Hey Guys,
Building a 2005 RX8 with 102,000km that I picked up on the cheap in toronto for $2800 and immediately ripped it apart for the swap. Well, ended up buying a few duramax's which turned out to be insanely expensive and the car sat for about a year bouncing between garages until I could finally get to it.
Anyways, that time has come. Originally was going to do a single front mount TC78 turbo LS1 setup, but after some thought about what I really wanted from the car, i ditched the turbo plans and decided on a N/A setup for weight and balance concerns. Picked up a T56 in need of some TLC for $400, and have enough parts laying in the garage to build a pretty potent LS1.
I am going to fabricate everything for this car as I have much more time then money lol, Starting this thread so I can log my progress and help anyone else if need be, not going to get too much into the plans for it as there is a decent amount of skepticism towards these builds. Heres to hoping I can finish it lol.
The victim:
Pile of T56 guts, thankfully these are super easy to rebuild
Spinning Dorito coming out
Moved back to the garage to begin work again
Modified the strut tower to tuck the ABS block in, theres a nice gusset thats hidden behind the ABS block in his picture. Bracket is made for mockup purposes and is ugly AF
First test fit of the motor
Keeping things moving smoothly
After some mocking up of where I wanted the motor to sit, I determined I would need to do a notch into the subframe. I will be using a hydraulic steering rack for it, and will be fabricating the mounts for that as soon as it arrives!
Some parts arrived for fabricating the long tube headers, still waiting for more bends and collectors
The back of the drivers side head is pretty damn tight in regards to exhaust exit, I cut out some of the frame lip at the back by the firewall, welded it and smoothed it out for header clearance.
And idea of the motor positioning
Will continue to update this as I make progress, have been chipping away at it bit by bit after work, need to have it ready for when the snow melts at the end of april :beerchug:
Building a 2005 RX8 with 102,000km that I picked up on the cheap in toronto for $2800 and immediately ripped it apart for the swap. Well, ended up buying a few duramax's which turned out to be insanely expensive and the car sat for about a year bouncing between garages until I could finally get to it.
Anyways, that time has come. Originally was going to do a single front mount TC78 turbo LS1 setup, but after some thought about what I really wanted from the car, i ditched the turbo plans and decided on a N/A setup for weight and balance concerns. Picked up a T56 in need of some TLC for $400, and have enough parts laying in the garage to build a pretty potent LS1.
I am going to fabricate everything for this car as I have much more time then money lol, Starting this thread so I can log my progress and help anyone else if need be, not going to get too much into the plans for it as there is a decent amount of skepticism towards these builds. Heres to hoping I can finish it lol.
The victim:
Pile of T56 guts, thankfully these are super easy to rebuild
Spinning Dorito coming out
Moved back to the garage to begin work again
Modified the strut tower to tuck the ABS block in, theres a nice gusset thats hidden behind the ABS block in his picture. Bracket is made for mockup purposes and is ugly AF
First test fit of the motor
Keeping things moving smoothly
After some mocking up of where I wanted the motor to sit, I determined I would need to do a notch into the subframe. I will be using a hydraulic steering rack for it, and will be fabricating the mounts for that as soon as it arrives!
Some parts arrived for fabricating the long tube headers, still waiting for more bends and collectors
The back of the drivers side head is pretty damn tight in regards to exhaust exit, I cut out some of the frame lip at the back by the firewall, welded it and smoothed it out for header clearance.
And idea of the motor positioning
Will continue to update this as I make progress, have been chipping away at it bit by bit after work, need to have it ready for when the snow melts at the end of april :beerchug:
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