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On with some of the work we've been doing recently

First is a ground up build for an R32 GTR.

As you can see from the photos the cage actually passes through the rear floor pan and into the front subframe mounts. There is some tricky work done to get the two bars welded to plates directly ontop of the subframe pins.

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Next was a baffled sump for an AE86 sprinter with an engine conversion

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Wheels tubs in a VS holden ute

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Surge tank and bosch pump for trackschools new suzuki swift lease car

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A pair of Lotus' for various subframe, suspension and cage fabrication

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R32 GTR diff and gearbox breather. This unit has 3 separated breather sections for the front diff, transfer case and hollinger. They all breather into their own tank which is linked to a common breather manifold.

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Passengers foot rest to mount up the Haltech control units. We also completed a dry sump conversion on this R34 GTR.

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Working with Ross' crank trigger kits on all our circuit GTR's has been a great success.

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And the best is always last

R32 GTR dry sump conversion.

This is the fire wall plate which uses two bulk head fittings to pass the scavenged oil and the pump return through.

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Rear fire wall we have used simple rubber grommet plates.

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Using an aviad 4 stage pump with a slightly different sump design than I normaly use.

This new setup also uses the same HTD belt to drive the power steering

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The sump design isn't as ideal as the previous one I was doing. But this one lends itself far better to the new pump bracket and plumbing. With the original sump and this bracket it's very fiddly to plumb up.

I did one last week and it took ages, each prolite hose needed an internal spring to prevent kinks and straight fittings are cheaper than 45/90deg ones. So when you can use more straights it works out cheaper to plumb up as well.

They can be good or bad actually.

I didn't strip the red one down but soole's white one I have done a couple of times.

It's not that bad anymore due to the body work changes that have been made.

You'd think the rear clam would come off easy in under 5 mins.

It takes about an hour to remove a factory fitted one.

They are a pain in the arse to cage, I've done plenty of lotus cages but everyone is different cause your battling to fit various sized drivers into them. Some can for with intrusion bars, others have no chance, roof diagonals are a nightmare they need to be made with the driver in the car and a helmet on just to sure.

  • 3 weeks later...

Some of the recent fabrication work thats been going on

Rewire of a GTR and ive fabricated this circuit breaker holder to located all the breakers in one location with a single MIL plug and and out

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Same GTR and we've done a new power steering setup that has this fabricated resiviour

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STi I caged for one of tune house's customers prior to WTAC

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Inlet manifold that has been coated by Chris At Craved coatings. We are doing a whole engine bay over haul to an R34 GTR that had a turbo drain melt and cause a rather large mess.

Braided fittings and solid boost controller lines/ turbo drains etc

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Titanium Strut brace to be fitted to the R34

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Depends what sort of brace your after.

A basic brace fabricated from plate (cheapest way to buy Ti) can start around $1400 with 1.2mm wall thickness and 3mm strut plates

A complex one done from round tube (usually plate rolled and purge welded) with gussets and master braces etc an go up to $2400.

Couple of emails about Ti braces and components.

I have access to grade 5 Ti (TI-6AI4V common 6-8% alluminium alloyed Ti)

The supplier I have is also an employee that sub contracts to me so I won't be abusing his generosity and selling raw material, more than happy to quote on fabricated parts though.

Got heaps on at the moment outside of work so I'm not around late, I'm only in the next suburb so your welcome to pick them up anytime at night.

Just give me a call tomorrow and organize something (I won't answer so leave a voicemail and I'll return the call)

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