Robbies alpine sedan 5cyl swap

[mdlimy]

nice see you copied my angled down plates behind the tower came out good

Actually in all honesty I haven't seen your bay I don't think, and I definetly haven't seen any other bays with plates in section at an angle, I just thought it would look good and went ahead and did it, really glad I did.
Post some pics of your bay!

[Perry Wilson]

nice see you copied my angled down plates behind the tower came out good

[benyen soljax]

That engine bay is fresh...to death?

[mdlimy]

thanks dude, really looking forward to getting some work done now and finally get this car out to some shows!

[canakami]

Awesome work here. Love the 5cyl sound and have been watching this thread since the start.

[mdlimy]

[mdlimy]

Thanks guys!
Engine bay will be done in a couple days!

[RobE30]

Thinking outside the box, nice job!

[slammin.e28]

BRAVO!

So glad this is getting updated again.

[benyen soljax]

That wiring looks clean!

[mdlimy]

you guys are funny =p

You didnt miss much, ill bring you up to speed.




on saturday i cut a bunch more pvc in attempt to figure out the angles needed for the merge collector, a few hours later i started cutting stainless and it all went together, not perfect but definetly good enough.


Last night i removed the dash since i have to weld up some holes on the firewall, and today i got sidetracked by wiring...Removed atleast 50% of the wiring from the front half of the car, all useless **** i wont need(abs, airbag, cruise). Then started laying out harnesses and planning.

I removed the dash to find this....love that old deteriorated hokey tape >.>



some of what i removed


what i ended up with, havent zip tied anything in position yet because i still need to figure out where i am mounting the fuse box, but it is much less cluttered. I removed alot of the silly things like under dash lights, glove box lights etc...



Im not particularly happy with the merge angle on the collector, i doubt it would cause much of an issue with the way it performs but it makes it hard to fit the manifold, i will be making another one.

[Farbin Kaiber]

Why the giveup?

[TwoJ's]

Posting to subscribe. Don't give up on updating this thread, I'm interested in the progress.

[Chriskbmx]

this is a crazy cool build. i kinda fooled with the idea of doing a saab 2.0 16v swap. there so cheap to get an easy to build horse power out of.

[evandael]

i'm all about this swap and all the fabrication you're doing to make it work.


please post up more! :up: