Re: Project Christine slo Hackensteinberg
Posted: Sat Apr 02, 2016 10:01 am
This project isn't a sure thing yet, but I'm considering it a whole lot more seriously than I have in the past.
I spent the rest of yesterday googling and I feel a little better about mounting. I found at least one example where someone did it in my style, apparently no budget and lame skills, quite successfully - he even has added a turbo (so it's handling a ton more power) and put 15,000 miles in 2.5 years with no indication that he has replaced his cow-style hack mounts with a commercial or professionally-fabricated improvement:
http://ls1tech.com/forums/conversions-h ... ost9412333
Not sure if the image will embed, but:
Basically there's nothing much to it, just a flat plate with some bolts (countersunk if you want it to be pretty, or not countersunk if it is to be hacky like that guy's was and mine will be) and it may just mount right up to existing mounts or may need me to relocate them a bit...his original engine was not the same as mine even though his frame is.
Of course I also feel a little worse about other things...
The V8 demands a stronger transmission. I could get a 5 speed from a V8 pickup at the junkyard. I really really want a T56 but its shifter location would sprout right through my bench seat. There is an "inspection cover" over the internal shift rod in a decent spot at the front of the tailhousing where it meets the main housing, which I suspect was really just leftover in the design or a modified casting mold, or maybe they originally planned for front shifters too.
Anyway, there is a front shifter relocation modification where you cut the rod and install a thingy:
The thingy is expensive. However, it looks an awful lot like the OEM thingy in the T5. I wonder if I can hack/adapt it. Else, an external relocation might be possible. I have a T5 offset shifter assembly (which I'm not using) that might be adapted, or perhaps a rod linkage might be possible. Still I prefer to have the shifter be more direct and less complex if possible. I might have to start trolling junkyards for a T56 for experimentation purposes.
There are other issues that have me concerned but this post is getting too long.
In my bookmarks from the last time I looked at this project I found this thread with excellent photos of the frame, engine bay, and car fully disassembled...and, using Chrome, entertaining translations from Russian:
http://freedomcars.ru/iboard/index.php?showtopic=54989
Now there's someone with the skills and motivation to do a beautiful job despite being severely disadvantaged in resources!
I wonder how it turned out. The thread lacks closure. Edit: No it doesn't, and here's why I originally found it...he put in a 5.3 too: http://ls1tech.com/forums/conversions-h ... st18217176
Edit edit: No, wait...he popped up and disappeared there, without closure. I should see if I can make contact.
I spent the rest of yesterday googling and I feel a little better about mounting. I found at least one example where someone did it in my style, apparently no budget and lame skills, quite successfully - he even has added a turbo (so it's handling a ton more power) and put 15,000 miles in 2.5 years with no indication that he has replaced his cow-style hack mounts with a commercial or professionally-fabricated improvement:
http://ls1tech.com/forums/conversions-h ... ost9412333
Not sure if the image will embed, but:
Basically there's nothing much to it, just a flat plate with some bolts (countersunk if you want it to be pretty, or not countersunk if it is to be hacky like that guy's was and mine will be) and it may just mount right up to existing mounts or may need me to relocate them a bit...his original engine was not the same as mine even though his frame is.
Of course I also feel a little worse about other things...
The V8 demands a stronger transmission. I could get a 5 speed from a V8 pickup at the junkyard. I really really want a T56 but its shifter location would sprout right through my bench seat. There is an "inspection cover" over the internal shift rod in a decent spot at the front of the tailhousing where it meets the main housing, which I suspect was really just leftover in the design or a modified casting mold, or maybe they originally planned for front shifters too.
Anyway, there is a front shifter relocation modification where you cut the rod and install a thingy:
The thingy is expensive. However, it looks an awful lot like the OEM thingy in the T5. I wonder if I can hack/adapt it. Else, an external relocation might be possible. I have a T5 offset shifter assembly (which I'm not using) that might be adapted, or perhaps a rod linkage might be possible. Still I prefer to have the shifter be more direct and less complex if possible. I might have to start trolling junkyards for a T56 for experimentation purposes.
There are other issues that have me concerned but this post is getting too long.
In my bookmarks from the last time I looked at this project I found this thread with excellent photos of the frame, engine bay, and car fully disassembled...and, using Chrome, entertaining translations from Russian:
http://freedomcars.ru/iboard/index.php?showtopic=54989
Now there's someone with the skills and motivation to do a beautiful job despite being severely disadvantaged in resources!
I wonder how it turned out. The thread lacks closure. Edit: No it doesn't, and here's why I originally found it...he put in a 5.3 too: http://ls1tech.com/forums/conversions-h ... st18217176
Edit edit: No, wait...he popped up and disappeared there, without closure. I should see if I can make contact.