With the help of mtcookson, he loaned me a Dixon adapter plate that I can use to copy and remake. My design will be much thinner, requiring a small spacer for the flywheel BUT will not move the mount back a mile like it does with the dixon plate.

The dixon plate is about 1inch thick made out of aluminum. my design will be about 1/4in or less.

Right now, the plate has been traced... This weekend I will draw it up on the computer (or maybe sooner depending how antsy I get) .

My idea is to make a plate that is cheaper than the mazworx one, requires no bellhousing modifications (better for international shippers), and will not push the transmission back requiring extensive modifications to the mount....

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Let me know and I can put money down! Or if you are willing to sell the drawings I've got access to a full machine shop here at Colorado State.

Once I secure my hardware its just a matter of getting the plate made which im working on right now....

Im hoping in 1-2 months I have a complete plate shipped to someone. It all depends on how long my hardware takes to come in because that is going to be the limiting factor... The plate and the spacer should only take me an afternoon to draw up.

VH45DE to 300ZX 5 speed trans.

http://forums.nicoclub.com/zerothread?id=176029

Again, if this doesn't make sense, I am working off of pics and memory: I have the dixon adapter but no VH45DE yet.

I dont think I will need to have the engine plate there, im not even sure what it does. We'll see what happens when im done...

The dixon plate should bolt directly onto the motor. It has the holes on the bottom for the bracket for the lower holes, but I dont think you need the engine plate there.

The key to remember here is that the stresses on the plate are torsional. So as long as you put dowel holes for the factory dowel pins in the block, the put dowel pins in the plate for the transmission you will be fine.

That is sort of the point (along with others) to use steel instead of alumium... Generally speaking steel has a higher yield strength and lower cost, at the expense of weight and elastic modulus to a certain extent.. Weight really isnt a huge factor in this since it is not rotational.

I thought you told me the mazworx plate is about 14mm thick, im hoping mine is about half that at 7mm or less... Not a huge difference but notable.

I mean, such a thin spacer (think like 2 washers thick) cant hardly make a difference...

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Ive found my ULTRA hard to find M14x1.5P countersunk screws that are basically impossible to find. A guy from australia (thanks JASON!!!) hooked it up and is basically going to make this project materialize much easier.

I think my month deadline is going to be met fairly easy.

Theyre the screws used to mount the plate (or trans) to the motor. Ive triple verified thats the correct pitch and size.

Im looking at about 30mm thread length.

If it means I get one quicker I am all for helping you out lol

I actually verified all the details of the bolts myself aswell. I dropped into a local wrecker/importer and actually removed a bolt from the back of a VH45DE and measured it first hand with vernier calipers and checked the thread using a pitch gauge.

Then liasing with Wes we come to the correct size conclusion and I ordered the bolts today. 100 bolts will be ready in two weeks and you guys should have them within 5 days or so from then.

Its all up to Wes now to get moving with the templates and CNC machining

Ive had basically 0 free time lately which is why I dont have the plate drawn.

Any idea how long it is going to be until you've got time to draw it up? Not trying to rush you but if it's going to be a while, what if we had it sent out for someone to draw up or even to a shop that can scan it into their computer in about 30 seconds? I would really like to get my hands on one of these fairly soon since my engine should be done in the next week or two.

Sounds like hardware may be another difficulty though unless you've already sourced that. Let me know if there's anything I can do to help!

Thanks a bunch for doing this.

I expect the hard to get M14 bolts to be ready this friday at the earliest (currently Monday 10th at 10.55pm here in Australia) Worst case maybe early next week.

Will maybe take another 5 days or so to get to Wes

Anyway, im shooting for wednesday or thursday to get this bad baby drawn up. today and tomorrow are gonna be NUTS.

WHAT I DO NEED TO KNOW: The diamater of a stock TWIN TURBO flywheel. I have to make some modifications so I need to know how big that bugger is.

Those guys are saying that nearly every Nissan clutch is interchangable (from what I'm reading) and seems that nearly everything comes with either a 240 or 250mm clutch. The guy starting the thread claimed that the overall diameter of the flywheel stays the same with either a 240 or 250mm clutch.

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3. The NA and TT have the same 5 speed transmission model #, same splines on input and output shafts, etc. and the housings are the same except for one small difference. The spot where the starter mounts on the bellhousing on the TT is machined a little differently so that the starter will properly engage the slightly larger diameter flywheel and so that the flywheel teeth won’t scrape the inside of the bellhousing. You can use an NA 5 speed in a TT but you just have to shim the starter out a little with some flat washers and sometimes grind a little out of the inside of the bellhousing so the TT flywheel will fit inside. If trying to use a TT trans in an NA you would either have to grind down where the starter mounts so that it could engage the smaller NA flywheel or just use the TT flywheel, which could be used with TT or NA clutch. The automatic transmission is different for a TT, but the NA auto would still fit in place behind the TT engine. Although, they are different lengths and you would have to use the corresponding driveshaft. Both autos are geared virtually the same but the TT one is built for heavier duty.

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