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Is a straight bolt on. No spacers or machining. I used ms85 hubs and stubs, i assume the same as ms 65?

Still fits a factory 14" rim over them too

Re brake upgrade. 504? Peugeot discs and hulux 4pots bolt on. 20mm vented disc. Downside was because the peugeot is so obscure the discs were hard to get. @sheepers gave me the name of some parts store in aussie that had DBA cast a whole lot mainly for crown conversions, cant recall the name sorry

Not guna lie. Im intrigued and confused all at the same time Harry. Whats the go with the cut up head and valve opener bracket thing yourve made?

Old 2m's aren't really worth much. I've paid $100 for several of them , maybe if it's complete and running, gear box changes gear nice I'd stretch to $500 for the lot. Brought several old crowns and they've all come "spare" m, 2m ,4m engines thrown in just so people can get rid of them I'd say

Covers look spectacular! I'm sure you've considered it bit have you got some sort of baffle on the bottom of the cover under the breather hole like the factory one had? I only ask because I never put mine back in after cleaning them up and sucked the better part of a litre of oil out the little breather hole into the inlet before I realized what I'd done, don't spose it'd matter if it went into a catch can tho Cant wait to see this thing running Chur

Pretty much the same conclusion I came to. Here's a pic showing how close the exhaust ports are to the steering box with a V engine fitted. Think it's only a 60degree V so pretty narrow too

Have put a 1gzfe in ms55 and doesn't fit very well. Not saying it can't be done but hits steering box and drag link arm. Also about your chassis numbers for some unknown reason on all my old crowns the number on the chassis rail and body doesn't match.not much help bit seems to be the way they are

Was just looking through your build thread and happened across a post where yourd installed a kenwood bluetooth amp . Looks exactly like what I'm after. I know the model number bit doesn't appear to be readily available in nz. Mind sharing where you got it from. It is listed on Amazon australia for about $700 kiwi delivered

Hah. Yea that's the guy

Side sharn. Used to car pool with a chap with a gtir in the early/mid 2000s from whakatane out to kawerau every day. About 60km round trip and old mate thought he was a race car driver. Pretty sure he pissed off everyone else on the road. Did go well to be fair. Think it ended up getting Tboned at the Tauranga turn off. @vintage grumble may remember him. Replaced it with a s14 silvia

Hadn't really done much with this. Mostly because it was just rubbish to drive. Bit the bullet and got stuck into doing an engine transplant. Brought a well used ms123 crown for the running gear. Gave the engine a paint job rebuild and proceeded to fit it into the coupe. For the most part it bolted in. Had to modify the crossmember and make a new driveshaft as the transmissions are a different length. Lots of small things need modifying as the coupes engine bay is about 100mm narrower and a 100mm shorter then the doner crown. Biggest battle was getting the wiring loom intergrated into the existing car loom, definitely not one of my strong points but muddled my way through. Replaced the steering box with a new one I got off yahoo,so stoked, made all the difference to the feel of how it drives. Happy days

I know of 6 in nz with a couple others that have been cut up for parts

Can't wait to see some more progress on this. Love this model crown! Any photos of your other coupes and sedan? Keep up the good work