someone I’ll gladly call a build thread expert, Bruce (a.k.a. Mystery Machine) who coincidentally is the man behind Area 52, as seen a few spots back in number 7. 2. ...

10. LS3 Powered Mitsubishi Van Called the FARGO

Friday, 03 February 2012 Content / engineswapdepot.com / LS3 Powered Mitsubishi Van Called the FARGO

LS3 Powered Mitsubishi Van Called the FARGO | Here we have a 1983 Mitsubishi van which has been modified into one mean truck. The power comes from a swapped LS3 motor sitting in the back with the automatic 6L80E transmission pointing toward ...
... have to meet all 2012 engineering requirements of a new vehicle. This means putting it through a series of tests costing around $5,000. Another advantage besides getting to drive this machine down the street is the owner will get to officially ...