JD,
I regret no bragging about sailing. Courtesy of my officiating I spend more time in motorboats than sailing, by about a 5 to 1 ratio. Winter is my dedicated sailing season, when I sail my ice-boat. I am getting to sail my club's autumn Sunday series in my Soling, courtesy of no conflicting judging plans. The first race was mildly disappointing, coming second by 2 seconds after two hours, but cold 're-play' found more than enough mistakes to cover that 2 second loss. All else being equal, it is he who make the fewest errors who wins .... but back to car building.
After windshield work I began to tackle drive-train. I first located the engine/gearbox longitudinally, to put the shifter in the steering wheel plane - 'playing driver' was required, but absent vroom-vroom noises. I also located the drive-train axis 19mm (that's what evolved; I didn't choose that number - but I work metric or British units depending on which one lands on a gradiation on the scale.
) to the right to reduce driveshaft angle with the offset Isuzu pinion. I ended up with an estimated universal angle a little less than the recommended 3 degrees for Hooke joints.
Fortunately, the 6 speed gearbox is long, requiring the engine to move forward, which eliminated any interference issues with the exhaust flange on the stock Nissan header.
Unfortunately, the front of the engine now nearly touches a forward frame diagonal, blocking a water inlet: structural mods required!
I blocked the engine in the right location (actually higher, to allow for motor mount compression) and mocked up some Jack-style origami motor mounts, before welding them up as sub-assemblies.
More to follow ...
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Warren
Isuzu Pickup/SR20DE, +401 COLD frame
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