To cut a long story short I dropped the car and engine off with a well respected garage back in April/May time as they gave me a very reasonable quote for fitting.
For whatever reason over 2 months later very little progress had happened and it was agreed the car would be returned to me to fit myself.
The list of reasons I had for the engine not fitting were as follows.
-Inlet manifold fouls the brake master cylinder smaller cylinder required.
-Engine sits too high due to lack of sump clearance on front subframe
-Bonnet needs cutting due to height of engine
-Gearbox fouls high level chassis member
-Gearbox does not line up with prop
-If the above gearbox problems are overcome then the shifter wont fit
-Chassis wont take the power
This was my progress in 1 day on a gravel drive with my newly purchased engine hoist
It fits !
Bit messy but its in, loads of space for new rad and intercooler.
Plenty of clearance here, note the shiny new non fitting bolts as the old ones were left in the engine bay when the car was transported...
Brake pipes are **** but fit as are and will be lots of room when re-routed
Even the shifter is spot on. (doesn't line up 100% as no engine / gbox mounts made yet)
Even the bonnet fits, couldnt have done it without my faithful assistant tho :wack::thumbs:
Not pictured but theres even a chance that the Nissan KA prop shaft is going to bolt straight up to my ford diff and be the right length. Held it up under the car and the pcd on the diff flange appears to match up but it might be 10mm to short. We will see.
The only issue I have found so far is that the external waste gate wont fit as is, I might be able to squeeze it on by clocking the housing around a bit but we'll see. Other than that its all good.
Next jobs are to lift it back out again so I can grind off the old engine mounts which are welded to the chassis, make up some new mounts (which will lift the engine about 5-10mm as currently resting on the subframe and then its just wiring and plumbing. I might actually have this thing back on the road by Christmas.
Turbo is a T3/T04E .60 A/R
Also I have found somebody with the same chassis as me running a tuned YB engine on the Hillclimbs so I should be okay chassis wise
Thanks to everybody who read that massive essay :smash: