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BigT's 65ish Anglebox Racer Insanity


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Righto, 1st time poster, long time browser.

Gotta say i love reading all the projects and shit on here, gives me loads of inspiration and enthusiasm for cracking on with me own loss of coin and sanity.

I've always liked my small British Fords, but I've always had a soft spot for the old Anglebox, I've had a few over the years in various states, my first car was a lovely crimson one with a 1600 xflow, 13x7 hotwires, custom suspension..... And NO floor lol.

About a year ago I decided I needed a toy to play with and that toy needed to be another Anglia. I squized around on the usual sites and found any that were avaliable were pretty pricey. Step in MADBUZ who hooked me up with a chap in Wellys who had an oldie with a 1500 pre xflow, the rest standard but with dead plates and plenty of rust, but for 2hundie who can complain.

When i got to yard collect and had a quick look over it was in better condition structurally than I thought which was a bonus.

Got home and unloaded into garage then proceeded to stare at my new procurement for the rest of the arvo.

I decided i wanted to either A: make a road going track day car, or B: make a dedicated race toy for trackdays and autox/gymkhana.

I wanted V6 front engine rwd setup... initially lol.

I had at that time wrecked our Mitsi Diamante family wagon coz I couldn't sell it, so I had a good 6G72 engine sitting on floor of garage, queue research time... Rwd 6G72 gona be a pain in the arse, involves custom bellhousings etc.

Then my brain decided it wanted to REALLY throw a spanner in the works and completely change the whole project. The car had at this stage been stripped down to the shell and found floors were mint, minor structural rust but doors, boot and bonnet stuffed. My brain got out the sawsall and cut out the rear floor in readiness for rear mounting the 6G72 and fwd tiptronic box... WTF. Dedicated racer, aint never gettin this nutbox on the road lol. I thought yeah why not the mitsi box, will be easier to hook up in rear engined format, as no linkages involved, just switches etc and fwd/rwd cable, with mk2 Escort front end and steering.... but coz im an indecisive knob i shelved that idea too.

Now im going EJ20/5T as rear mounting that has been done plenty of times before, its relatively easy to turn 4wd box into a transaxle, nice short engine, plenty of power, loads of aftermarket support and cheap.

Right, I've got about as far as I can go without a donor Subie so will start saving and post pics of what I've got etc, and will keep you posted of my sanity going out the window..... cant wait to take it for a spin woho.

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Pic time...

 

When I organised to buy the car from seller, he mentioned that the NZ Rodder magazine was doing a write up about the various vehicles and lock up of his, so off to shop and brought magazine....my new toys famous lol.

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Im such a retard, dont know what Im doing with pics llooooolllz.

Pic of arse removed from car and me gantry i made, had to make it height adjustable as wanted to be able to have both in garage and out in drive when unloading heavy shit, but doorway pretty low. Didnt cost me a bean and slammed together after work one night.

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6G72TT engine I picked up for $150 out of car and not going, told it had a bit of blow by in one cylinder, took to work and stripped down...found a bent rod and damaged piston, tis alright, bore should come up alright with a hone amd can get new piston and 2nd hand conrod for $80, not that im using that shit anymore.2jfm1c2y.yad.jpg

Coupla pics of Subie transaxle conversion stuff. Rear plate to close off rear unused part of trans.
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Adapter connects mainshaft of box to shaft that goes through it back to front diff, negates rear output and puts 100% of torque through to front diff.
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Rear engined EJ20T open wheeler.
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  • 1 year later...

Right...HAI, Ive been away for a while, but Ive managed to sort some shit out for my nuts project.

Due to moving and being down a shared driveway has ment no internet at home :doubt:

In the last year or so I had a plan to stick to, and havent realy deviated from what I want to do, I still want to fit the EJ20T in the rear of the ANGRIA, I was going to go with the whole Escort front end install, even scored a whole unit for cheap, but have decided to go another way. I scored an EJ20T for free, needed rebuild but was good for mocking up. Then I got meself a new job-workshop manager, and the last 9-10 months have been 60hr weeks and any spare time spent with the kidlets.

But fortunes have changed slightly in the last month, and have freed up time and money, therefore I brought myself a complete, de-rego'd WRX wagon with panel damage from Turners damaged car auctions $500, a set of Adjusty coilovers fo r$100, a twin plate clutch and lightened flywheel $200, and a whole bunch of steel $250

I have decided to (at work) remove box and engine from wagon, flip over and remove steering, suspension etc, make up a jig to pickup all the sterring and suspension mounting points, then build a chassis around this, incorporating the subaru engine and box in the back in a custom crossmember/suspension setup, and plonk the body on top. Im thinking full fibreglass flip front front end widebody panels, and the same for the rear panels, each rear guard will have the intercooler or oil coller in the front openings, perspecs windows with clear vents to feed air to engine, aswell as a low/wide scoop on roof doing the same. Want to run 15" wheels as any bigger would look funny on such a small car, will upgrade to subi STI 4 pots which im told will fit 15" wheels.

I will load some pics shortly.

ALSO....Just typical, I have got all the stuff I need to get hard into the project, which all turned up at the end of JAN, and am SO excited to finaly really get into it, But...I had shoulder surgery the 1st week of FEB and wont be able to actually do any spannering for about 4-6 months, which F**KIN SUCKS. So I can just sit here on my couch while on ACC and work out a step by step plan.

Hopefully update again soon:geek:CHUR

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  • 4 months later...

Donor car, radiator bent but engine fine, almost every panel bent and tailgate window smashed, not pretty, won't be able to sell much in the way of panels, oh well, full running gear for 5 hundie.... can't really complain. Will be able to fully get into the project in the next few weeks, yippee.

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Set of cusco adjusties, with adjustable top hats, will be rebuilt, useable as they are but will need to sort spring rates and damping now engine to go in back, so may aswell spend the coin and get right and refurb. An even hundie...cheap-just how I like it.

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No shit people... I've finally started the project proper now, an hour after work on Wednesday and an couple of hours on Saturday after work got a bit done, engine box and front suspension and subframe all out. Next is to get the rear suspension and subframe out, and make up the suspension/subframes pickup points jigs, then the fun begins.

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  • 3 months later...

Got motivated tonight and went out to garage, Sat engine and trans in rough position and placed guard back on to see where shit will end up and if it is a feasable(spelling?)concept. My biggest worry was where the axles would be in relation to the centre of the wheel arch, as you can see it's only slightly offset from the centre line. I also wanted to see how long the trans was going to stick out the back, which it doesn't, will be well forward of the rear panel. Next will be to bring the rear subframe and suspension in and sit in the engine/boxes place and work out how far the hubs will hang out, and this will allow me to work out how far to box/flare guard. *** insert cheesy grin here ***

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  • 2 weeks later...

No pics(coz cabbage), but got rear subframe under the car on the weekend, looks like I will fab up some trailing arms in tube which will angle ever so slightly further inwards and pick up on the standard Anglia rear spring forward anchor points, which is nice, it's all not that much wider either which is surprising, I'm thinking I might just split car down the middle and put a 4 inch strip all the way thru, which will allow me to fit betterer and means I don't have to box out all the guards, which I don't mind the look of, but would prefer not to.  Have a nice day, Chur

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