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Sooo I've always tried to have a dedicated skid car to stop me doing silly things in my good cars. It's been about two years since I sold my rb25de r32 drift hack and the pressure has gotten to me....

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I've been keeping my eye out for a while and purchased this off a mate for a good deal

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It's a rolling body, deregistered. Has damaged right rear quarter panel and a few bits of rust to sort....

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My previous lancer skid car was ruff as guts and running a sohc 8v 4g63 motor. It would crank 5th gear burnouts and won me a little bit of prize money over the years.  

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This time i would like some more power, style and build it to drift rather than burnouts.

So with more power in mind I bought a gsr 1800 sohc turbo 4g93t long block off a mate that already had forged pistons and rods

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And along the lines of better style I've had this boot wing in my shed for some time now, also was gifted these flares from bigfoot. The flares are from a mini apparently so not quite right but I'll modify to suit the body better.

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Did some measurements today which are hopefully accurate. Rear diff is 1400mm wide, front suspension hub to hub is about 1400mm wide too and wheel base is 2450mm long. Was abit hard by myself to be accurate.  

Google searched what a nissan s13 is which resulted 1465mm front and rear width and 2475mm wheel base. Reason behind comparison is s13 is a popular drift chassis due to wheel base. Also I'm contemplating using an r31 skyline rear end (1465mm wide) and s13 front crossmember, suspension etc for better options of coilover and brakes and proven steering modifications to achieve more lock.

Jacked it up on axle stands and found some interesting rust, someone had bogged and undersealed the chassis rails which has resulted in them being very rusty.....

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Removed the rear springs and tried on my heart wheels for some inspiration also

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So this long weekend I managed to make some progress. 

Stripped out all the front suspension and steering components 

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Then made some measurements and comparisons between the lancer crossmember and an s13 Silvia one. Yeah I got some sweet art work

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Then the cutting and welding begun. The Nissan crossmember had already had the rack mounts shifted forward but it's not the prettiest job. The mounts I made are abit ruff atm but they work for test fitting everything plan is to get an rb crossmember and do same mods but nicer for better engine mount position. 

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Did a pick a part mishion for some c34 laurel front knuckles and steering rack. One mate donated some s14 lower arms, and scotty d drift donated some Silvia shocks and springs. Absolute GCs. 

Chucked it all in for a test fit

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Left the lancer castor rod in and I think I'll leave it in if theres enough clearance once this has some added steering lock. Also removed the sway bar because dont need one for drifting apparently 

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Next on the Nissan-mitsi inter breeding schedule was the rear end, have decided to go with a Borg warner diff from a r31 skyline.

The right width to match the front end, 3.89 ratio, 4x114.3 and disck brakes. So just requires a welded diff centre and some mounts to match the lancer arms.

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Stripped the mounts off the diff already. Did some measurements and will make the lower arm mount lower at the diff end and higher at the body end. Same with the top arm but chassis rail will be in the way so will be abit difficult 

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Will make the car squat properly which is what were after. Wont be mounting spring mounts as will be converting to a coil over setup.

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It's been a minute..... 

Here's some progress I guess ?

Ditched the borg Warner diff idea when I had a mind explosion. Now has a s14 rear end I'm trying to modify into it.

The surgery started with small cuts and ended up at this current state...

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definitely in the deep end over my head but all decisions have happened slowly with plenty of good advice from mates that are experienced in this field of torture. 

S14 subframe was purchased for one 18 box of 7p Cody's, no covid or rfb tax to be seen

Obviously next step is to make a new rear chassis to accept Nissan plague into the lancer. This is a huge step and learning curve for me so may be awhile before another update 

Also a sweet handbrake I scored cheap 

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And a sweet meme that suits this car

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With aunty Cindy giving us another holiday and my son being at his mothers this week I had some time up my sleeve,  so finally getting into the job of fitting the s15 dash to the lancer

 

Job started with a windscreen removal and a better look at the rust I need to fix, yay!

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there was silicon everywhere around the windscreen so plenty of surface rust was encouraged, gotta love home mechanics 

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Simple fix is to trim a channel for the steering column, made a very good difference and I'm quite happy at that height. Next step will be to make mounts and maybe fit the centre consol too. 

I do plan on  putting a roll cage in this car so will get more trimming once that is done

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Pulled the gearbox out of my other car and will use it for this car behind the 4g63t  until I can afford something better like maybe a r154.

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I've had this gearbox since I was 15 (now 27) so it's had a fair amount of abuse and has started a crunch into 3rd gear but it still works so I'll keep sending it. But decided it at the very minimum deserves a good clean after its years of good behavior 

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That was after the first waterblast and oven cleaner soak, gave It one more soak with oven cleaner and it came out better.  Will give it some more another day just because now I'm eager to get it as clean as possible 

Note there was no scrubbing just waterblaster and oven cleaner. 

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