tire killing machine z32 drift car vh inside

[mongooze]

Tire Killing Machine

Finally got a Daily here it is



Time has come to put the Z under the knife and make it a real drift car. TRYING to make it formula d pro am Atlanta this year, time is ticking and I got a lot of work to do so we shall see what happens.

Current car mods, blah blah all the regular stuff, the lastest cool thing was a Reinforced sub frame w bushings from PBM, solid diff bushings, project mu ebrake shoes (which work awesome hydros are laaame) and urethane bushings for the rear uprights.



Current plans-

VH V8 swap, FD spec roll cage and some small stuff along the way.



Current Progress- gutting interior, stitch welding, Planning out cage, Pulling out gay a** VG engine, Custom Fender Braces, Port matching




















Header flanges



Clearance



Engine mount base plates





Copying the plate ( why do you ask?) because I have the ability to and when I’m done I can have a plate for the ¼ of the price.



As soon as I finish making the plate I’ll put the engine and trans in and start making the motor mounts, headers, and figure out oil pan clearance.

[Bonezz]

Badass! Keep us updated, id love to see this thing tearing up road atlanta!

[Yellow4g63]

Aren't you going to be down on power?

[kingkilburn]

Why would he be down on power? The VG30DE only puts down 220hp at best. The VH is going to make that much just off idle.

[mongooze]

Aren't you going to be down on power?

for what rd atl? no people have done it with 200whp.

the na has 175 whp and the old turbo motor makes 300+whp

BUT I'll make 300whp AND 250+ torque so id have more torque than a vg30tt, balances out. Plus I have a top secret plan for it.

[mongooze]

Plates done! That was fun…

cut


bolted


welded


shaved


Final welded


Machined






Box O bends
1 5/8 Universal header kit



Paint



Port matched exhaust manifolds





In the hole.



Next up is well everything lol

cross member/oil pan modify, headers,/exhaust, mounts, hood, wiring etc.

[klh6686]

Looking great man!

[Midwest_240sx]

Good work bro. How much would you charge for a mounting plate for the vh to vg transmission? I don't want to pay like 400 for the mazworx. Thank you.

[mongooze]

Good work bro. How much would you charge for a mounting plate for the vh to vg transmission? I don't want to pay like 400 for the mazworx. Thank you.

IM not reproducing, I did it to save myself $400, its alot of labor, pay the 400 its worth every penny.

[mongooze]

somehow the hood actually clears, all I did was remove some of the inner skin, no s*** hood scoop required.

still have alot to do but this is more or less on how it will be.

[flyingbrick]

looks great man! keep up the good work.

[Carl H]

the blue vc's really make the engine pop!

[mongooze]

Had some time in the daylight to snap some pics lol usually work at it at night so I was never able to take some shots.









Had some paparazzi too







working on the motor mounts



Helped a friend do some door bars on my downtime.

[flyingbrick]

He is spraying sparks all over your bonnet.......and windscreen

Good help is hard to find.

[AZhitman]

Oh HELL yeah.

DO LIKE.

VH is so underrated. You're gonna LOVE the sound of a VH through open headers... such a sexy sound.

[mongooze]

What’s new?!

Hacked up k member



Motor mounts






Collectors



Header work starting now.

Sneaky peak at angle n stuff









Im going to redo that lower pipe that hangs all low, I don’t like the way it looks lol

that’s it for now, headers are mocked up just need to finish em, then figure out my other million clearance issues.

[Carl H]

fluxcore welder on engine mount plates?
i'd go back and grind the welds down and mig it with gas or tig...those welds look like alot of spatter and porosity.
are you going to reinforce the xmember any as you removed quite a bit out of it?

[mongooze]

the mounts are fine, theyre not going anywhere.

the members plated front, back and side.

[mongooze]

update tyyme, update tyyymeee!!!


Im changing some things around, I'm raising the motor and pushing it back some more,
I'm redoing the motor mounts and headers, the motor sat too far down and too far forward to my liking, if I'm gonna do it I'm gonna do it right.

but in the meantime the car is going somewhere for something.....

[mongooze]

Something is a stirring...

[mongooze]

Again I'm not happy with the way the engine sits
I'm currently redesigning the mounts to pull the motor back 2 inches and up 1 inch, also going to call in some reinforcements and do a rear sump oil pan.

[klh6686]

looks interesting, keep us updated!

[mongooze]

do over.



new mounts, bringing the engine back 2 inches.



extended trans member.

[mongooze]

before

after

before

after



like a boss

[Madhatter969]

not gonna lie... f*** love this build.