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1. For Sale: The First V8 Swapped Porsche In The World

Tuesday, 08 December 2015 Content / engineswapdepot.com / For Sale: The First V8 Swapped Porsche In The World

For Sale: The First V8 Swapped Porsche In The World | What you are looking at is a piece of engine swap history as the very first Porsche to be powered by a V8 engine. In less than a week it will be sold and find its way into one lucky owner’s ...
... replaced with Lexan. Front glass has safety tabs. -WING The wing is aluminum and has some angle of attack adjustment to better suit each track. The whaletail is non adjustable but equally as important to keeping this car planted firmly. ...

2. Project 510: Short Shifting

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

... onto modifying the shifter. This is where it started to get interesting, and maths (not my strong suite) came into the equation. 50mm was the magic number. That referred to the distance from the center point of the pivot ball to the bottom ...
... the quintessential sparks. The bottom of the shifter after it’s haircut. The angle grinder was also taken to the bottom of a sacrificial 71B shifter, but the piece cut 10mm longer. When you offer it up to my shifter, we get the magical ...

3. Project Honda City Turbo II – Exhaust, interior, FINITO!

Sunday, 26 April 2015 Content / build-threads.com / Project Honda City Turbo II – Exhaust, interior, FINITO!

... in the middle is the bit that moves up when the coolant is hot and seals against the inside of the black donut shaped piece. It’s closed in this pic. It was easy to mimic a closed choke by sealing it at idle with a finger. That’s ...
... dyed black now. We’re sorting out some black pinch weld to go around the rest of it. Our seats are really letting the interior down now. We’ve got a couple of black covers to throw over them but if anyone sees anything suitable for ...

4. Ferrari F40 LM Restoration Part 5

Saturday, 03 January 2015 Content / build-threads.com / Ferrari F40 LM Restoration Part 5

... only left hand ones at the Factory, no pairs, but thanks to Lee and this Forum, (conveniently in Australia!), we now have a set and thus will be suitably attired for the Ball. Headlight lenses being fitted for size. Car back in ...
... so as to seal against air leaks when we finally have to pull the vacuum for the CF curing. Forgive me all those who understand this process, but by way of explanation, this is a four piece mould with generous flanges which add strength ...

5. Ferrari F40 LM Restoration Part 4

Friday, 07 November 2014 Content / build-threads.com / Ferrari F40 LM Restoration Part 4

... will stay for now and testing but will hopefully be replaced by something more suitable for controlled track day use when and if I can find it. Still seems difficult to find a suitable exhaust with a dual purpose, open for open track days and ...
... albeit temporarily. Meanwhile, back at the workbench work, the last piece of metalwork is in manufacture, the old one being simply unfit for purpose. Any ideas? Made it too easy. Checking ...

6. Ferrari F40 LM Restoration Part 3

Friday, 29 August 2014 Content / build-threads.com / Ferrari F40 LM Restoration Part 3

... periods where the painter has to “ watch the paint dry” he can’t drop onto another job because he is suited and booted and has to keep clean, in the meantime the compressor and spray booth are running flat out burning up resources. Nasty chemicals ...
... Crosthwaites. The original and unavailable Ferrari part is actually composed of two separate elements whereas our new version has somehow been crafted from one, a really trick piece of engineering. Now we understand how they could build an Auto ...

7. EG Civic / S15 Silvia – Intro + Teardown

Monday, 25 August 2014 Content / build-threads.com / EG Civic / S15 Silvia – Intro + Teardown

... one piece. We also needed the compete rear end, again in one section makes it easier to see how crazy we really are. One of the most time consuming jobs was to remove the compete wiring loom in the S chassis, the civic will run complete S15 ...
... it. First we needed a car, Luckily there was an EG civic in Canary yellow sitting in our garage that was used as a suitcase/surfboard rack amongst other things. Meet “big yella” a 1992 Honda Civic Breeze, This bad boy has a 1.3L carby ...

8. Ferrari F40 LM Restoration

Tuesday, 06 August 2013 Content / build-threads.com / Ferrari F40 LM Restoration

... shipment from Michelotto. He has nothing on the shelf so all our suspension has been fabricated especially for us and referenced like a tailor made suit. Beautiful and more detailed images to follow, but here is the front LM unit against another ...
... the car is with a new owner, anyone who was totally hung up on originality can always revert to the cells, should they still be available. Always amazed at the skill of someone taking a flat piece of metal and teasing it and cajoling it into ...

9. Project 510: FMIC + more (pt 4)

Wednesday, 20 March 2013 Content / build-threads.com / Project 510: FMIC + more (pt 4)

... during it’s life, and it was making it hard for me to find a suitable top radiator hose. I ended up sourcing a standard one, then I cleaned the mating surface on my custom mill (block of wood and some sandpaper) and made a new gasket. ...
... form of black paint was the fuel rail. I painted this in a metalic grey colour called ‘cast alloy’. Satin black was the colour choice for the throttle body. Throttle body pieces all cleaned up, including the butterfly. You can ...

10. Project 510: FMIC + more (pt 2)

Monday, 18 March 2013 Content / build-threads.com / Project 510: FMIC + more (pt 2)

... the fuel rail and the fuel pressure regulator. I don’t have any pictures of these until later in the piece but they were sourced the same way I bought the manifold, through the always-helpful members of the FJ20 Facebook page. Still on ...
Project 510: FMIC + more (pt 2) | When we left off from the last update, I had successfully relocated the alternator and had the crank pulley machined down to one single groove, with a smaller belt fitted to suit. I was now ready to get back ...