Hi folks.
Well I've pulled my finger out and got myself membership of SXOC so I won't be loading up ekjim's Anglia project with my posts.
An idea spawned a bit over a year ago to modify my classic 1967 Alfa GT stepnose into the car I alway have wanted it to be. Pretty classic lines but something interesting to make it go faster. There have been many transplant projects including twin sparks, V6 etc. To get any real power you have to spend big bucks and the gearbox is the weakest link. Anyhow I stumbled across a transplant that a Greek fellow living in Austrailia had done (SR20DET into a 1973 bertone). Everything looked so right under the bonnet and there was a tentative link between Nissan and Alfa (Alfa Arna was basically a joint Alfa / Nissan project) so that maintains the heritage link
Any how thats the background and my plan was to do the full conversion for under £2k. Well that went out of the window but more on that later. At last years Montee Historique in Laon France I was chatting to one of the guys from PPC mag and after a few beers made the ambitious claim that I would return in 2011 in my turbo Alfa. hmmm
So onto the pics.
Already done quite a few modifications including uprated suspension, LSD rear axle and new wheels. Off to Peterborough to buy the donor a late S14 with a big battle scar from losing it in the snow. I had done a bit of research on SXOC and had my mechanic mate Tom with me and the car whilst cosmetically a bit sad ran well with no knocks or rattles.
Next Tom and I pull the engine out of each car.
and out of the Alfa
Engines look very similar in dimensions
I was aware that the transmission tunnel would be way too narrow for the Alfa box and so I would need to have it remade.
More to follow...
- Jim