Hi all.
I've been working with some helpfull friends on this swap since the CA18 that was in my car previously decided it wanted to kill its oil pump. That was back in July 07.
I use the car over here in the UK as a drift car, had some success in it, but have taken a sort of forced sabbatical whilst I collect all the parts necessary to do this fantastic engine justice.
The plan is to have an ITB'd, cam'd, high compression engine. Bit of a snarler, I like to think.
Current situation is that the engine is in the car, on some custom made mounts. The R154 is mated to the back of it, but through lack of room in the bay, we're just waiting on the hydraulic release bearing (as the clutch cylinders etc had to be removed from the bay). I'm also going to be running a pedal box, as it seemed the easiest way to solve the issues we faced.
As you can see, I don't have any manifolds yet. I'm in talks with a local company to get these created. Sadly, I'm building the car up to be the best it can be, but having to take a while due to montly budget constraints
A problem that will crop up eventually is that the sump is incredibly low. I've been thinking about dry sumping, and wondererd if anyone had any off-the-shelf solutions? I've been searching, but not turned up much (perhaps I'm wording my search wrong!)
That would be me in the background, looking special :thinkerg:
I hope to be able to fit in around here, and scour the place for the technical information to make this thing work.
Cheers
Steve
Oh, one of the car doing what it does best...
I've been working with some helpfull friends on this swap since the CA18 that was in my car previously decided it wanted to kill its oil pump. That was back in July 07.
I use the car over here in the UK as a drift car, had some success in it, but have taken a sort of forced sabbatical whilst I collect all the parts necessary to do this fantastic engine justice.
The plan is to have an ITB'd, cam'd, high compression engine. Bit of a snarler, I like to think.
Current situation is that the engine is in the car, on some custom made mounts. The R154 is mated to the back of it, but through lack of room in the bay, we're just waiting on the hydraulic release bearing (as the clutch cylinders etc had to be removed from the bay). I'm also going to be running a pedal box, as it seemed the easiest way to solve the issues we faced.
As you can see, I don't have any manifolds yet. I'm in talks with a local company to get these created. Sadly, I'm building the car up to be the best it can be, but having to take a while due to montly budget constraints
A problem that will crop up eventually is that the sump is incredibly low. I've been thinking about dry sumping, and wondererd if anyone had any off-the-shelf solutions? I've been searching, but not turned up much (perhaps I'm wording my search wrong!)
That would be me in the background, looking special :thinkerg:
I hope to be able to fit in around here, and scour the place for the technical information to make this thing work.
Cheers
Steve
Oh, one of the car doing what it does best...
