![]() The standard Nissan manifold does fit as well. ![]() There is now a dummy engine sat in the car with some very motivating GSXR600 SRAD carbs bolted on for good measure. I will probably be going with Nodiz.Ī little more had to be cut from the bellhousing but the sensor can be replaced in the car.Īnd a belt route was decided upon which gives decent wrap around all of the wheels. Handily the facelift CG flywheel has a 60-2 tooth pattern built in which will work with most ignition ECUs. The bleed screw is also in the original position.ĭue to a lack of clearance front and back it is not possible to run the original Nissan distributor or fit a 36-1 trigger wheel to the crankshaft damper for Megajolt so I have put a trigger wheel on the adaptor plate. This adaptor bolts in place of the original slave cylinder and accepts the original pipework. This is a laser cut ally plate sat on risers which replace the nuts holding the front cover on. As I said early on it is my intention to get this to the stage that it could be sold as a kit so I am having to work a little harder to keep the number of custom or modified parts to a minimum and design them so they can be either made cheaply or very easily with basic tools.įirst up is the clutch release bearing, the idea shamelessly aping kevins setup but with a Ford slave. Since the last post I have been slowly working away at sorting out the little bits and pieces that I wasn't happy with to make the conversion as simple as possible. Well an update is now well overdue on this project. I am tied up with birthdays, family visits and life stuff for the next few weekends but should be able to fit the engine fairly soon, hopefully looking a bit like this… I had made a mistake with the basic conversion using the original fork which meant that it wasn’t engaging properly so we didn’t get to fit the engine and called it a day. We were also able to check that the starter was engaging properly but were ultimately defeated by the clutch release. This was pretty successful which everything fitting. Today was spent pulling the old gearbox and readying the new engine and box for fitting. I am very pleased the quality and the price is good. The mounts are prototypes from a potential production supplier if there is any demand for the kit. This revealed an unbelievable amount of road muck, oil, lost fasteners and a large spec crying out for some Nissan goodness. My good buddy drdantastic then came by with an engine crane and this happened… I took Friday off work because of life / house stuff etc needing doing and was blessed with good weather so pushed the Midget out and finished the last few jobs needed to pull the old engine. ![]() So some fairly major steps have been taken over the last two days! ![]() Failing that I also rather like the idea of a belt driven distributor, Cosworth BDC injection style! I am running a Motorsport Electronics ME221 on my supercharger MX5 daily and am very happy with it so am considering their NODIZ system but am also tempted by the much more financially friendly Speedunio. My thoughts are currently leaning towards ditching the Megajolt in favour of another standalone ignition ECU that can utilise the 60-2 trigger already machined into the flywheel from the factory. This leaves me with no space for a trigger wheel if I am to keep the factory timing marks on the pulley. With the pulley cut down it will fit but I will have to trim down the bolt as well. For some reason I didn’t take this into account when designing the mounts etc which has left me with very little clearance for the crank pulley. The problem I have now is the front cross member. I don’t intend to sit in a lot of traffic in this car so I confident the bronze will be fine.Īnd it even fits. An Oilite bushing or a roller bearing would have been a nice touch but there isn’t enough wall thickness for a carrier. When accounting for the spacer plate there isn’t a lot of input shaft engagement in the crankshaft so I went for a top-hat arrangement in phosphor bronze. The size is consistent to a knat’s between both engines I have. I can only imagine that this was for manufacturing because it isn’t just roughed out. The Micra doesn’t run a spigot bearing at all but luckily the crankshaft is counterbored. Another day and another few steps closer.įirst on the list was the spigot bearing.
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