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No where near final but my goal was to have it driving by end of holidays so it's close, of course I diddnt compromise on the quality unless I know I have to buy parts to do it, generally it's just small things that will improve, those will come later 

Some more bits 

It's now all done and working except for tach, will now just need oil for diff and gearbox, have put water in but needs a flush as heater core is full of rust, no coolant corroded everything, just a couple of things and it will drive!

Did some more tidying up of wiring 

Altenator works now, I've now got all the dash functions I need, should get some 100amp fuses for battery though as the loom never had them ?? Would explain the altenator 

Changed out the cluster to the one from the old van so I've gained a tach, 100,000 less kms and 20 km/h more top speed ..haha, mucked around with the wiring, I'm not so good at it but I guess simple 80s wirings not too bad... looks better nice labelling still managed to get a wire  wrong though :/ blew up my alternator somewhere along the way, so I got a spare nissan skyline one and swapped the center out to the silvia housing (housings are different) 

https://youtu.be/_WJal9454qU

1st start video, no exhaust 

Also 1st video I've put on youtube haha

Some oddities of this van, I'll leave the camper history on it, I might turn this into a camper, not sure yet... 

bad angle but you get how it sits, its tilted forward at the bottom, maybe good for airflow... I dont know shouldn't matter too much 

A bit of height difference here in the vans, as shown by the radiator.which used to sit in hereso made some brackets that had just enough space behind the crossmember and suspension beam, as well as intercooler mounts...

That's some more stuff out the way

Another vantatstic day hah, got a lot done.

Had to move this guy a bit as my intake just missed it but when the throttle cable bracket went on it reminded me that space is not my friend here.  No worries though as the radiator hose diddnt like the angle it was on either, so moving the water neck made better space for both.

I was planning on getting the intake installed today, but the van had other plans... when I installed my starter I realised I hadn't accounted for the space it took up... space my intake was occupying, well- a relocation of the idle circuit, pressure test, and it's good to go, I hope so anyway!

Went out to the donor van to look for some fasteners for my clutch line, discovered it has plenty more to give so I harvested them and installed them on my new van, nice and secure all the way to the slave cylinder 

The state of it, I'll be glad when I can stop mowing around these things,- holdens waiting for a driveshaft after my foot slipped on the clutch.., Van's just slowly losing parts  

Today put the fuel tank back in, mostly installed the clutch line and mounted it with rubber bits, quite boring work but takes time.

While I was mucking around with the fuel system, I noticed that the sr20 fuel rail inlet line was bigger than the line coming from the tank, sure enough I had to upgrade it to 5/16 as silvia lines are, no idea why it worked fine before but I decided to at least upgrade the pump line, the return should be fine with less volume...

I found an old rb25det fuel rail in my pile of hoardings from years ago,  and cut the line off that.

Flared the end and welded it in the appropriate location, and brought some r9 fuel injection hose from supercheap, to replace the puny hard line. The in-tank line will be r10 rated submersible hose. Dont mind my rough bending I had to make another one later on and it came out better as per last pic lol

Having done the pedal assembly, I now swapped over the 3 hole resiviour... having a donor car sure pays off 

not surprised actually 

Remembering how hard it was to remove the pedal assembly from the old van (an axe was used, amongst other things) I opted to splice the hydraulic clutch bracket and pedal into the new van, drilled out spot welds, cleaned it, tig welded in place with regular cooling. 

Then painted and assembled it all together, as good as factory I'd say, also found an interesting item behind the dash hahaha. it will join the other 10$ in change and Condom wrapper I've found so far 

The clutch hard line will be connected in the middle by where it will enter the engine bay for ease of installation, all parts(of course) salvaged from the donor van, and yes I paint/grease/service all parts before installation, the clutch bolts got loctite and slave painted black as it was a bit rusty . 

Started the final push to get the van running, only a couple of hours today in between looking after little one and that, I pulled gearbox and did the final clutch install/ torqued and the mounting of gearbox and driveshaft, and figuring out the clutch line and master cylinder, which .... of course .... my new van doesn't have.

So I made a hard line up, from lines in the donor van, really not that hard . The master however will need some attention, not sure if I'll put the whole unit into the new van, or weld it onto the old, we will see tomorrow merry Christmas !